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The Times interview Shamima Begum: Bethnel Green girl who went to live under ISIS

14th February 2019

In an exclusive interview with The Times, journalist Anthony Loyd interviewed Shamima Begum, one of the Bethnal Green schoolgirls who fled to Syria in 2014 to live under ISIS’ self-proclaimed caliphate.

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