Friday, 11 January 2019

Canada takes in Saudi teen asylum seeker

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced Friday that Canada was taking in an 18-year-old Saudi asylum seeker who fled her family and harnessed the power of Twitter to stave off deportation from Thailand. Qunun's attempt to flee the ultra-conservative kingdom was embraced by rights groups as a beacon of defiance against repression.

from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India http://bit.ly/2D5p3fQ

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