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DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 07:38 AM Apr 2017

Saudi woman abducted, beaten up and disappeared by saudi embassy staff for daring to travel abroad.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/04/13/saudi-woman-abducted-at-the-airport.html

Dina chose emancipation over slavery. She chose to live as a foreign female refugee in a distant land rather than as a citizen-slave in her own. She chose to try and escape Saudi patriarchy via the Philippines to Australia. There she had hoped to claim asylum.

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Dina was a passenger of Philippine Airlines flight PR 669 from Kuwait to Manila. What is clear is that she made it to Manila, arriving at 3:30 a.m. Monday. But it appears that Philippine airport officials at Terminal 2 had been instructed ahead of time by the local Saudi embassy to extract her. While still in transit for an 11 a.m. flight to Australia, Dina was off-loaded at Terminal 2. At this point, Philippine security officials confiscated her passport. We know this because Dina told us herself, over her last video to the world, as she desperately pleaded for help. Eyewitnesses in Terminal 2 also began to report stores of a Saudi woman having her documents confiscated. Then Saudi men from the embassy appeared.

The last seen video of Dina was taken by a witness, and it depicts her screaming “that is not my father” as Philippine officials attempt to hand her over to the Saudis. What happened next will send a chill through the spine of every Saudi woman, and outrage every human being beyond. Detained in the lounge, activists report that Dina was viciously beaten, bound by her arms and legs, wrapped in a sheet, and had her mouth duct-taped shut. She was then kidnapped by Saudi men and put on a 10:30 p.m. Saudi Airlines flight from Terminal 1 back to Jeddah.

In Jeddah, Saudi activists report that Dina was seen at arrivals being rolled off in a wheelchair. Her fate remains unknown.
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Saudi woman abducted, beaten up and disappeared by saudi embassy staff for daring to travel abroad. (Original Post) DetlefK Apr 2017 OP
Oh yes, our good ally SA HAB911 Apr 2017 #1
Why did the Philippines give her to them? get the red out Apr 2017 #2

get the red out

(13,466 posts)
2. Why did the Philippines give her to them?
Thu Apr 13, 2017, 08:55 AM
Apr 2017

I can't stand that a country would give her over to be tortured to death!

I hate Saudi Arabia, terrorist supporting torturers of women. They contributed greatly to 911, for anyone who might think their evil is none of our business.

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