The family of Shamima Begum have taken the Home Secretary to court, appealing the decision to strip the 19-year-old of her British citizenship.

Shamima Begum vanished from her home in Bethnal Green in London four years ago, along with two other teenage girls, and travelled to Syria where she married an Isil fighter from the Netherlands.

Home Secretary Sajid Javid stripped her of her citizenship just days after she gave birth to a baby boy, which died only three weeks later. It was the third child she lost in four years.

Now, according to The Guardian, an appeal against the decision to revoke her citizenship has been lodged with the Special Immigration Appeals Commission by Begum’s mother, while another challenge will be lodged with the high court on Thursday.

Tasnime Akunjee, the solicitor representing Begum’s family claims the government decision breaks several articles of the European Convention on Human Rights.