Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau announced on the 11th that Canada accepted the request of United Nations officials to provide asylum to 18-year-old Saudi Arabian fugitives.
"help me, they'll kill me!" Saudi girl Rahaf Mohamed Alkunon, 18, posted a series of desperate messages on social media on the 5th because of "disobedient" parents and renegade on her beliefs, adding tens of thousands of followers overnight and attracting the attention of public opinion in many countries.
According to foreign media, the girl carefully planned a "flight" because of her unbearable ill-treatment at home. On the 2nd, while her family was on holiday in Kuwait, she fled to the airport alone and boarded a flight to Thailand. And tried to transfer to Australia with the help of local friends to apply for asylum. But when he landed in Thailand, he said his passport had been confiscated and trapped in a hotel in Thailand.
After Canada announced the protection of Lahaf on the 11th, CNN's (CNN) quoted the head of Thailand's Immigration Service as saying that the girl had flown to Toronto on a Korean airliner leave Bangkok, where she would transfer in Seoul.
CNN said the fate of Saudi girls remained uncertain because Thailand initially said Australia and Canada had granted asylum to Lahaf before withdrawing the statement. In addition, Lahaf had previously released a distress message of the Twitter has also been decommissioned.
ABC Report said on Twitter that Rahav is "safe" but "has received a lot of death threats."
According to previous reports, Lahaf himself said: "my brother told me that he was waiting for me in Saudi Arabia. My father was so angry that he threatened to kill me. They say they will do, and I know them. "
Lahaf's situation almost drew close attention from global public opinion. In social media, a label called "Save Rahab" has attracted close attention from tens of thousands of netizens around the world. According to a staff member of the United Nations refugee program, the office's phone has been "exploded".