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The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is inspecting weapons found in an old Islamic State group position in Raqqa on October 7, 2017. REUTERS / Erik De Castro

Shamima Begum, a 19-year-old girl from Bethnal Green, a neighborhood in East London, was found by a Times reporter in a Syrian refugee camp. The girl asks to return to the UK.

With our correspondent in London , Marina Daras

Shamima Begum is one of three London schoolgirls party to join Syria in 2015. Her story is known throughout the UK. But the British government still does not know what to do with these citizens who have fled the country to pledge allegiance to the ISIS group .

The family wants the help of the government

Shamima's family has sought help from the government to repatriate their daughter who is about to give birth and claims the innocence of the child she is carrying. Shamima has already lost two children during the clashes in Raqqa.

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But the authorities' response is contradictory. On the one hand, Interior Minister Sajid Javid said he would do everything to block the girl's return. On the other, the Minister of Justice, David Gaucke, points out that the government can not create stateless people and must take responsibility for ensuring the safety of its people.

Supervised, even locked

Alex Younger, head of MI6, the British intelligence service, said on Friday that British citizens " have the right to return to the UK " but that they should be heavily monitored, or even jailed, upon their return.