Australia urged to help Saudi teenager barricaded inside Thai hotel room

Sarah Hanson-Young says Australia must ‘act quickly’ while former PM’s son tells Scott Morrison to ‘man up’

Calls are growing for the Australian government to intervene in the case of a young Saudi woman who has been barricaded in a hotel in Thailand after she was detained while travelling to seek asylum in Australia.

Rahaf Mohammed Mutlaq al-Qunun, 18, claims she was abducted on Sunday and had her passport confiscated by Saudi Arabian diplomatic staff on arrival at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi airport.

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