Ghada Al Fadl, Saudi mother of 3 young children left the Kingdom of Saudi in 2010 because her shop was constantly raided by the religious police and they had allegedly harrassed her for no apparent reason.
She fled to Syria with her 2 children, met her lover during the period of her stay and both had taken the decision to get married and register their marriage under the Saudi Ministry.
Due to her lover being a Syrian foreigner, the Saudi Ministry refused to marry them and had wanted Ghada who was pregnant with her third child at the time, to go under a pregnancy test to see if the child’s Father was the Syrian man she had planned to marry.
After the refusal to have her body violated for unjust purposes, she and her lover with the children fled to Greece, illegally through the borders of Turkey where they are currently residing now.
Ghada and her family have been trying to get asylum for years within Greek paremeters however the United Nations in Greece had told her that they consider Saudi Arabia a “safe country” and for that reason, they are not able to help her. The second time around she was then told her case was something only the Greek Government can intervene in.
Ghada continued to seek for assistant within an Asylum/Refugee Center in Greece where her case has been pending for almost 2 years without being informed of any progress.
To make matters worse, the Saudi Arabian embassy in Greece had caught on to Ghada’s social media plea for help which went slightly viral as her story saw itself in big media outlets such as the BBC.
The Saudi Embassy had made efforts to get in touch with Ghada by vigorously texting and calling her in odd hours of the mornings and evenings, threatening her to take down her Twitter account and that they will forcibly take her back to the Kingdom where she would be separated from her children and lover.
Since Ghada’s extended family is in Saudi, the Saudi officials would sometimes communicate to Ghada through her family in the hopes that she would oblige to the threats.
The Ambassador of the Saudi Embassy in Greece has also had a very negative role to play in the midst of Ghada’s case and continues to do so even today.
1. I called the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry and I was told that they can't do anything about her case, 2 female members of the Ministry purposefully blocked the call on me during the conversation twice.
2. The UN headquarters in Greece told me that they can't assist Ghada, there's nothing that they could do.
My dear supporters, this woman and her family are in great danger if help is not received. The Saudi Embassy know where she and her family live and they won't leave them alone.
I fear that they might become aggressive to the point of somebody getting hurt. They did it to Jamal Khashoggi and although his case was completely different, the fact of the matter is a woman being in Greece does not eliminate an embassy to react from the orders of its representatives to destroy her.
Yesterday my Twitter account was reacting. My tweet updates about Ghada’s case kept mysteriously dissappearing within the time span of 5–10secs everytime I had tagged her.
I know my activity is under surveillance on Whatsapp and Twitter but it was going to happen eventually since I am advocating and disagreeing with their regime.
If only they knew that I am not here to start a conflict. But rather I want them to actually start rationalising like Human beings who have hearts that should not be made of stone.
I fail to understand how the Saudi Royal family can pleasantly live their lives. Because some of the wealth that they have was through under people's tears.
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