The family of Shamima Begum have pleaded for an 'act of mercy' from the Home Office and begged Sajid Javid to reconsider his decision to strip the 19-year-old of her British citizenship.
A lawyer representing the family has written to the Home Secretary and urged him to reverse the move following the death of the teenager's new-born son.
It comes after the father of the ISIS bride apologised for her joining the group and is pleading with the British Government to allow her back into the country.
Ms Begum travelled to Syria when she was aged 15 in February 2015, with two other schoolgirls, so she could join the terror group.
Ms Begum's son Jerah died aged 18 days old on Thursday after suffering pneumonia in a refugee camp in northern Syria.
The family of ISIS bride Shamima Begum, pictured, have written a letter to the Home Secretary asking for 'an act of mercy' to allow her to return to the UK following the death of her new-born son. Sajid Javid recently stripped her of her British nationality for joining ISIS in 2015
It comes after her father Ahmed Ali, pictured, begged the Government to let her come home and apologised for her actions
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has faced renewed criticism for stripping Ms Begum's citizenship since the death of Jerah
According to the letter, seen by Sky News, the family say they have still not been able to contact Shamima directly and added it is 'extremely unlikely she is in a fit state to make rational decisions'.
The family's lawyer Tasnime Akunjee, told Sky: 'Following the tragic and entirely avoidable death of Shamima Begum's son, we have written to the Home Secretary requesting that he reconsider his original decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.
'We do this on behalf of Ms Begum's family in an urgent bid to avoid further tragedy.'
Ahmed Ali, 60, said his daughter, now 19, 'did wrong' by joining the group but did so 'without realising it' because she was 'under age'.
Mr Ali called for the government to 'take her back and punish her if she had done any mistake'.
He made the comments before discovering his grandson had died.
Speaking to the BBC in north-eastern Bangladesh, Mr Ali said: 'She has done wrong, I apologise to everyone as her father, to the British people.
'I am sorry for Shamima's doing. I request to the British people, please forgive her.'
He continued: 'She was under age at that time, she couldn't understand that much. I suppose someone influenced her to do that.
'I admit that she might have done wrong without realising it.'
Earlier this month Ms Begum said she wanted to return to the UK with Jerah in an interview with Sky News, which took place at the Al-Hawl refugee camp.
She was moved to Roj this month from the Al-Hawl refugee camp after she was threatened by other IS wives for revealing her face during Press interviews.
Ms Begum, from Bethnal Green in east London, was 15 when she and two other schoolgirls went to join the terror group in February 2015.
Aged 19 and heavily pregnant, she resurfaced in a refugee camp last month and said she wanted to return to Britain as the self-styled caliphate collapsed.
Her family announced the boy's birth on February 17 and said they believed he was 'in good health'.
Ms Begum said two of her other children had also died in Syria.
A Government spokesman said: 'The death of any child is tragic and deeply distressing for the family.
'The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has consistently advised against travel to Syria since April 2011.'
The Dutch husband of Ms Begum, Yago Riedijk, 27, joined when he was 15, and is being held in a Kurdish detention centre in north-eastern Syria
Home Secretary Sajid Javid has faced renewed criticism for stripping Ms Begum's citizenship since the death of Jerah.
Ms Begum's sister Renu previously wrote to the Home Secretary two weeks ago.
She wants to challenge Mr Javid's decision to strip Ms Begum of her British citizenship.
She said moving back to Britain was Ms Begum's 'only hope at rehabilitation'.
How ISIS bride was 'terrified' her infant son would die in camp
By Ian Birrell for the Mail on Sunday
Shamima Begum told me she was 'terrified' her baby son Jarrah would die when we met inside a Syrian refugee camp shortly after his birth three weeks ago.
Begum's two previous children also died. She said she had been traumatised to see one of them suffer from starvation before passing away and this drove her desire to return to Britain.
Jarrah's death was confirmed on Friday. He had been taken to hospital with breathing difficulties the previous day. The cause of death was pneumonia, according to a medical certificate.
Ian Birrell interviewed Shamima Begum at al-Hol camp two days after the birth of her son
When I interviewed Begum at al-Hol camp two days after his birth, she spoke of her fear that he might fall sick. 'I'm terrified he could die,' she said.
Dozens of children have died, often of pneumonia, while being ferried in bitterly cold and wet weather on flatback trucks out of Baghouz, the last pocket of the Islamic State's crumbling 'caliphate'. Many more have passed away inside the sprawling camp, which is struggling to handle the unexpectedly high numbers arriving. Al-Hol has doubled in size to 62,000 people in less than a month.
As a consequence, Begum and Jarrah were moved a week ago with some other female foreign recruits to Roj, a smaller camp near the Iraqi border.
The British teenager married Yago Riedijk, a Dutch fighter, ten days after arriving in IS's self-declared caliphate. Riedijk is in a nearby prison and has been told of Jarrah's death.
Another British woman at Roj told me last week many captives had paid for TVs in their tents and could watch the BBC.
'Some of the sisters have plasma screens since they say they will be here for a long time,' she said. She added that British intelligence officers had visited Roj to question some captives – yet Ministers claim they cannot risk officials' lives going into 'a failed state' to help return those being held.
Begum's defence of the 2017 Manchester terror attack, in which 22 people died at an Ariana Grande concert, led to her citizenship being revoked.
But camp officials, Kurdish politicians and Western security sources all told me this was the wrong decision.
One senior US security official said it was foolish to leave about 1,000 Western jihadi recruits in such a fragile region, with fears of fresh conflict breaking out, instead of taking them home and locking them up in prison or putting them under surveillance.
'It is better to keep these dogs of war on the leash than leave them somewhere they could be running wild off the leash in a few months' time,' the sou
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