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Saudi Woman 'trapped At Bangkok Airport Trying To Flee Family'
//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.//
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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.
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.//
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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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My understanding is that a Passport is not the property of a passport holder but of the government that issued it, therefore a Saudi Official might very well have been perfectly within their rights to confiscate it if they had cancelled it or he had been acting upon embassy instructions spath, and you wouldn't still have your passport if you were in prison they would confiscate it there too, that's crazy thinking.
saudi rules have no gravity in bankock. They are saudi rules..
""It seems that the Thai government is manufacturing a story that she tried to apply for a visa and it was denied... in fact, she had an onward ticket to go to Australia, she didn't want to enter Thailand in the first place."
He argued that the Thai authorities had clearly co-operated with Saudi Arabia as Saudi officials were able to met the plane when it arrived."
The whole thing is illegal an wrong. I would have never give my passport to anyone apart from the boarder force.
Another issue is saudi doesn't allow people to go to thailand. Only business men due tot he blue diamond affair.
Kval that may be true, even still you'd be barmy to give up your passport to anyone outside of the UK.
""It seems that the Thai government is manufacturing a story that she tried to apply for a visa and it was denied... in fact, she had an onward ticket to go to Australia, she didn't want to enter Thailand in the first place."
He argued that the Thai authorities had clearly co-operated with Saudi Arabia as Saudi officials were able to met the plane when it arrived."
The whole thing is illegal an wrong. I would have never give my passport to anyone apart from the boarder force.
Another issue is saudi doesn't allow people to go to thailand. Only business men due tot he blue diamond affair.
Kval that may be true, even still you'd be barmy to give up your passport to anyone outside of the UK.
Crikey this is like drawing teeth.
I imagine she handed her passport to a Thai official who gave it to a Saudi official who then kept it on orders from either the Saudi Government or Embassy- doesn't take a genius to work out, but either way if SA cancelled her passport it would be useless to her whether she physically has it in her possession or not.
I imagine she handed her passport to a Thai official who gave it to a Saudi official who then kept it on orders from either the Saudi Government or Embassy- doesn't take a genius to work out, but either way if SA cancelled her passport it would be useless to her whether she physically has it in her possession or not.
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