
If forced back, she told the
New York Times, “
they will kill me.” In an interview with the newspaper, she talked about her life as a woman in Saudi Arabia:Ms. Alqunun described a life of unrelenting abuse at the hands of her family, who live in the city of Hail, in northern Saudi Arabia.She said she was once locked in a room for six months because she had cut her hair in a way that her family did not approve of. And she said her family used to beat her, mostly her brother.