The 18-year-old Saudi left for Canada just before midnight on Friday. OTTAWA: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada was taking in an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation from Thailand. "Canada has been unequivocal that we'll stand up for human rights and women's rights around the world," Trudeau said. She deleted her entire contentious Twitter account hours before departure for Canada. "She chose Canada... Canada said it will accept her," immigration chief Surachate "Big Joke" Hakparn told reporters at Suvarnabhumi.

Source: Bangkok Post January 11, 2019 20:03 UTC