Myanmar beauty queen in Thai airport limbo, fears arrest at home

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The Thai immigration bureau said she was using invalid travel documents. Read more at straitstimes.com.

for a third day on Friday, hoping to be granted entry, as activists and her employer urged authorities not to send her back to her homeland.

The 23-year-old model, whose real name is Thaw Nandar Aung, was stopped at Bangkok's Suvarnhabhumi airport on Wednesday, when returning from a brief visit to Vietnam.The events management team that works with Ms Han Lay said they hoped she could reenter Thailand. Asked about Ms Han Lay's case on Friday, Thai foreign ministry spokesperson Tanee Sangrat said authorities"did not make an arrest and have no plans to send her anywhere at this stage".

These included an Australia-based soccer player arrested in Thailand in 2018 at the request of Bahrain for criticising its monarchy, and an 18-year-old Saudi woman who was stranded at Bangkok's airport after fleeing her family.She and her manager have said she was the subject of an Interpol red notice, the highest alert level for an individual.

 

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