(Sakchai Lalit/Associated Press)BANGKOK — Several countries including Canada and Australia are in talks with the U.N. refugee agency to accept a Saudi asylum seeker who fled alleged abuse from her family, Thai police said Friday. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun was stopped at a Bangkok airport on Saturday by Thai immigration police who denied her entry and seized her passport. It garnered enough public and diplomatic support to convince Thai officials to admit her temporarily under the protection of U.N. officials. Alqunun’s case has highlighted the cause of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia. Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne met with senior Thai officials in Bangkok on Thursday.

Source: Washington Post January 11, 2019 00:47 UTC