Three years ago, Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun went viral. Overnight, she became known as the “Saudi runaway” – an 18-year-old whose increasingly desperate tweets highlighted her attempt to flee Saudi Arabia and begin a new life, free from human rights abuses and a life behind a veil.

She had escaped in the dead of night while on a family holiday in Kuwait City, catching a flight to Thailand in the hope of travelling on to Australia. Trapped in Bangkok airport while the authorities threatened to send her back to her family, the student became a global sensation, the face of female oppression. Her plight was covered by TV channels around the world. Just three months after the violent death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the consulate