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Claim: Refugee Agency and Pleas

claim: Instead, she has been allowed to enter Thailand temporarily under the protection of the U.N. refugee agency, which was expected to take about five to seven days to study her case and her claim for asylum, according to CTV. She said she wants to go to Australia to seek refuge there. Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun grabbed global attention when she sent out pleas for help via social media, saying she feared for her life if she were put on a plane back to Kuwait, where she had slipped away from her family, or her homeland. We will not send anyone to die. We will adhere to human rights under the rule of law, said Thai Immigration Police chief Maj. We will not do that. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.