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A Saudi girl who claims to be fleeing her family for fear of losing her life locks herself up in a hotel room at Bangkok's airport in Thailand and refuses to be deported.
Thai immigration officials want to bring back Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, to Kuwait, where his family is.
A young Saudi woman locked up in a hotel room to avoid going home
She does not Did not agree to embark on Monday for a flight to the city of Kuwait, although immigration agents stand in front of his hotel room.
"My brothers , members of my family and the Embbady of Saudi Arabia. she will wait for me in Kuwait, "she told Reuters, who told the BBC that she had renounced Islamism and feared being forced to return to Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia and being killed by his family because of theft.
"They will kill me. My life is in danger. My family is threatening to kill me for more insignificant things. "
Human rights organizations, including the NGO Human Rights Watch, have expressed serious concerns about the well-being of Mohammed al-Qunun in the hall and said that he will not leave "until he is allowed to meet with the UN refugee agency and apply for asylum," Phil Robertson, deputy director, told his Twitter account. from Asia to Asia,
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Mohammed al-Qunun was on vacation with his family in Kuwait when he escaped there two days. She was trying to travel to Australia, where she hoped to seek asylum by a connecting flight to Bangkok.
The young woman claims that her pbadport was seized by a Saudi diplomat who found her after disembarking from the plane at Suvarnabhumi airport on Sunday.
She insists that she went to Australia and that she never wanted to stay in Thailand.
The Saudi Embbady in Bangkok claims that Mohammed al-Qunun was arrested at the airport "because he had no return ticket" and that he should be deported to Kuwait "where most of his family lives".
She added that Saudi Arabia did not have the power to keep it at the airport or elsewhere and that the authorities were in contact with her father.
"It seems that the Thai government is creating a conspiracy that would have tried to apply for a visa and that it was denied.In fact, it had a ticket for Australia, she did not want to enter in Thailand to begin with, "he said. Robertson of Human Rights Watch at the BBC.
He argues that the Thai authorities clearly cooperated with Saudi Arabia because they were able to wait for the plane upon arrival.
Mohammed al-Qunun began to attract attention through publications on social media during the weekend.
She gave her Twitter account access to a friend as a contingency in case something happened to her.
She told the BBC Newshour radio show that she was in a hotel located in the transit area of the airport.
"I shared my story and my photos on social networks My father is very angry because I did it.I can not study or work in my country.I therefore wish to be free and study and work as I wish. "he said.
Mohammed al-Qunun wrote on Twitter that he had decided to share his name and personal data because he had "nothing to lose" now.
And sought the protection of Canada, the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.
I ask in particular the protection of the following country
Canada / United States / Australia / United Kingdom, I ask all the representatives they wish to contact me.
A photo published on the social network shows the young woman locked up in the room, while the authorities were supposed to be outside, in the waiting to return by plane to Kuwait. .
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Jonathan Head, BBC correspondent in Bangkok, says it's not possible to say that he fears for his safety.
She told the BBC that she had renounced Islam and feared being forced to return to Saudi Arabia and be killed by her family.
"Saudi women fleeing their families risk being subjected to serious violence by their relatives, deprivation of liberty and other serious harm if they are fired against their will," said Michael Page, deputy director of Human Rights Watch for the Middle East, communicated.
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– – on January 6, 2019
having not seen the Entry into Thailand, the police refused her entry and is now repatriating her by the same airline that she arrived at – Kuwait Airways.
At the AFP news agency, he said that it was "a family problem" and that the girl "had no other document , such as a return ticket or money ".
The case of Mohammed al-Qunun resembles that of another Saudi woman who also tried to escape to Australia in April 2017.
Dina Ali Lasloom, 24, took a flight from Kuwait via the Philippines but was taken away. Return to Saudi Arabia from Manila Airport by family.
She used the cell phone of a Canadian tourist to send a video, posted on Twitter, that her family would kill her.
His fate on his return to Saudi Arabia remains unknown.
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