Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has said the UK government is making an example of her by stripping her of citizenship and forbidding her return.
The teenager, who fled London aged 15 to join Islamic State’s self-proclaimed caliphate in Syria, also said that she regrets giving interviews about her plans.
It comes after Begum said she wants to return to the UK with her newborn son – and will not travel without him.
Ms Begum, who had her British citizenship revoked by Sajid Javid, was one of three schoolgirls to leave Bethnal Green to join the terror cult in 2015 and resurfaced heavily pregnant at a Syrian refugee camp last week.
Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph from the al-Hol camp in Syria, Ms Begum said: They are making an example of me. I regret speaking to the media. I wish I had stayed low and found a different way to contact my family. That’s why I spoke to the newspaper.
The Home Secretary revoked Ms Begum’s British citizenship in a move only permissible under international law if it does not leave the individual stateless.
It was speculated that Ms Begum, who is of Bangladeshi heritage, may have citizenship there but Bangladesh’s minister of state for foreign affairs Shahriar Alam denied this.
Her family have written to the Home Secretary asking for his help to bring her newborn son to Britain.
The letter to Sajid Javid said the baby boy was a true innocent who should not ‘lose the privilege of being raised in the safety of this country’.
Her sister Remu Begum, writing on behalf of the family, asked how they could help the Home Secretary in bringing my nephew home to us.
The family said they have had no contact with Ms Begum and had only learned she had given birth to a boy through media reports.
They made clear that they were ‘shocked and appalled’ at the vile comments Ms Begum had recently made to the media.
Mr Javid’s removal of her citizenship came amid heated debate over whether the teenager should be able to return to the UK after she was found in a Syrian refugee camp with the terror group’s reign nearly over.
While many do not want to see Ms Begum return to the UK, others have argued she should face prosecution for her actions, and attempts at deradicalisation.
The Begum family’s lawyer Tasnime Akunjee said she was born in the UK, has never had a Bangladeshi passport and is not a dual citizen, which was confirmed by the Bangladeshi minister.
The news comes as Begum’s own father dramatically told The Mail on Sunday that he backs Home Secretary Sajid Javid’s decision to strip his daughter of her British citizenship.
Speaking to the media for the first time, Ahmed Ali, 60, said: I know they [the British Government] don’t want to take her back, and in this I don’t have a problem.
I know she is stuck there [in Syria] but that’s because she has done actions that made her get stuck like this.
As well as handling Begum’s case Home Office officials are grappling with that of Muslim convert Jack Letts- dubbed Jihadi Jack – who became the first white Briton to join ISIS.