Shamima Begum is a victim of trafficking – and the UK should treat her as such | Maya Foa

It is much easier to deprive someone of their citizenship and rights when they have been reduced to a caricature

• Maya Foa is the director of the human rights charity Reprieve

Today's supreme court judgment in Shamima Begum's case offers little resolution to an issue our government wishes would go away. While the court deferred to the home secretary's decision to bar Begum from returning to Britain, it offered no solution to the intractable problem of her continued detention in a dangerous and unstable Kurdish-run camp in Syria. Right now, the government's solution" is to take no action and hope the issue goes away, but it will not.

I have been to Camp Roj twice, and have seen its inhumane reality. Those living in its rows of tents patrolled by men with guns are mostly children, and include British citizens who our government would rather ignore.