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UN asks Australia to consider resettling Saudi teenager who fled her family | South China Morning Post

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The United Nations (UN) has referred Saudi teenager Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun to Australia for refugee resettlement. Fearing that her family would kill her for renouncing Islam, the 18-year-old had been on her way to Australia to seek asylum before she was stopped in Thailand.

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