Thailand said it won’t deport an 18-year-old Saudi woman who claims to be fleeing abuse from her family and is staying inside Bangkok’s main airport. Thai officials earlier told her she would be forced to return on Monday to Kuwait to her father and brother. ‘She’s in Thailand now,’ Surachate Hakparn, the nation’s immigration chief, said in a briefing Monday afternoon at the Suvarnabhumi Airport. Al-Qunun said however that she resides in Saudi Arabia, posting a picture of her university identification card. He had come to Thailand for his honeymoon and remains in detention pending possible extradition to Bahrain.

Source: Hindustan Times January 07, 2019 12:15 UTC