Saudi woman, 18, barricades self in Thai hotel to avoid being sent home

[Cucullen]

Brave girl, where are all the feminists and "Me Too" women of the West right now.

I guess their sisters in the Islamic dictatorships don't matter. 

I hope she gets out of this alive.

[Tony125]

‘WE WON’T SEND SOMEONE TO THEIR DEATH,’ THAI IMMIGRATION CHIEF SAYS

By

 Todd Ruiz, Editor

 -

January 7, 2019 4:05 pm

 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2019/01/07/we-wont-send-someone-to-their-death-thai-immigration-chief-says/      

 

 

UN has arrived. They are interviewing Rahaf. They gave their word that she would remain in their custody & that she is now safe. This is what they promised@UNHCRThailand @Reaproy @melissarfleming      

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46777848

 

Rahaf al-Qunun: Thailand vows not to deport Saudi woman

2 minutes ago

 

The head of Thailand's immigration police has said the country will not deport a young Saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend, due to concerns for her safety.

 

[theguyfromanotherforum]

5 years in Thailand and this is the first story that is making me really upset.

 

 

 

 

[Srikcir]

2 hours ago, Henrik Andersen said:

how could she fly alone to Thailand /Australia it is against the law in her country to travel alone 

Surely there are more to this story 

"she fled while her family was visiting Kuwait, which unlike Saudi Arabia, does not require a male relative’s approval for an adult woman to depart the country."

Read the full story.

[RickBradford]

The sad truth is that even if Rahaf al-Qanun does make it to Australia, she won't be safe.

 

Not just that Australia has imported its own complement of fanatic Islamist madmen, but any public figure who criticizes Islam is marked down for destruction, no matter where they live.

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is perhaps the most prominent example of this; speaking out and writing against Islam having escaped from Somalia to the Netherlands, she has been under police protection for 20 years or so.

 

On moving to the US, she was to be offered an honorary doctorate at Brandeis University, but this was withdrawn over protests that she was "Islamophobic". Really. Western idiots show more solidarity with radical Islam than they do with human rights.

 

Rahaf al-Qanun may be saved from going back to Saudi, but she will never again be truly safe. The primitive urge to avenge the "insult" to Islam never dies among certain maladjusted individuals.

[Muhendis]

3 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

She has her passport.

This whole thing about the passport is mixed up. The Saudi embassy have said her passport is (I think) cancelled. The lady says it has been taken from her. If she has her passport then there is no reason for her not to travel on to Australia. The only thing stopping her is Thai immigration who want to send her back to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis' have a habit of acting on their countrymen/women where ever they are in the world breaking local and international laws seemingly with impunity.

[Derek B]

7 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Can't say I blame her, the BBC reports she says she has renounced Islam.

 

That does not go down well in Saudi.

 

If she has a visa for Australia let her go there.

 

Mystified as to why thai immigration stopped her as she was in transit to Australia, again according to the BBC report, and not attempting to enter Thailand, when she landed in Bangkok.

Her passport was cancelled (I read) - maybe that was a reason to prevent onward travel. Not sure if the Thai computer system would pick up on that so quick. Up to Australia now to rescue her.

 

[mommysboy]

On an interview aired on BBC World Service, Newshour, she said that officials tricked her in to surrendering her passport offering the possibility of a Thai visa, an application which was subsequently rejected.  What a mean trick (if true).

[metisdead]

Some troll posts and the replies have been removed. 

[mommysboy]

2 hours ago, smedly said:

some common sense at last

 

return her passport and let this adult girl make her own decisions - she is not a child, her relatives/parents have "NO" say in the matter - it is up to her, she done nothing to deserve this treatment 

 

also she is not a criminal

 

why has she been detained !!!!

'this adult girl'

 

Ah woman?

[CeeGee]

I may be wrong but it appears that the Thai authorities were happy to go along with deporting her until the story hit the international press and suddenly their attitude changed.

If I am right,it would not be the first time that they changed their tune once thing were open to outside scrutiny

Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn said just after 4pm that Thailand has reversed course and will not deport her against her will.

Edited January 7, 2019 by CeeGee

[Bluespunk]

33 minutes ago, Muhendis said:

This whole thing about the passport is mixed up. The Saudi embassy have said her passport is (I think) cancelled. The lady says it has been taken from her. If she has her passport then there is no reason for her not to travel on to Australia. The only thing stopping her is Thai immigration who want to send her back to Saudi Arabia. The Saudis' have a habit of acting on their countrymen/women where ever they are in the world breaking local and international laws seemingly with impunity.

Yeah, think I just misinterpreted a BBC quote on her posting an image of her passport. 

[Spidey]

6 hours ago, Snow Leopard said:

Saudi is a powder keg. Also on the BBC and Youtube. 

Watched this a couple of weeks ago. Shocking what officials from the Gulf states get away with outside their own countries. In this case, the girl was apprehended in India and immediately handed over to officials from her own country. Wasn't even accused of any crime. Can't see the girl in Bangkok faring any better. Money talks.

[marqus12]

22 minutes ago, CeeGee said:

Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn said just after 4pm that Thailand has reversed course and will not deport her against her will.

My congratulations Mr. Yai Jok... you are NOT 'Alee the soy boy' !

Edited January 7, 2019 by marqus12

[snoop1130]

Saudi girl detained in Suvarnabhumi Airport hotel meets with UNHCR

By The Nation

 

A UN High Commissioner for Refugees on Monday met Saudi woman who ran away from her family and was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport on her way to Australia.

 

UNHCR spokeswoman Caroline Gluck told the Nation in a telephone interview at 6.30pm that the meeting was going on. A representative met Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun at a hotel room in the airport where she was detained.

 

Meanwhile Sophie McNeill, ABC reporter, tweeted, “UN has arrived. They are interviewing Rahaf. They gave their word that she would remain in their custody & that she is now safe. This is what they promised.”

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30361791

[whitemouse]

1 hour ago, RickBradford said:

 

1 hour ago, Cucullen said:

Brave girl, where are all the feminists and "Me Too" women of the West right now.

I guess their sisters in the Islamic dictatorships don't matter. 

I hope she gets out of this alive.

Exactly! Where are feminists, Me Too army of angry woman? Nothing trending on Twitter, nothing trending on Reddit!

 

What is trending is citizens posting, journalists and all major news outlets covering this case. It is huge news now, something that can't be ignored, and having her quietly deported to SA, to certain, lawful and perfectly legal  execution!

 

But what would we expect? Woman's March, the pus*sy hat movement is led by Linda Sarsour, herself Islamist, and someone who believes niqab, burka and every other bag that cover a woman, a human being from head to toe EMPOWERS women!

 

Here she is:

https://www.influencewatch.org/person/linda-sarsour/

 

She celebrates how Sharia treats women. And somehow she is one of the leading feminists in the West lol.

[RickBradford]

3 minutes ago, whitemouse said:

Brave girl, where are all the feminists and "Me Too" women of the West right now.

Radical feminists think the West is a tyrannical patriarchy, and want to tear it down.

 

Islamists think the West is a decadent infidel abomination and want to tear it down.

 

"My enemy's enemy is my friend."

[whitemouse]

1 hour ago, RickBradford said:

The sad truth is that even if Rahaf al-Qanun does make it to Australia, she won't be safe.

 

Not just that Australia has imported its own complement of fanatic Islamist madmen, but any public figure who criticizes Islam is marked down for destruction, no matter where they live.

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is perhaps the most prominent example of this; speaking out and writing against Islam having escaped from Somalia to the Netherlands, she has been under police protection for 20 years or so.

 

On moving to the US, she was to be offered an honorary doctorate at Brandeis University, but this was withdrawn over protests that she was "Islamophobic". Really. Western idiots show more solidarity with radical Islam than they do with human rights.

 

Rahaf al-Qanun may be saved from going back to Saudi, but she will never again be truly safe. The primitive urge to avenge the "insult" to Islam never dies among certain maladjusted individuals.

 

 

It's worse, Ayaan Hirsi Ali is now considered "Islamophobe" by SPLC, Southern Powerty Law Center! She is perhaps the bravest feminist, she is the real deal, and for being critical of Islam she is shunned by most Liberal establishment! We at Left, Liberals, have lost our ways. Linda Sarsour, an actual Islamist is head of Woman's March (the pus*sy hatmovement) is respected feminist, and Ayaan is labeled with same stamp as hate groups. 

SPLC did the same to Maajid Nawaz, outspoken critic of Islam. He died them, and won. 

 

Where are feminist groups screening to release this Saudi woman stuck in BKK airport? Certainly nothing trending on news aggregators. They should be ashamed and drop the whole act.

Btw, same goes for GLBT groups in West, not a peep from them, as Iran routinely executes gay man, legally, all according to Sharia. They are actually saying "we must celebrate our differences, and respect their culture!"

Makes me sick.

[Yme]

I found the most uptodate information here on this news site that appear to have been tge first to break the story. Getting more complicated by the moment it seems.

 

https://aecnewstoday.com/2019/saudi-asylum-seeker-challenges-thailand-human-rights-record-as-asean-chair-year-begins/

 

[whitemouse]

1 hour ago, theguyfromanotherforum said:

5 years in Thailand and this is the first story that is making me really upset.

 

 

 

 

 

Same! There have been reports of terrible injustice, but this is personal, because I live here, I feel quilt. Only 3 hours ago it looked certain that she will be forced back to SA, and all day I feel so e of this is on me. Terrible helpless rage, and no recourse, absolutely nothing, other than retweet, make it trend on Reddit, in faint hope Thailand will be shamed to do the right thing.

Had she been any Western airport, there would not even been a question about asylum mechanism triggered. Diplomat who forcible took her passport, this breaking a law, would have been immidiately declared  Persons Non Grata, and given minimal time to GTFO. But not here. Face it, this is 3rd world.

Edited January 7, 2019 by whitemouse
Never buy Chinese phone, Huawei auto correct makes typing nearly impossible, every word is a struggle, and all I do is correct the auto correct. Nice 6.9 inch AMOLED, hopeless software.

[mommysboy]

1 hour ago, Tony125 said:

‘WE WON’T SEND SOMEONE TO THEIR DEATH,’ THAI IMMIGRATION CHIEF SAYS

By

 Todd Ruiz, Editor

 -

January 7, 2019 4:05 pm

 

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2019/01/07/we-wont-send-someone-to-their-death-thai-immigration-chief-says/      

 

 

UN has arrived. They are interviewing Rahaf. They gave their word that she would remain in their custody & that she is now safe. This is what they promised@UNHCRThailand @Reaproy @melissarfleming      

 

 

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46777848

 

Rahaf al-Qunun: Thailand vows not to deport Saudi woman

2 minutes ago

 

The head of Thailand's immigration police has said the country will not deport a young Saudi woman who fled her family at the weekend, due to concerns for her safety.

 

GOOD! 

[snoop1130]

Saudi woman leaves Bangkok airport under UN care

By Jintamas Saksornchai, Staff Reporter

 

Rahaf Alqunun, at center, is escorted by immigration chief Surachate Hakparn, at right, Monday at Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi Airport.

 

BANGKOK — A runaway Saudi woman who barricaded herself inside a room at a Bangkok airport rather than be deported back to her family has left safely in UN care.

 

Thai authorities will allow 18-year-old Rahaf Alqunun into the country while the UNHCR processes her case after agency representatives were allowed to meet with her late Monday afternoon, according to Lt. Gen. Surachate Hakparn, immigration bureau chief.

 

Full Story: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/featured/2019/01/07/saudi-woman-leaves-bangkok-airport-under-un-care/

[khunPer]

8 hours ago, Bluespunk said:

Mystified as to why thai immigration stopped her as she was in transit to Australia, again according to the BBC report, and not attempting to enter Thailand, when she landed in Bangkok.

According to the article in The Sun she did try to enter through Thai Immigration to make a stop over in Thailand, and that was were she was stopped, as she did not had the right documents.

 

Agree with transit, I was at first also surprised how and why she would be stopped in transit from one plane to another, holding a visa for Australia. But if the story from The Sun is correct that might be the answer.

Edited January 7, 2019 by khunPer

[exparte]

Poor Girl. I Hope she gets to Australia.

[theguyfromanotherforum]

 

 

 

????

[whitemouse]

Maybe too early to celebrate, but feels like a huge relief. For once good guys win, this almost never happens lately. 

[buasaard]

UN can issue a time limited diplomatic passport for the girl. Then she is free to fly to Australia and ask the refugee status.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_laissez-passer

I think she'd better change destination and fly to Europe. I'm afraid Australia would send her to Nauru, or she is different from other refugees?

[theguyfromanotherforum]

Come to Canada

[Sheryl]

A very brave and resourceful young woman. My heart goes out to her. Not many 18 year olds -- let alone 18 year olds from Saudi Arabia and a politically powerful abusive family --  would have the courage and wits to do what she did.

 

[suspectdevice]

8 hours ago, darksidedog said:

Things look pretty grim for her right now. Thailand is clearly kowtowing to the Saudis, which given their record of abuses is a terrible thing to do. 

Good job the corrupt and clueless UK Government doesn't do that...