I normally cover topics or ideas, rather than global news and current events
But something happened in the last day or two that I just can't pull myself away from.
This is Amna Aljuaid, a Saudi Arabian girl who tried to flee the country in an attempt to escape a physically and emotionally
abusive father, who had just arranged a forced marriage between her and her cousin.
The only problem in Saudi Arabia
women are prohibited from travelling outside of the home without a male guardian's permission, in this case, her father's.
I have no protection,
any kind of protection, from my other members of my family or the government
Or anybody.
Actually the government
already criminalizing me because I left home and
And that's a crime and you get jailed for that and lashed if a woman
leaves her
Family home even if they were abusers.
After being brought back by the Saudi government
She fled again this time to the house of a foreign friend where she sought shelter and recorded this video
stating that should it go public. She's either dead or in prison.
And this is far from the first such story.
Never actually got the chance to practice the religion that I want to
accomplish the dreams and just live the life that I once I've seen in my life pass me by.
Last year, I lost track of three Saudi sisters whom I've helped.
Who fled the country and stayed in Malaysia to escape the sexual abuse of their guardian
and who were forcibly retained by a private Saudi force to Riyadh.
Even if we try to leave the country they try to go after us like what happened to Dina Ali.
Earlier this year Dina Ali attempted to flee from Saudi Arabia to Australia for asylum.
But was detained by officials in the Philippines, then bound and sent back on plane with her abusive uncles,
who told her that as soon as they made it back to Saudi Arabia, they were going to kill her.
The subject of Saudi woman causing the Saudi government international embarrassment
so they want to make sure that these women
and when they flee the country they don't speak about what's going on inside Saudi Arabia
I just don't know why is it difficult, why the hell is it difficult to just give me my rights and let me live in peace.
Why can't you just protect me from my abusers?
It's really easy, It's, I think even the poorest countries have it, why don't we have it here?
We're a developed country, and it's just nonsense that when I call the
The domestic violence number and they they tell me that,
"No, you need to come, so you can file the report."
And I'm telling them that
"I can't come I'm imprisoned in the house. I was just abused and the door is locked
"Why can't you just come and just save me?"
And they don't, they don't come, they
Want you to come and not just the fact that they want you to come,
they want you to bring one of the male members of your family
No matter what age you are,
they still want a male to be with you, to escort you.
The last update that I heard before putting out this video was from the Twitter account
that's handling the Amna story and trying to post updates.
They contacted Amna's family and the got back three different responses as to what happened to her,
and it was very cryptic and it's not exactly clear where she is,
Some people have said that she was arrested, some people say that she's with her family
But the fact is it may not be too late to save her, to help her get this story out there
Email it, tweet it, send it to every single news agency that you can possibly think of
send it to your government representatives, your congressmen, your senators, presidents
Whoever, because the more that we talk about stories like this, the more that we talk about the guardianship system in Saudi Arabia
Using hashtags like, "I am my own Guardian" and "stop enslaving Saudi women", the sooner we will see change.
Share this video, share Amna's video, get her story out there. Many of these women don't have a voice, but you do.
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