"If sent back, I will be Killed!" Saudi Arabian Woman's Plea to Flee as she's Trapped in the Philippines is Heartbreaking

A Saudi Arabian woman purporting to have been held by authorities in the Philippines en route to seeking asylum in Australia has posted a desperate video message publicising her plight.



The video was posted online on Tuesday accompanied by details of Dina Ali Lasloom’s situation.


According to information shared by asylum seeker advocates, the 24-year-old woman arrived at Manila’s Ninoy Aquino International Airport on Tuesday with the intention of continuing on to Sydney to file an asylum claim when she was intercepted by authorities.


In the emotional video believed to have been posted from the airport, the woman claims she is being “held as a criminal”, and that if she is sent back to Saudi Arabia, she will be killed.


“My name is Dina Ali, I’m a Saudi woman who fled Saudi Arabia to Australia to seek asylum,” she begins.


“I stopped in the Philippines ... They look my passport and lock me for 13 hours just because I am a Saudi woman, with the collaboration of Saudi embassy.


“If my family come, they will kill me, if I go back to Saudi Arabia, I will be dead.”


In the clip, which doesn’t show the woman’s face, the woman claims the Philippines and Saudi governments are “violating human rights and international law”.


“If anything happens to me, that’s on Philippines airlines and the Saudi Arabian government,” she said.