Urgent help to escape abuse and possible death
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Urgent help for a queer afab and their younger sister escape their strict, physically and emotionally abusive family and flee the Middle East.
Our friend Sama (fake name to hide their identity) is currently being held captive by their family and heavily monitored with no phone or any electronics or way to contact anyone besides their younger sister. Sama has been friends with us for a couple of years, and the only way we have been able to go out with them and be friends with them is by hiding their lifestyle and the freedom that they seek. But unfortunately, now, their family ended up finding out about them and their opposite-gendered friends and going in public without a hijab. This is an issue because their family is extremely zealous and conservative and has threatened many times to kill them if that ever happens.
Although their family has caught them, and luckily, our friend is not dead yet, our friend has and is currently going through huge amounts of physical and mental abuse coming from all sides of their family; it's only them and their younger sister who were barely able to contact. The family made Sama quit college and their job and took all their money and devices, and now our friend is on their own under constant threat of getting killed because of who they are.
What we ask from you, anyone who wants to help, is to raise funds to help them and their younger sister escape their deadly situation and live a better life somewhere where they can be who they are without constantly getting death threats or getting abused.
The help we need is for them to escape their family and the Middle East, find shelter somewhere safe, find legal help to get them settled in a new country, and have enough money for them to settle and not have to starve in a new place.
Organizer
Anna Lena Diedrich
Organizer
Papenburg, Niedersachsen