“I am the girl who escaped Kuwait to Thailand. My life is in real danger if I am forced to return to Saudi Arabia,” wrote 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun on Twitter this weekend in Arabic. She was ...

Last night, while many were fixated on the Golden Globes, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun was trying desperately to avoid being sent back to her homeland of Saudi Arabia, where she believes she will be killed ...

A Saudi teenager will not be sent home after she expressed her fear of being deported and returned to an oppressive family on social media, drumming up outrage and support starting January 6. Rahaf ...

Canada has hired a private bodyguard to protect a Saudi teen refugee who fled her family, after she was sent death threats on Twitter. Rahaf Mohammed was granted asylum in Canada on Friday after the ...

Canada granted asylum on Friday to 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, a Saudi woman who fled her family, claiming fear for her life, and used social media to amplify her calls for safe haven.

It was early last Saturday when Saudi Arabian teenager Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun crept past her sleeping family and headed — she hoped — for a new life Susan Katz Keating is a stringer at PEOPLE. She ...

An image from a video released by Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun on Twitter on Jan. 7. (Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun/Twitter/AFP) (Handout/AFP/Getty Images) The Australian government loves being in lockstep with ...

The U.N. Refugee Agency said it has been granted access to an 18-year-old Saudi woman who traveled to Thailand to seek asylum. In a statement released Monday, the agency said it will assess whether ...

BANGKOK — Australia says it is considering granting a runaway Saudi teenager refugee resettlement after the United Nations on Wednesday deemed her a refugee. The Department of Home Affairs confirmed ...

BANGKOK — A Saudi teenager who says she is fleeing abuse by her family and wants asylum in Australia barricaded herself in an airport hotel in the Thai capital on Monday and was sending out desperate ...

Update: On Tuesday January 8th, the United Nations Human Rights Commission processed Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun's application and found her to be a genuine refugee, referring her case to Australia, where ...