An 18 year old Saudi woman is being detained at the Bangkok airport, terrified she'll be sent back

[octoberlib]

A Saudi woman who is being held in Bangkok after trying to escape her abusive family has told of her terror that she will be killed if she is deported as planned in a few hours.Rahaf Mohammed al Qunun, 18, has been trapped in the airport since arriving at 4am GMT on Sunday.

She intended to reach Australia and apply for asylum but a Saudi official in the Thai airport confiscated her passport after her father reported her for travelling without her male 'guardian'. He claimed she was mentally ill but failed to provide any evidence.
Rahaf is due to be escorted on to the 11.15am (4.15am GMT) Kuwait Airways flight 412 from Bangkok to Kuwait tomorrow morning.

She, her parents, and her six siblings live in Ha’il in Saudi Arabia, where her father works as a government official. She has suffered beatings and emotional abuse from her family, at one point being locked in her room for six months for cutting her hair. When they took a trip to visit family in Kuwait she made her escape, buying flights from Kuwait to Thailand and from Thailand to Australia with help from a friend, and taking a taxi to the airport at 4am after checking her father was asleep.

She said: ‘When I came to Thailand someone told me that he will help me to get a visa for Thailand in the airport. After that he took my passport. After one hour he came back with five or six people, I think they were police or something and then they told me my father is so angry and I must go back to Saudi Arabia. They know I ran away from him.'



https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6562169/Saudi-woman-trapped-Bangkok-airport-trying-flee-family-amid-fears-kill-her.html

Rahaf renounced Islam upon arriving in Bangkok which is punishable by death in Saudi Arabia.

Her video

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لكل الجهات المختصة اللتي باستطاعتها مساعدتي، I’m asking formally a protection from all Human rights organizations who could save me

5:57 PM - 6 Jan 2019

Link to tweet

Please help @TLHR2014 @sunaibkk I am in bangkok about to be forced on a flight back to Saudi where my life is in danger

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Because I was very afraid before, I forgot to mention that the Saudi Arabia's embassy also said to the Bangkok airport if they don't flee me back to Kuwait they will literally KIDNAP me.

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This isn’t 1st time airports have detained #Saudi women trying to escape. In 2017, Dina Ali Lasloom, 24, was held at #Manila airport until uncles came, beat her & dragged her onto a plane to #Riyadh her mouth taped shut & her arms & legs bound https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/24/opinion/why-saudi-women-are-literally-living-the-handmaids-tale.html … #SaveRahaf

[Ilsa]

1. I hope she can find a way to escape and

hopefully, get to an embassy or further away.

[octoberlib]

2. Her Twitter timeline makes me sad. She's been begging the UN and the US,UK,Germany, France

to help her. The Thais are siding with the Saudis.

[Volaris]

3. Our 'friends' The Saudis.

Smdh

[Meowmee]

4. I hope someone helps her nt

[smirkymonkey]

5. Oh god, I hope she makes it to safety.

I feel so terrible for these poor young Saudi women. Their lives are hellish.

[uppityperson]

6. K&R, makes me sick

[oberliner]

7. What do you think will happen?

[octoberlib]

9. Thai authorities were trying to put her on

Kuwait Air flight 412 but she ‘s not on it and just tweeted from her room. Apparently, some Thai lawyers have filed an injunction to stop her deportation.

Link to tweet

?s=21



Dina Hasloom, another Saudi woman who was forced back to SA has never been seen again. The comments on Twitter from Rahaf’s cousin and other SA men are atrocious. Threatening to slaughter her and behead her in the public square in accordance with sharia’a law.


Even if she’s granted asylum somewhere , she’ll still be in danger unless she has protection.

[oberliner]

10. Thanks for the update

Hopefully things turn out OK for her in the end.