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In 2007, a Canadian woman named Nazia travelled to Saudi Arabia to visit her father. Now, he won't let her go
I have to admit that I didn't learn about this story from WomenWatch.
I was alerted to this story from a high school friend of mine through Twitter. It looks like she heard about the story from Human Right Watch's Twitter and Facebook feed which actually points to two slightly different versions of this sorry tale from the Human Rights Watch website and The Huffington Post.
This is not the traditional way one gets one's news.
It is a story that is being shared from one Canadian woman to another because one us - a 24 year old young woman with both Indian and Canadian citizenship - is being held against her will by her father in Saudi Arabia.
Furthermore, the Saudi government refuses to let Nazia leave the country without her father's consent:
I was alerted to this story from a high school friend of mine through Twitter. It looks like she heard about the story from Human Right Watch's Twitter and Facebook feed which actually points to two slightly different versions of this sorry tale from the Human Rights Watch website and The Huffington Post.
This is not the traditional way one gets one's news.
It is a story that is being shared from one Canadian woman to another because one us - a 24 year old young woman with both Indian and Canadian citizenship - is being held against her will by her father in Saudi Arabia.
In 2007, young Canadian woman named Nazia Quazi travelled to Saudi Arabia to visit her father for three months. Her father is an Indian citizen who lives and works in Saudi Arabia. Nazia's mother and siblings live in Canada. Nazia, 24, has both Indian and Canadian citizenship but has lived in Canada for much of her life.
Nazia's father has refused to let her leave Saudi Arabia and return home to Canada, which he can do under Saudi law. Nazia says that her father used deception to make himself her "mahram" under the Saudi male guardianship system, meaning that he is empowered to make all important decisions about her life.
Furthermore, the Saudi government refuses to let Nazia leave the country without her father's consent:
The Canadian embassy in Riyadh issued Nazia a temporary passport, since her father has confiscated both her Indian and Canadian passports. But in Saudi Arabia, a valid passport is not sufficient to allow a woman to leave the country.
I will be writing the Canadian government asking them to continue to press from Nazia's return to her homeland. While I'm not sure whether I'll even bother writing Saudi government of my concerns, I know I will do this: I will pass this story on to my friends and other young women I know.
Perhaps nontraditional news sources will lead to nontraditional justice for women like Nazia.
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Comment by Ethan Walden on April 10, 2010 at 12:56am
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Nice sharing. I have a friend in Iraq whom I met through micro-finance that had her 14 year-old daughter killed as collateral civil damage in a US operation.
This kind of injustices and legal impunity are unbearable, I agree.
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Comment by Michele Baron on April 10, 2010 at 1:11am
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In too many places, women are denied the opportunity to pursue their own rights and aspirations. Women are denied the freedom to choose when or whom to marry; when they bear children; when, where or if they are able to work. In the 21st century, we must accept responsibility for the imperative to fight for women's equality. Those who would flount laws and courts of justice and deny the basic human rights and freedoms to which all should be entitled should be met with the measuring scales of justice themselves. It cannot be sustainable to marginalize half the world's population. Thank you for your post.
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Comment by Mita Williams on May 10, 2010 at 10:50am
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Good news! Nazia is free -- possibly because of the mounting political pressure. The article I link to also ends with this: "In addition, a few Canadian soldiers who received medals from the Saudi government for their service in the first Gulf War have returned them to the embassy as a sign of protest."
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Comment by A.V.Koshy on May 10, 2010 at 10:57am
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this is good news mita
well done :)
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i used to be in saudi - i know what you are talking of
sad it was an indian father :(
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