The head of Thailand’s Immigration Police Maj. Gen. Surachate Hakparn says a young Saudi woman who was stopped in Thailand as she tried to flee to Australia to seek asylum will not be forcibly sent back to Saudi Arabia.
The 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun fled from Kuwait during a family vacation and arrived at Suvarnabhumi Airport Saturday night.
She has barricaded herself inside her airport hotel room and on Monday made several Twitter posts demanding she be allowed to meet with someone from the United Nations. She said she will stay in the room until the United Nations helps her.
According to Human Rights activists, Saudi women have minimum civil rights in the ultra-conservative country of Saudi kingdom. Females need permission from a male relative to obtain a passport and travel aboard.Saudi Arabia often sentences women who commit ‘adultery’,
Another Saudi woman, Dina Lasloom, flew to the Philippines in 2017 while trying to escape Saudi Arabia.An airline security official saw that she was dragged out of the airport with her mouth, hands, and feet bound with tape.Human rights activists said they don’t have any idea about her since then.
Last year, India returned Princess Latifa the daughter of the ruler of Dubai and Prime Minister of the UAE Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum to Gulf state.Detained in Dubai a NGO alleged that India violated international treaties and handed over the princess by intercepting a ship carrying Sheikha Latifa Al Maktoumto UAE authority.
