Again and again, Saudi cal women, who fled to Germany, threats to their families. The DW has spoken with four Affected. In the room the suspicion that your message could be involved.
“Where are you hiding? We know that you’re in your apartment.” Ayasha flakes. “We will get you. Also if you go to the end of the world. We have people who can make you.”
Ayasha* sits barefoot in sweatpants and a T-Shirt to have in your kitchen, in front of a folder. In it, she has collected all the threatening messages. Printed by an official interpreter translated into German. In the folder, this message: “The Embassy has people who can get by the municipality information about you out.” You know, the Saudi number. The threats come from your family in Saudi Arabia.
Whatsapp messages to Ayasha of her family from Saudi Arabia: “answer me. Where are you hiding. We know that you’re in your apartment. We will get you. Also if you go to the end of the world. We have people who can make you.”
Ayasha is in her early 30’s and lives as a refugee in Germany. They fled from their family and front of a System that treated adult women as Minors. For almost all Saudi women require the permission of a male guardian.
So it was with Ayasha: Where she went, she was accompanied by one of her brothers. Or a driver brought and picked up again. Then you should marry a man she had never seen before. And the was her from the first Moment unsympathetic. Ayasha forged a daring escape Plan. You have stolen the mobile phone of her father and him, so to speak, with his own petard, she says.
Control by means of the “Absher”
The father had used an App, with the help of which he could control them. It is a matter of “Absher”, E-Service program, which is available on the website of the saudi Arabian Ministry of the interior. “Absher” is easily free of charge in the App Store for Android and Apple available.
More than 11 million Users have installed the program already, will be announced on the Homepage. With the help of this App, men can register the names and passport numbers of their women, and then freely travel bans for you to enter.
In the case of Absher, there is a separate section with the title “travel permits for members of” – where men can register their wives or daughters
For Ayasha Absher was “on” from curse to blessing: It succeeded, the password of your father’s for the App to reset and to apply for a new one. Then you’ve issued yourself a trip permit and had increased in August 2017 on a plane to Germany. “I had nothing to lose,” she says.
As you requested, after the landing of asylum, their path led automatically according to Halberstadt, Germany – a small town in the Eastern German state of Saxony-Anhalt. Here, in Halberstadt, the Federal office for Migration and refugees (BAMF) keeps a field office. It is the only nationwide, asylum applications from Saudi-edited Arabia.
“You will lose your life”
For the duration of your asylum procedure, the Refugees usually live in the Central refugee arrival center in Halberstadt. The four Saudi women, with those of the DW in recent weeks has spoken to, are convinced, that you were here of other Refugees from the Arab chamber will listen to. One of the women be refunded in the presence of the DW a complaint against her husband in Saudi Arabia and against a former Camp roommate, from Halberstadt. One and a half hours, the officials will take your report.
Concrete evidence is lacking. It comes to suspicions, such as in the case of Nurah and Mashaael, not even so long in Germany as Ayasha. Shortly after their arrival, there was also the matter with the disturbing Whatsapp messages. “Do you think we don’t know, where are you?”, standing there suddenly on the screen. And: “The Saudi Embassy has given us the information. You will lose your life.” Both women experienced the threats as psychological terror. “There are so many Saudi women who never had the Chance to escape,” says Mashaael. “This is the opportunity for us to be their voice.”
The Federal interior Ministry in Berlin, on demand of the DW, to have no knowledge about possible spies within the arrival facilities in Saxony-Anhalt. And points out that “the operation lies in the competence of the Länder”.
From the land of the Ministry of the interior in Saxony-Anhalt, the DW gets the following answer:
“The issue regarding use of the saudi Arabian refugees in Saxony-Anhalt, is known. The Authorities have developed procedures, possible Risk for the Affected by the appropriate measures to deal with it.”
What problem specifically is meant and what can be taken for measures, the Ministry also issued on request no further information.
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“Under the circumstances, the death penalty”
Other cases go less well. By Dina Ali. Also they tried to escape in April 2017 to Australia. In the Philippines, it was stopped and, after Saudi Arabia deported. Since then, lacking any trace of her.
“If women are brought back against their will, they can be because of disobedience and loss of reputation accused,” says Rothna Begum of human rights organization Human Rights Watch. You could get long prison sentences and even the death penalty. Begum confirmed to DW that the Human Rights Watch cases are known in which “women of Saudi authorities, under pressure to return to their families.”
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