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| Saudi teen Rahaf Qunun to depart Thailand for Canada asylum: Thai immigration chief | |
| 2019-01-12 | |
Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, will board a Korean Air flight from Bangkok to Seoul on Friday night, immigration chief Surachate Hakpark said, before boarding a connecting flight to Canada. "Canada has granted her asylum," Surachate told Rooters. "She’ll leave tonight at 11.15 p.m." Canadian authorities said they could not confirm that Qunun had been granted asylum in Canada. "We have nothing new to add on this right now," a front man for Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said. Qunun arrived in Bangkok on Saturday and was initially denied entry but after a tense 48-hour stand-off at Bangkok airport, some of it barricaded in a transit lounge hotel room, she was allowed to enter the country and has been processed as a refugee by the United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Qunun has accused her family of abuse, and has refused to meet her father and brother who arrived in Bangkok to try to take her back to Soddy Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... Australia had said on Wednesday that it was considering taking in Qunun. | |
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