Saudi father sends death threat to daughter over refusal to return from Australia to marry her cousin

A Saudi father has sent a terrifying death threat to his daughter after she refused to return to Saudi Arabia to marry her cousin, according to reports.

The daughter, who is currently residing in Australia, incurred her father’s wrath after rejecting the family’s arranged marriage plans.

In a chilling text message, the father vowed to “slaughter” his daughter if she did not comply with his demands.

This threat has sparked concerns over the potential for an “honour killing,” a practice common in the Arab world but which has attracted wide condemnation globally.

The daughter reportedly left Saudi Arabia to seek freedom from the arranged marriage, which is considered common in some conservative families.

The father sent his daughter photos of two Saudi women who were found mysteriously de@d in their Sydney home.

The father asked his daughter in a text message if the photos of the de@d girls scared her and threatened her, “I swear to God I will k!ll you, I will bury you and no one will know.”

The bodies of Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, were found in their flat in Canterbury, south-west of the city, in June 2022. The sisters had fled Saudi Arabia in 2015 with only $5,000. Their remains were discovered after a two-month search by police.

Both women had active claims with Home Affairs seeking asylum at the time of their de@ths and it was suggested they were living in fear, having stayed with family in Saudi Arabia.

This father is now threatening his daughter with the same fate unless she does what he says.

The unnamed woman, who was later joined by her mother and three younger sisters in Australia, defied her father’s demands to return to her homeland to marry a cousin.

The father sent his eldest daughter a text message in Arabic with photographs of the dead women.

The message reads: “You thought you wouldn’t get it! Is the image scary?

“It will come true, I swear to God I will k!ll you, I will bury you and no one will know, I will come soon and see you.

“This is your destiny and it will be at my own hands.”