{"id":426,"date":"2013-12-10T08:35:14","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T08:35:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=426"},"modified":"2013-12-09T19:38:26","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T19:38:26","slug":"saudi-woman-elopes-seeks-asylum-in-yemen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/saudi-woman-elopes-seeks-asylum-in-yemen\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi woman elopes, seeks asylum in Yemen"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h1>Saudi woman elopes, seeks asylum in Yemen<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Her outraged family alleges that her lover cast a magic spell and kidnapped her<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/polopoly_fs\/1.1257350!\/image\/2230941525.jpg_gen\/derivatives\/box_475\/2230941525.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Sana\u2019a: A Saudi woman who fled her home last month to seek asylum in Yemen said that she would rather die than be forced to return home and marry a man she did not love.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cShe has repeatedly said that she would kill herself if she was forced to return home and not be allowed to marry her beloved Arafat\u201d, Abul Rageeb Al Ghadhi, the girl\u2019s lawyer, told\u00a0<em>Gulf News<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The girl\u2019s case came to the fore when the Saudi daily\u00a0<em>Okaz<\/em>\u00a0reported in mid-October that a Saudi man\u2019s 21-year old daughter Huda had been abducted from their house in the Saudi province of Asir. Nearly ten days after her disappearance, Huda appeared before a Yemeni court saying that she was not abducted but willingly ran away from her family\u2019s home to Yemen when her family refused her beloved\u2019s marriage proposal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The girl told the Saudi website Okaz Al Youm that she and Arafat had been in contact with each other on the sly for three years. \u201cI love him and I told my family that I would only marry him.<\/p>\n<p>Read More :<a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/yemen\/saudi-woman-elopes-seeks-asylum-in-yemen-1.1257298\">http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/yemen\/saudi-woman-elopes-seeks-asylum-in-yemen-1.1257298<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saudi woman elopes, seeks asylum in Yemen Her outraged family alleges that her lover cast a magic spell and kidnapped her &nbsp; Sana\u2019a: A Saudi woman who fled her home last month to seek asylum in Yemen said that she would rather die than be forced to return home and marry a man she did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[19,7,53,4,3,8,10],"class_list":["post-426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-forced","tag-forced-marriage","tag-forced-marriage-unit","tag-halo-project","tag-haloproject","tag-honour","tag-honour-based-violence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=426"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":427,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426\/revisions\/427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}