New photo Saudi woman is trapped at Bangkok airport after trying to flee family amid fears they would kill her

A young Saudi woman who says she has renounced Islam and could be killed if she returns home is trapped at Bangkok's main airport.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, says she was on a trip to Kuwait with her family when she fled on a flight two days ago. She explained she tried to head to Australia, via Bangkok, to seek asylum but had her passport seized by a Saudi official.

Ms Rahaf claims that in addition to confiscating her passport, Saudi officials forcibly took her to the Miracle Transit Hotel at the airport, where she is being held until they take her home. Thai police, she said, had refused to help her.

In a series of Tweets in Arabic and English Ms Rahaf claims that 'her life will be in real danger' if she is forced to return to Saudi Arabia.

A Thai official confirmed to a news agency today that an 18-year-old Saudi woman seeking asylum was denied entry to Thailand and held in Bangkok's airport. 

Thailand's immigration chief Surachate Hakparn told AFP: 'Rahaf Mohammed M Alqunun ran away from her family to avoid marriage and she is concerned she may be in trouble returning to Saudi Arabia'.

He added that Thai authorities contacted the 'Saudi Arabia embassy to coordinate'.

Rahaf and Human Rights Watch told AFP she was stopped by Saudi and Kuwaiti officials when she arrived in Suvarnabhumi airport and her passport was forcibly taken from her. 

In a tweet Ms al-Qunun said: 'I have been detained in an airport hotel. I will be forcibly repatriated tomorrow to Kuwait and then Saudi.

'There is an airport person who constantly follows me. I can't even ask for protection or asylum in Thailand. Thai police refuse to help me.'

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, tweeted: 'I have been detained in an airport hotel. I will be forcibly repatriated tomorrow to Kuwait and then Saudi. There is an airport person who constantly follows me. I can't even ask for protection or asylum in Thailand. Thai police refuse to help me'

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

She says she has an Australian visa but her passport was seized by a Saudi diplomat when he met her coming off the flight.

Thai police Major General 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 and it is unclear why Ms Mohammed al-Qunun would need a Thai visa if she was in transit to Australia and had an Australian visa.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun's tweets are being translated and shared online. She says she is in real danger if she is forced to return to Saudi Arabia

In a series of tweets Ms Mohammed al-Qunun described being detained by police at Suvarnabhumi Airport (pictured) and says she fears for her life 

Saudi citizens visiting Thailand are also eligible to apply for a visa on arrival when entering the country.

Ms Mohammed al-Qunun detailed her plight on Twitter, saying: 'Because I got nothing to lose I'm going now to share me real name and my all information.'

She also shared a picture of her passport 'because I want you to know I'm real and exist'.

Another tweet read: 'I'm afraid my family will kill me.'

Online, Arabic speakers, human rights activists and journalists have attempted to bring a media spotlight to the case on Twitter using the hashtag #SaveRahaf. 

The case had echoes of another Saudi woman who was in transit to Australia in April 2017. Dina Ali Lasloom, 24, was en route from Kuwait via the Philippines but was taken back to Saudi Arabia from Manila airport by her family.

She used a Canadian tourist's phone to send a message, a video of which was posted to Twitter, saying her family would kill her. Her fate on arriving back in Saudi Arabia remains unknown.

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