Introducing… The Shamima Begum Story
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Investigating the story of Shamima Begum. At 15, she ran away from her London home with two school friends to join the terror group ISIS in war torn Syria. Now she wants to come back. It’s a tale that has gripped the world, but there are different ways to tell it.
Josh Baker has been following the story since 2015 when Shamima Begum left for the Islamic State group. For Series 2 of I’m Not a Monster he investigates what really happened.
ARCHIVE:
CNN: Three British Girls Run Away to Syria (2015)
Sky News: Newspaper Review (13/02/2019)
ITV: Good Morning Britain (24/11/2020)
Fox News; The Ingraham Angle (20/02/2019)
ITV: Good Morning Britain (15/09/2021)
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Nine years to the day since Shamima Begum entered ISIS controlled Syria, she’ll find out whether she’s any closer to coming back to Britain. Josh is at the Royal Courts of Justice in central London to hear whether Begum’s lawyers have succeeded in arguing that the British government’s decision to...
Published 02/23/24
Published 02/23/24
Josh answers your questions about Shamima Begum and the making of the multi-award winning series.
Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC’s Radio Theatre in London, Naga Munchetty puts your questions to Josh including: what is it about this story that captures the imagination and curiosity...
Published 11/29/23
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