Posted on 01/07/2019 11:00:29 AM PST by Zhang Fei
Bangkok, Thailand (CNN) A Saudi teenager who flew to Thailand to escape her family in Kuwait will be allowed to stay in the country for now, Thai officials said Monday.
The 18-year-old, who identified herself as Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq Al-Qunun on an unverified Twitter account, had barricaded herself in a Bangkok airport hotel room in an effort to prevent officials from sending her back to her family.
She posted photographs of herself and her passport, and said she was seeking refugee status from "any country that would protect me from getting harmed or killed due to leaving my religion and torture from my family."
Earlier on Monday, Qunun posted videos on social media where she can be heard refusing entry to people knocking on the door of her hotel room at the airport.
"They're trying to get me to come out so they can take me away. I'm trying to contact the UN," she told the camera. A mattress, desk and chair were seen standing against the chain-locked door.
Official from @KuwaitAirways is at Rahaf's door but she's refusing to leave #SaveRahaf pic.twitter.com/TcRf3p7Dys — Sophie McNeill (@Sophiemcneill) January 7, 2019
Thailand's immigration police chief, Surachet Hakpal, initially told CNN that Qunun would be returned to Kuwait later on Monday.
But hours later, Hakpal said Qunun would instead be released from the airport into the protection of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR).
"She is now under the sovereignty of Thailand. No one and no embassy can force her to go anywhere. We will protect her as best as we can," Hakpal told a news conference Monday.
"We will talk to her and do whatever she requests. Since she escaped trouble to seek our help, we are the Land of Smiles, we will not send anyone to their death.
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She sounds Islamophobic.........
More likely Islamonauseous . . .
Not trying to start a flame war here, just wondering if the father can claim authority over a minor (?) child, whether she can claim asylum, etc.
This could blow up into a major human rights issue here and I don't know what her legal rights are under international law.
If she’s forced back to Saudi, she’ll never be seen again.
What no one is explaining is this -— WHY IS SHE TRYING TO ESCAPE HER FAMILY?
I can only think of two possible reasons:
1) She is being forced to marry someone she does not like
2) She converted to another religion ( i.e. Christianity ).
“any country that would protect me from getting harmed or killed due to leaving my religion and torture from my family.”
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Her statement says it all, “Due to leaving my religion and torture from my family.”
Also from this site:
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Given Saudi Arabia’s long track record of looking the other way in so-called honor violence incidents, her worry that she could be killed if returned cannot be ignored,” he said.
“She has clearly stated that she has renounced Islam which also puts her at serious risk of prosecution by the Saudi Arabian government.”
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She has CEASED believing in Islam and THAT is apostasy, for which, punishment is DEATH according to Sharia Law.
A hit man, or woman, will eventually take care of business.
Thailand?
bkmk
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2093513/Afghan-family-guilty-honour-killing-Canada.html
An Afghan father, his wife and their son have been jailed for life after a jury found them guilty of killing three teenage sisters and a co-wife in what the judge described as a ‘despicable’ and ‘heinous’ crime.
The jury had taken 15 hours to find Mohammad Shafia, 58, his wife Tooba Yahya, 42; and their son Hamed, 21, each guilty of four counts of first-degree murder.
The four bodies were found in June 2009 in a car submerged in a canal in Kingston, Ontario, where the family had stopped for the night on their way home from Niagara Falls.
Prosecutors said the daughters were killed because they dishonored the family by defying rules on dress, dating, socialising and going online.
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