Shamima Begum: IS teen's return to UK 'could be prevented'

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1. George Osborne says UK government must let runaway ISIS teen return home

Source: CNBC

George Osborne says UK government must let runaway ISIS teen return home

• Shamima Begum who traveled to Syria to join ISIS when she in 2015 has been found in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
• The now 19-year-old says she wants to return to London but has so far expressed little remorse for leaving.
• The current U.K. Home Secretary has suggested he will refuse her entry back into the country.

David Reid
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The former finance minister of the United Kingdom told CNBC that the runaway schoolgirl who left Britain to join the so-called Islamic State should be allowed to return to the country.

Shamima Begum who traveled to Syria when she was 15 has been found in a refugee camp in northern Syria. Now 19, Begum is also heavily pregnant. In an interview carried out in the camp, Begum said she did not regret joining ISIS.

Adopting a tough tone Friday, the U.K. Home Secretary Sajid Javid said those who left the U.K. to join ISIS were "full of hate for our country" and that he "will not hesitate" to prevent the return of Britons who join the terror group.

Speaking at the Munich Security Conference Saturday, former U.K. Finance Minister George Osborne told CNBC's Hadley Gamble that the government should allow Begum to return.

"I don't think it is possible for Britain to say this is all someone else's problem (and that) we are going to leave them in some other part of the world or not allow them to enter the U.K.," he said.

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