The United Nations has discovered that a young person who fled Saudi Arabia to Thailand is an authentic evacuee and has requested that Australia take her in, authorities in Canberra said Wednesday (Jan 9).
"The UNHCR has alluded Ms Rahaf Mohammed Al-Qunun to Australia for thought for displaced person resettlement," the Department of Home Affairs said in an announcement.
The choice denotes a huge triumph for the 18-year-old, who is as of now in Bangkok where she says Thai specialists endeavored to hinder her from making a trip to Australia to guarantee shelter. The home issues division said it will "think about this referral in the standard way, as it does with all UNHCR referrals".
Australian authorities have firmly implied that Qunun's ask for will be acknowledged. "On the off chance that she is observed to be an evacuee, we will give, intense thought to a compassionate visa," wellbeing priest Greg Hunt had said before the UN assurance was open.
The young lady has said she was escaping from Saudi Arabia to Australia however was halted in transit by Thai and Saudi authorities.
Her predicament shot to open consideration when she blockaded herself in a Bangkok airplane terminal lodging to evade extradition and shared many frightful however insubordinate messages web based demanding her entitlement to refuge.
Thai experts at first said Qunun would be sent back, yet they suddenly changed course as the story pinballed crosswise over web based life. Saudi Arabia has a portion of the world's hardest confinements on ladies, including a guardianship framework that enables male relatives to settle on choices in the interest of female relatives.
The kingdom's human rights record has been under substantial investigation since the homicide of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the nation's government office in Istanbul a year ago.
Indeed, even Australia's hardline home issues serve, a previous policeman and staunch supporter of hostile to migration approaches, communicated compassion. "There is no exceptional treatment for this situation," Peter Dutton said Wednesday.
In any case, he included, "no one needs to see a young lady in trouble and she has clearly now discovered a place of refuge in Thailand".
In Geneva, UNHCR representative Babar Baloch had told journalists the procedure investigating Qunun's haven guarantee had begun and could take a few days.
Thailand isn't a signatory to an UN tradition on exiles, and shelter searchers are regularly ousted or hold up a very long time to be resettled in third nations.
The UNHCR demands anybody with a refuge guarantee ought not be sent back to the nation.
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