LA-based dissident claims he was target of kidnapping attempt by Saudi Arabia
LOS ANGELES — A Saudi dissident living in Los Angeles said U.S. authorities granted him political asylum after he claimed that the Middle Eastern kingdom attempted to extract him from the United States as a result of his criticism of the crown prince.
Abdulrahman Almutairi told the Los Angeles Times he was a student at the University of San Diego in late 2018 when his father and an unknown Saudi man arrived unannounced at Los Angeles International Airport, where U.S. authorities intercepted the two men and sent them home.
FBI agents told Almutairi what had happened at LAX and said they were investigating the matter, he said.
Akram Abusharar, an immigration attorney in Orange County, said he presented Almutairi’s story to the Los Angeles political asylum office, which he said concluded that the 27-year-old would likely be “killed, tortured or even disappear” if he were forced to return home. Almutairi was granted political asylum in July, said the lawyer, who took on the case pro bono.
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