‘I’m sure 100 percent they will kill me’: Saudi woman, 18, tweets that she is trapped in Bangkok airport
Rahaf Mohammed al Qunun 18 thebritishherald
A Saudi woman is being held in Bangkok after trying to escape her abusive family who she says will kill her on her return to the kingdom.
In a series of tweets Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, has described being followed around Bangkok airport by Saudi officials who then robbed her of her passport.
She fled her family on a trip to Kuwait two days ago and is trying to reach Australia, via Bangkok, to seek asylum after renouncing Islam.
But after a relative reported her for travelling without the company of a male guardian she was detained and is now being held in the Miracle Transit Hotel at the airport.
She arrived at 9pm on Saturday (4am Sunday GMT) and is due to be escorted from her room tomorrow morning on to the 11.15am (4.15am GMT) Kuwait Airways flight 412 from Bangkok to Kuwait.
Her father and brother are understood to be waiting at Kuwait airport to collect her and bring her back to Saudi.
Rahaf said: ‘My family is strict and locked me in a room for six months just for cutting my hair,’ she said, adding that she is certain she will be imprisoned if she is sent back.
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A Saudi woman is being held in Bangkok after trying to escape her abusive family who she says will kill her on her return to the kingdom.
In a series of tweets Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, has described being followed around Bangkok airport by Saudi officials who then robbed her of her passport.
She fled her family on a trip to Kuwait two days ago and is trying to reach Australia, via Bangkok, to seek asylum after renouncing Islam.
But after a relative reported her for travelling without the company of a male guardian she was detained and is now being held in the Miracle Transit Hotel at the airport.
She arrived at 9pm on Saturday (4am Sunday GMT) and is due to be escorted from her room tomorrow morning on to the 11.15am (4.15am GMT) Kuwait Airways flight 412 from Bangkok to Kuwait.
Her father and brother are understood to be waiting at Kuwait airport to collect her and bring her back to Saudi.
Rahaf said: ‘My family is strict and locked me in a room for six months just for cutting my hair,’ she said, adding that she is certain she will be imprisoned if she is sent back.
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