Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA British woman who is alleged to have travelled to Syria to join ISIS could win back her UK citizenship after a court has ruled that it would be ‘unjust’ not to give her more time to plead her case from one of Syria’s largest detention camps.Former Home Secretary Amber Rudd deemed the woman a risk to national security for her allegiance to the Islamic terror state ISIS after she left her home in Tower Hamlets, London, in December 2014.She is currently being held in the Al Roj camp in Syria, containing 2,500 people, including ISIS bride Shamima Begum.But the woman – who was a dual British and Pakistani national – has been given an opportunity to fight to reclaim her UK citizenship after a ruling from judges in a Special Immigration Appeals Commission (SIAC) court.The SICA has ruled that the woman was not aware of the decision to strip her UK citizenship until she was in an ‘oppressive’ detention camp in Syria – by which point the deadline to challenge the decision had passed.The ruling comes amid fears about the security of both the Al Roj and Al Hol camps following the toppling of the Assad regime in Syria.Jihadi brides at the Al Hol camp – where the woman and her children were also held – last month told reporters ‘soon we’ll be free and ISIS will be revived’ as Syrian prison camp guards admitted the 40,000 inmates are on verge of freedom and Islamic State could return.According to the SIAC, the woman’s poor health and the ‘appalling’ camp conditions amounted to ‘special circumstances’ that meant it was ‘unrealistic’ to expect her to mount a legal challenge within the 28-day appeal window, according to the SIAC. A British woman who is alleged to have travelled to Syria to join ISIS could win back her UK citizenship after a court has ruled that it would be ‘unjust’ not to give her more time to plead her case She is currently being held in the Al Roj camp in Syria, containing 2,500 people, including ISIS bride Shamima Begum (pictured) ISIS bride Shamima Begum last year lost her final appeal against the government’s decision to rescind her British citizenshipThe letter stripping her UK citizenship was sent to the woman’s former address in Tower Hamlets in 2017 – but in 2016 counter-terrorism police had notified her family that they believed she had fled abroad with her husband and their three young children.In early 2019, the family were caught up in a major battle between ISIS terrorists and Syrian Democratic Forces in Baghuz, Syria.During the fighting, the woman, who has been granted anonymity by the courts, suffered a ‘significant’ head wound and her eldest child – aged eight – was killed.The woman and her remaining children were separated from her husband, and taken to the notorious Camp Al Hol, which is now home to around 40,000 primarily ISIS-linked women and their children, including almost 7,000 highly-radicalised foreigners.The woman was beaten by guards and now walks with crutches, according to court documents.In August 2020, the family was moved to Camp Al Roj.The camp is described as an ‘unsafe, inhumane, and violent place’, where mobile phones and meetings with aid workers are ‘severely restricted’, according to a British charity worker quoted in the SIAC documents. Camp Roj is one of several camps that has been holding families of individuals with alleged links to ISIL for the past five years, according to the UN (file photo) Begum abandoned her family in London ten years ago to join the Islamic State in Syria – a journey that made her the UK’s most infamous teenagerThey added: ‘The camp is lawless, violence between those who are detained is commonplace. Women are also afraid that if they start legal proceedings to return home they may be harmed by other detainees who consider returning home to be treachery.’The woman – who is referred to as F3 in legal documents – was supported to lodge an appeal by staff from the British legal charity Reprieve, who visited the woman twice across several months.The lack of communication and support, alongside the ‘the physically and mentally exhausting’ work of caring for her four children in camp, meant the woman’s opportunity to mount a legal fight sooner was ‘vanishingly small’, according to a SIAC judge.In the SIAC ruling, Mr Justice Swift said: ‘Drawing matters together, we are satisfied that F3’s detention in northern Syria, first in Camp Al Hoy and then Camp Al Roj, the conditions of that detention we have described, her ill health, and the need for her to support herself and her children in those conditions, provide special circumstances such that it would be unjust not to extend time for filing appeal until 19 August 2022, the date the appeal was filed.’
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