10/09/2016 BBC Wales Today


10/09/2016

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A Welsh MP is urging the Foreign Office to use

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all the available resources, diplomatic and commercial,

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to ensure the safe return of a Swansea woman from Saudi

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Amina Al-Jeffrey's father has until this weekend

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to return her to the UK, after the High Court ruled he'd been

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"depriving her of her liberty" by keeping her there.

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Being kept in what she describes as a caged room, a 22-year-old woman

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with dual nationality who says she is being held against her

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Amina Al-Jeffrey was born and brought up in Swansea,

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where she was a pupil at Olchfa School until the age of 16.

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But in 2012, her father took her to Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.

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She managed to get in touch with friends in 2015, asking them

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Last month, a High Court judge ruled that she had been

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deprived of her liberty and Mohammed Al-Jeffrey should

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But with little of the court can do if her father refuses

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to allow her to return by the end of the weekend,

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Her MP says the Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson should pull out

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all the stops to ensure her liberty is secured, dismissing

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suggestions she no longer wants to come back.

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He can obviously absurd diplomatic pressure.

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Clearly we've got trade relationships with Saudi Arabia.

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There's the controversial provision of arms to Saudi Arabia.

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He needs to make sure that first and foremost Britain stands up

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If there is any suggestion she has changed her mind,

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it shouldn't be regarded as reliable.

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That would be the testimony of somebody who is in captivity.

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In a statement, the Foreign Office says it has been in contact

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with Amina Al-Jeffrey and is ready to provide her with assistance

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and will remain in contact with her legal team and with

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If she doesn't return to the UK by tomorrow, a private court hearing

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on Tuesday is due to be held to discuss what more can be done.

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The road safety charity, GoSafe, says prosecutions against drivers

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who break the variable speed limit on the M4 around Newport

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The variable speed limit camera system was originally

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set up five years ago to keep traffic flowing.

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But in July, the Welsh Government confirmed it would target those

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who "flouted" the limits with GoSafe, a police and council

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speed camera partnership, leading the initiative.

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19-year-old Sabrina Fortune from Flintshire is the first Welsh

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athletes to win a medal at Rio's Paralympic Games.

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She claimed a bronze in the F20 shot put,

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on her first appearance at a Paralympics.

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She is one of the youngest Welsh competitors at the Paralympics

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Sabrina Fortune, the 19-year-old from Mold, was in third position

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after her first role, but saved her best till last,

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12 metres 94, a personal record, and enough to secure a bronze medal.

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It was a brilliant morning too for sprinter Rhys Jones.

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He recorded a personal best in the T 37 100 metres heats,

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He won a bronze for Wales at Glasgow's Commonwealth Games.

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Elsewhere, Jack Hodgson, originally from the Vale

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of Glamorgan, has the chance to fight the bronze in the judo

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later, while Beddau's Sara Head has a must win match in the class three

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table tennis if she is to progress any further in the competition.

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Our main medal hope tomorrow from a Welsh perspective

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She switched sports after winning Paralympic gold and silver

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in the hand cycling in previous games.

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She qualified for the final of the women's single sculls

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Let's hope she can make Pembrokeshire proud tomorrow.

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Football and in the Championship, Cardiff City have been beaten 3-2

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In League Two, Newport County drew 2-2 with Cheltenham

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And in the National League, Wrexham have beaten Sutton United

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A look at the weather forecast, and evening sunshine

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will give way to a dry night with prolonged clear periods.

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Tomorrow there'll be a chilly, but sunny start for many of us.

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Cloud will increase through the day, and while most places will remain

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We're back tomorrow evening at around 6:50.

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going far beyond what the law requires.

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It has been a tale of two halves, today we've had

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