Saudi Woman 'trapped At Bangkok Airport Trying To Flee Family'

naomi24 | 12:38 Sun 06th Jan 2019 | News

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//A young Saudi woman says she is stranded at Bangkok's main airport after fleeing her family and having her passport seized by a Saudi official.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun says she was on a trip to Kuwait with her family when she fled on a flight two days ago.

She was trying to head to Australia via a connecting flight in Bangkok.

She told the BBC that she had renounced Islam, and feared she would be forcibly returned to Saudi Arabia and killed by her family.

Thai police Maj Gen Surachate Hakparn told the BBC that Ms Mohammed al-Qunun was escaping a marriage. Because she did not have a visa to enter Thailand, he said police had denied her entry and were in the process of repatriating her through the same airline she had taken, Kuwait Airlines.

Gen Surachate said he was unaware of any passport seizure.//

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-46773625

She says her passport was seized by a Saudi diplomat on arrival in Bangkok, but the Bangkok authorities weren't aware she had no passport - only that she had no visa which is why she was denied entry. Very odd.

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naomi24

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sanmac, and sadly you're right.

237SJ

Was her passport seized by a Saudi diplomat or just withheld by Thai Immigration though?

Canary42

It's really heartening to see such a significant turnout of Abers who don't want to send all refugees back where they came from.

Restores somewhat my faith in human compassion.

Peter Pedant

powa of the internet
the minister concerned has said she can stay
and has visited the airport - - done a bake and shake or whatever the phrase is

naomi24

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237SJ, she was met off the flight by a Saudi diplomat, alerted I presume by the authorities in Kuwait/Saudi to whom the family had reported her attempted escape. The Thai authorities weren’t aware that her passport had been taken.

Canary, //It's really heartening to see such a significant turnout of Abers who don't want to send all refugees back where they came from. //

Unlike many of those heading for the shores of Europe, and all those heading by dinghy for the shores of the UK, she is not an economic migrant.

237SJ

That's what the newspapers say.

naomi24

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237SJ, it makes sense.

237SJ

I`m not sure it does, to he honest

naomi24

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Why?

237SJ

Becuse when a person enters a country without the necessary documentation/visa etc they are not deported (a deportee) They are an Inadmissable. An INAD is sent back to the country from whence they came and the airline that brought them will have to bear the cost. When someone is deported, the deporting country bears the cost and decides which airline and the route that the deportee will take. The passport will be taken off the deportee and handed to the airline crew who will take charge of it until the the deportee arrives at their destination

naomi24

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237SJ, cost isn't an issue, neither is her status. She was put in a hotel to await a flight out of the country. I don't see any reason to doubt that a Saudi official met her plane or that he took her passport. In fact, being a Saudi, I think it highly likely.