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The injunction was subsequently dismissed, though an appeal was planned. Lawyers in Thailand filed an injunction to prevent her forced deportation. While barricaded Mohammed also allowed a friend to tweet on her behalf. Australian ABC journalist Sophie McNeill flew to Bangkok and snuck into her room and barricaded herself with Mohammed to protect her. In one tweet, she shared a picture of her passport. This drew world-wide support, with more than half a million tweets using the '#SaveRahaf' hashtag. She also said she had barricaded herself in her hotel room, was refusing to exit until she met with UN representatives, claimed refugee status, and implored embassy officials of various Western nations to assist her in seeking asylum.

Mohammed opened an account on Twitter which spread rapidly because of the international lawyer Mahmoud Refaat's reactions on Twitter who changed the situation by his intervention and rescued Rahaf from potential deportation, and in a series of posts said that she had renounced Islam and was concerned that she could be murdered by her family if deported to Saudi Arabia. She was detained by Thai authorities at the Miracle Transit Hotel within the airport. Mohammed never intended to leave the airport's transit area and therefore did not require a Thai visa.

He left with her passport and did not return. Upon arrival at Suvarnabhumi Airport in Bangkok, a man greeted her, not disclosing that he was a Saudi embassy official, and told her that he needed her passport so that he could help her obtain a Thai visa. Her family reportedly filed a missing person report after her escape from Kuwait. A tourist visa had been issued to her that permitted entry into Australia. She intended to continue on another flight to seek asylum in Australia.

While Mohammed was on vacation with her family in Kuwait, she left them and boarded a flight to Bangkok, Thailand. On 11 January 2019 she was granted asylum in Canada and arrived in Toronto the next day. After she had appealed for help on Twitter and gained significant attention, Thai authorities abandoned their plans to forcibly return her to Kuwait (from where she would be repatriated to Saudi Arabia), and she was taken under the protection of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and granted refugee status. She had intended to claim asylum in Australia and escape her family who she says abused her and threatened to kill her for, among other reasons, leaving Islam, an act that is a capital offence under Saudi law. Rahaf Mohammed (formerly Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq al-Qunun Al-Shammari Arabic: رهف محمد مطلق القنون الشمري) is a Saudi refugee and author who was detained by Thai authorities on 5 January 2019 while transiting through Bangkok airport, en route from Kuwait to Australia.

Rebel my escape from saudi arabia to freedom rahaf mohammed