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January 6, 2019 3:42 pm
Updated: January 7, 2019 7:52 am
Saudi woman, 18, detained at Thai airport, fears she will be killed if deported home
By Rahul Kalvapalle National Online Journalist Global News
An 18-year-old Saudi woman says she has been detained at Thailand?s main international airport at the behest of Saudi authorities who want to stop her from fleeing to Australia.
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun began tweeting about her ordeal from Bangkok?s Suvarnabhumi Airport in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 6.
She said her passport was confiscated at the airport even though she possessed the necessary travel documents to travel on to Australia.
?I?m in real danger because the Saudi embassy trying to forcing [sic] me to go back to Saudi Arabia, while I?m at the airport waiting for my second flight,? she said in one of her first tweets...
...Human Rights Watch (HRW) has backed up Rahaf?s story.
The NGO?s deputy director for the Asia region, Phil Robertson, confirmed to Global News that he was in contact with Rahaf and believed her story is credible.
Speaking to Global News via text from an airport hotel room where she said she was being held, Rahaf said she fled the Middle East to get away from her abusive Saudi family.
She said she was subjected to beatings by male relatives, who at one point kept her locked up in her bedroom for six months because she cut her hair...
January 6, 2019 3:42 pm
Updated: January 7, 2019 7:52 am
Saudi woman, 18, detained at Thai airport, fears she will be killed if deported home
By Rahul Kalvapalle National Online Journalist Global News
An 18-year-old Saudi woman says she has been detained at Thailand?s main international airport at the behest of Saudi authorities who want to stop her from fleeing to Australia.
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun began tweeting about her ordeal from Bangkok?s Suvarnabhumi Airport in the early hours of Sunday, Jan. 6.
She said her passport was confiscated at the airport even though she possessed the necessary travel documents to travel on to Australia.
?I?m in real danger because the Saudi embassy trying to forcing [sic] me to go back to Saudi Arabia, while I?m at the airport waiting for my second flight,? she said in one of her first tweets...
...Human Rights Watch (HRW) has backed up Rahaf?s story.
The NGO?s deputy director for the Asia region, Phil Robertson, confirmed to Global News that he was in contact with Rahaf and believed her story is credible.
Speaking to Global News via text from an airport hotel room where she said she was being held, Rahaf said she fled the Middle East to get away from her abusive Saudi family.
She said she was subjected to beatings by male relatives, who at one point kept her locked up in her bedroom for six months because she cut her hair...
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