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Saudi Woman 'trapped At Bangkok Airport Trying To Flee Family'

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naomi24 | 11:38 Sun 06th Jan 2019 | News
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//A young Saudi woman says she is stranded at Bangkok's main airport after fleeing her family and having her passport seized by a Saudi official.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun says she was on a trip to Kuwait with her family when she fled on a flight two days ago.

She was trying to head to Australia via a connecting flight in Bangkok.

She told the BBC that she had renounced Islam, and feared she would be forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia and killed by her family.

Thai police Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn told the BBC that Ms Mohammed al-Qunun was escaping a marriage. Because she did not have a visa to enter Thailand, he said police had denied her entry and were in the process of repatriating her through the same airline she had taken, Kuwait Airlines.

Gen Surachate said he was unaware of any passport seizure.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46773625

She says her passport was seized by a Saudi diplomat on arrival in Bangkok, but the Bangkok authorities weren't aware she had no passport - only that she had no visa which is why she was denied entry. Very odd.
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The latest: //Thailand officials said she will today be deported to Saudi Arabia - where renouncing Islam is punishable by death.//

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8132327/saudi-arabian-girl-stuck-bangkok-cant-go-home-parents/
Monsters the world over.
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2 minutes ago:

//"She has barricaded herself in the [hotel] room & says she will not leave" until she is allowed to meet the UN refugee agency and claim asylum, Human Rights Watch's deputy Asia director Phil Robertson said on Twitter.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46777848
Oh no...awful, poor lady.
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The situation is looking better.

//Thailand's immigration police chief says a Saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend will be given temporary entry to the country….. The Thai authorities said her status would be assessed by the UN refugee agency.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46777848
Thank God for that poor girl x
Been following this all night on twitter only went to bed when I knew she wasn't on flight Kuwait Airways KU 412

She's been tweeting throughout the night.
She must be terrified knowing that if they do get her on a flight to Saudi Arabia...she is dead.


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Brave girl.
12.38=13.35, See "CallMeDawg" has posted once again, operating key board before using Brain, that is if he has got one of course.
https://twitter.com/rahaf84427714/status/1082275701330345989


Imagine, your father turns up and your anxiety increases because of it.

If this girl is sent back to Saudi, I give up with the world.
Bring on the alien invasion.
Oh God, not her father....
With the eyes of the world on this story, let's hope for a victorious outcome.
Does a Saudi official have any right to take her passport off her? (i assume not)

Anyone is an idiot for giving their passport to absolutely anyone apart from boarder control at the airport.
So she's an idiot...Spath.

No official in a far off land would mess with the Spath and take his passport of him... no siree. :0/
I'd tell them to get me a person from Riyahd's British Embassy

Also, if they refused, then they are going against royal prerogative, which is exercised by Her Majesty's Government.
So IMO, the queen would have my back.
Spath, if you refused an officials request for your passport, you would be waiting for an embassy rep whiling your time away in the local gaol.
Safe for now, there's hope.
Awesome news Talbot x

Spath how much travelling have you actually done?

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