The event that shocked the world: 18-year-old denied Islam as her religion, was forced to flee from family due to the death penalty

In protest of family rules and its state of Saudi Arabia -- for women, she took herself into a room at Bangkok airport from where she refused to go to a guarantee of safe passage to Canada, where 18-year-old Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun would seek asylum from the danger of facing her life.

It all started on Friday when she was on her way to Australia through Bangkok Airport, but there she was detained after the authorities told her her that her family was waiting in Kuwait for her return to the house she had fled from, the Periscope broadcast.

She had refused to return by being confined only to an airport room and thus drawing international attention. In the wake of her interview, she had said she was in danger of life if she returned to Saudi Arabia, since she had denied Islam as her religion and that is legally condemned to death in her homeland.

Canadian foreign minister was the one who hosted her 18-year-old at Toronto Airport and presented her to the media as the bold “and the youngest Canadian” Saturday at noon.

She's a brave young woman who's been through a lot of things... and now she's going to her new house”, declared before reporters the Canadian top diplomat.

Until a day earlier, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had told reporters that he has guaranteed asylum on the basis of the request the United Nations Refugees Agency has filed.

Kunun has declared to the BBC that the reason for her leaving home was fear her family would kill her.

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In yet another statement about AFP she also indicated that she was physically abused by her family

Her, and she was locked in her room for six months, only because she cut her hair.

Women in Saudi Arabia continue to live in miserable conditions and with primary rights violations. Very few women there are educated or employed and all have to submit to the rules of Islam if they want to survive. / Translate Periscope