A Saudi asylum seeker Rahaf Mohammed Alqunun, 18, is said to on her way to Canada. A fragmented report from Associated Press says to a Thai immigration police chief would leave for Canada Friday. Rahaf has been a focus of world attention since taken off a plane at in Thailand and very nearly being sent home. That is a prospect she is said to deeply fear. She had intended to try to seek asylum in Australia. seized her passport but then returned when the teen began a widely watched Twitter campaign. By Friday, Alqunun had closed down her Twitter account. Sophie McNeill, a reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation who got in contact with Alqunun while she was stuck in the airport hotel room and has kept in touch with her, said Friday in a Twitter posting that Alqunun “is safe and fine.” “She’s just been receiving a lot of death threats,” McNeill wrote, adding that Alqunun would be back on Twitter after a “short break.” Australia throws a lifeline to Saudi teen, 18, seeking asylum
