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Honestly, this story makes me more angry than anything Trump has done. And the fact that the entire world is trending this story and MSM in this country hasn't touched it has killed just about any trust I have left in them.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/13/saudi-woman-abducted-at-the-airport.html
TL;DR
1. Saudi woman (25 years old iirc) flees routine beatings and sexual assaults at hands of her family. Her destination was asylum in Australia, but a stop in Philippines first.
2. Phil. officials detained her after her family contacted them. They took her documents and held her until her family arrived. They had no legal right to do so, BTW. In Saudi, women are property of either father, husband, or other male relative.
3. "Family" arrived, only to have witnesses say she was screaming that it wasn't her father. Witnesses then say the family tied her hands and legs, gagged her and beat her.
4. Witnesses in Saudi then say she was rolled off the plane in a wheelchair. There are claims that she is now in a women's protection facility AKA a women's prison camp, but nobody knows for sure.
5. ( not in article) When this started, she fled because her family said they would kill her. An honor killing, basically.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/13/saudi-woman-abducted-at-the-airport.html
TL;DR
1. Saudi woman (25 years old iirc) flees routine beatings and sexual assaults at hands of her family. Her destination was asylum in Australia, but a stop in Philippines first.
2. Phil. officials detained her after her family contacted them. They took her documents and held her until her family arrived. They had no legal right to do so, BTW. In Saudi, women are property of either father, husband, or other male relative.
3. "Family" arrived, only to have witnesses say she was screaming that it wasn't her father. Witnesses then say the family tied her hands and legs, gagged her and beat her.
4. Witnesses in Saudi then say she was rolled off the plane in a wheelchair. There are claims that she is now in a women's protection facility AKA a women's prison camp, but nobody knows for sure.
5. ( not in article) When this started, she fled because her family said they would kill her. An honor killing, basically.