Saudi Woman Leaves Bangkok Airport Under UN Care…#SaveRahaf pic.twitter.com/7N0tS5ksMD
— arin ™️ (@nockarin) January 7, 2019
Hopefully, she’s safe now.
Via Buzzfeed:
A Saudi teenager who went viral after saying she had escaped her family and feared for her life has been escorted from Bangkok’s main airport, a significant development after Thai authorities originally said they would deport her back to her relatives in Kuwait.
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, had barricaded herself inside an airport hotel room and took to Twitter to plead her case to the world. She has since left the hotel with UN and Thai authorities.
Thai immigration police on Monday said they would not deport Qunun, and officials from the United Nations’s refugee agency were granted access to the teenager, who wrote on Twitter she would only speak to UN officials.