Australia’s government has promised to consider any application for asylum from the young Saudi woman who barricaded herself in a transit hotel at Bangkok’s international airport and said her family would kill her if she returned home.
Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18 years old, held a tourist visa for Australia when she slipped away from her family during a visit to Kuwait and boarded a plane to Bangkok over the weekend. On her arrival Saturday, though, she said Saudi officials were waiting for her, where they seized her passport...