Overview

• The 26-year-old briefly entered an interview room at the al-Roj detention camp in northeast Syria before declining questions and leaving.
• Reporters said her eyes looked sunken and she appeared very thin, with a surgical mask covering the lower half of her face.
• She arrived with American detainee Hoda Muthana during the short encounter with journalists.
• Begum has been stateless since the UK revoked her citizenship in 2019, a decision upheld through a final Supreme Court ruling in August 2024.
• Her lawyers argue the UK failed to secure the return of detained women and children and are preparing a case for the European Court of Human Rights.