Saudi woman fleeing family flies to Canada after gaining asylum

A Saudi lady who fled to Thailand saying she dreaded her family would slaughter her has been conceded shelter in Canada and is en route to the nation, Thai authorities have said.

Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun, 18, loaded up a Korean Air departure from Bangkok to Seoul on Friday night, they included. She is because of load up a corresponding flight to Canada from Incheon airplane terminal in Seoul.

The Canadian leader, Justin Trudeau, affirmed on Friday that Qunun had been allowed refuge.

He told columnists that the United Nations exile organization (UNHCR) had requested that Canada take in Qunun. "Canada is a nation that sees that it is so critical to go to bat for human rights, to go to bat for ladies' rights far and wide, and I can affirm that we have acknowledged the UN's ask for," he said.

The choice is probably going to worsen Canada's as of now poor relations with Saudi Arabia, which a year ago banned the Canadian minister to Riyadh after Ottawa condemned Saudi specialists for confining women's' activists.

Qunun landed in Bangkok on 5 January and was at first denied section. Following a strained 48-hour standoff at Bangkok air terminal, some of it spent blockaded in a travel relax lodging, she was permitted to enter the nation and has been handled as an outcast by the UNHCR.

She has blamed her family for maltreatment and declined to meet her dad and sibling, who had touched base in Bangkok to attempt to take her back to Saudi Arabia.

Her case has conveyed worldwide thoughtfulness regarding Saudi Arabia's strict social tenets, including a prerequisite that ladies have the consent of a male gatekeeper to travel, which rights bunches state can trap ladies and young ladies as detainees of damaging families.

Qunun's predicament has developed when Riyadh is confronting exceptional examination from western partners over the murdering of the writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi department in Istanbul and the philanthropic outcomes of its war in Yemen.

Australia said on Wednesday it was thinking about taking in Qunun.