{"id":28152,"date":"2019-01-07T14:24:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28152"},"modified":"2019-01-07T14:24:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T14:24:50","slug":"saudi-woman-says-shes-being-held-at-thai-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28152","title":{"rendered":"Saudi woman says she&#8217;s being &#8216;held&#8217; at Thai airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)<\/cite>A Saudi teenager claiming to be fleeing her abusive family has barricaded herself in a hotel room in Bangkok&#8217;s main airport after Thai immigration officials attempted to deport her back to the Middle East. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The 18-year-old identified herself as Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq Al-Qunun <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rahaf84427714\" target=\"_blank\">on an unverified Twitter account<\/a>. She posted photographs of herself and her passport, and said she was seeking refugee status from &#8220;any country that would protect me from getting harmed or killed due to leaving my religion and torture from my family.&#8221; <\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Al-Qunun said that on landing at Suvarnabhumi Airport, Thailand, she had her passport confiscated and had been &#8220;held&#8221; by Saudi embassy officials.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)A Saudi teenager claiming to be fleeing her abusive family has barricaded herself in a hotel room in Bangkok&#8217;s main airport after Thai immigration officials attempted to deport her back to the Middle East. The 18-year-old identified herself as Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq Al-Qunun on an unverified Twitter account. She posted photographs of herself&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}