Posted on 01/24/2019 8:47:33 AM PST by SeekAndFind
In October, the bodies of two Saudi Arabian sisters, Tala Farea, 16, and Rotana Farea, 23, washed up on the New York city waterfront. Authorities feared foul play.
But yesterday, the medical examiner said the two young women committed suicide. Friends say that the sisters said they would kill themselves before returning to Saudi Arabia.
Their fully clothed bodies were discovered Oct. 24 near the river, two months after they were last seen in Fairfax, Virginia, where they had been living in a shelter amid allegations that they were abused at home.
Police said the sisters had been in Manhattan since Sept. 1, staying at expensive hotels and ordering in pairs of meals until a credit card they were using maxed out. A jogger said he saw them praying at a playground near the river, sitting about 30 feet apart with their heads in their hands, hours before their bodies were found, police said.
The deaths shined a light on the secretive and risky journeys Saudi women take to flee their homes in the kingdom and abroad. Under the kingdom's guardianship system, women must have the approval of a male relative - such as a father, husband, brother, or even a son - to marry, obtain a passport or travel.
New York City Police Chief of Detectives Dermot Shea said people who knew the Farea sisters in Virginia told investigators that they made statements within the last year indicating "that they would rather inflict harm on themselves - commit suicide - than return to Saudi Arabia."
Recently, another Saudi teen girl, Rahaf Al-Qunun, barricaded herself in her hotel room in Thailand rather than return home. She was granted asylum by Canada.
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The media always shows their rare, conservative as hell photos.
They were muuuuuuch, much more Americanized that the media-selected photos show.
Those photos show a pair of girls who would really, REALLY piss-off conservative muslims.
I’m inclined to consider them as murdered.
I’m not sold that it was suicide.
Two bodies duct-taped together “commit suicide” in 4 feet of water. Yah sure...
Total bull this was suicide.
Honor killing and the MSM doesn’t want to point out the obvious - or the police apparently.
Reminds me of the rape gangs in England going unchecked year after year because it’s non-PC to prosecute foreign criminals.
In fact they were more at-home than even these photos show.
The media will always show them covered, no make-up at all, unsmiling: Their passport photos taken from when they were back in SA.
Questioning the official narrative automatically makes you a ‘conspiracy theorist’, don’t you know?
Just how do two people manage to duct tape themselves together effectively? And then get to the water?
They’d have been better going back. Who are the people they left behind who are in grief because of their rejection, not just of all people, but life itself. If they were mentally ill, that’s excusable.
This reminds me we’re just a week away from World Hijab Day, February 1, where Progressive women the world over celebrate the Islamic subjugation of women.
Maybe, but I can understand why these girls might prefer death to being imprisoned in that hellhole, likely married off to an uncle or a cousin and never able to leave the house without permission.
Just like Vince Foster managing to shoot himself in the back of the head with a rifle
Trouble believeing two girls would choose to commit suicide in the manner people are saying.
Its sad they couldn’t see a better way out of their situation. It is a great big world with lots of places to run to.
I’m 100% with you.
I hope youre not serious.
This was not a suicide; They were murdered.
And you are sadly mistaken if you believe that their family members are grieving. Their family is rejoicing that they are dead because their family are responsible for their deaths. Ever hear of honor killings?
The hard truth is that, in Saudi Arabia, females are considered property and are regarded as worthless.
So, who is going to pay off their maxed out Credit Card Bill?
Why didn’t they just go to Canada?
Is this OUR fault now?
Statement from the women’s march..... crickets
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