Bizarre development in intriguing suspicious deaths of two Saudi sisters as cops now claim the family is REFUSING to help them – after revelations that the sisters denounced Islam and fled to Australia with $5,000.
Daily Mail (h/t Thereza B) The mysterious deaths of two Saudi sisters living in Sydney has taken another strange turn, with police backflipping on initial claims their family had been cooperating with investigators.
Asra Abdullah Alsehli, 24, and Amaal Abdullah Alsehli, 23, were found dead inside their Canterbury unit in the city’s south-west on June 7, five years after they fled their homeland and arrived in Australia with $5,000 in savings.
For weeks, NSW Police assured media the sisters ‘well-connected’ family in the Saudi kingdom were ‘cooperating’ and ‘helping’ with the investigation.
But it has since been alleged that the family blocked detectives from releasing photographs of the women as part of a public appeal to shed light on the baffling case. Police confirmed to Daily Mail Australia their photos and identities were released in consultation with the coroner – not the sisters’ family – almost two months after their bodies were found.
Youssef al-Qaradawi, who is a leader in the Muslim Brotherhood, says, “If we abolished the punishment for apostasy, Islam wouldn’t exist today.”
Until now, investigators always insisted the family were cooperating with investigators and had ‘no reason’ to believe the Alsehli sisters fled their homeland.
Investigators believe the women died in May, around the time they stopped paying rent. The coroner has not released the bodies of the sisters to their family, although it is understood they could be buried in Sydney. Police are to yet rule out homicide or suicide as investigations continue.
It’s also been revealed the sisters were both seeking protection from the Australian government as more details about their attempts to build a normal life here emerged. They had an active claim for asylum in progress with the Department of Home Affairs, it has been confirmed. The reasons they sought protection from the Australian government, detailed in their claim, are not known.
Reports published in Middle Eastern newspapers on Friday said the sisters had renounced Islam.
Rifqa Bary is alive. She ran to Florida and escaped the fate her father had in mind for her – execution for leaving Islam and becoming a Christian.
The sisters only left the Canterbury unit to study at TAFE, to go shopping or to work, their former landlord from a property they rented at Fairfield revealed to The Guardian. The ‘shocked’ landlord claimed their mother visited the sisters in Sydney but didn’t like Australia and left after only a brief visit.
News outlets based in Yemen shed more light on the mysterious situation – reporting that the women fled their homeland with a wad of cash in 2017 due to a tumultuous relationship with their parents. They were also reported to have renounced Islam and became atheists. One had a boyfriend in Sydney.
According to Ana Yemenyi and Tomorrow’s Yemen, the sisters were on a summer holiday with their family when they jumped on a plane to Sydney, via Hong Kong. The sisters then connected with an Australian refugee organisation. It is understood they were on bridging visas in Australia.
Local news outlets said their brother was expected to make a public appeal to encourage any potential killer to come forward, but the family have so far remained silent. The Consulate of Saudi Arabia in Sydney has offered its condolences to the family, who are believed to be ‘well connected’.
The penalty for apostasy from Islam is death.
Deborah says
At least their deaths are being investigated as murders. More troubling to me is the two Saudi runaway sisters here in the U.S. whose bodies washed up on the shores of the Hudson River, bound together face-to-face and around the feet, whose deaths were dismissed as “suicide” by the Medical Examiner. They never even got a chance at justice.
Pray Hard says
https://www.fox4news.com/news/honor-killing-trial-opening-statements-begin-tuesday-for-father-accused-of-murdering-two-daughters
BareNakedIslam says
WOW, that was one of the first stories I ever posted on this blog, back in 2008.
Jack Rider says
such morbid stupidity expressed from the mouths of imams who would urge the islamic faithful to go and kill someone who merely followed their conscience and chose a different path to salvation. a religion that requires the murder of those who would leave it is not one based on the true revelations of the Almighty. islam is a savage cult of criminals submitted their innate moral compass to a cult of death, self-righteousness and intolerance. it’s an incredible outrage: a father of a daughter he as helped conceive, brought into this world, fed and nurtured that daughter toward her own individualized womanhood would feel it’s a virtuous act to take her life for seeing the world differently (and i would add, beautifully). in what realm can such madness be manifest – only in islam.
Linda Rivera says
Poor girls. I hope they came to know the ONE TRUE GOD, the HOLY ONE, our Precious, Wonderful Creator, and His Son, Beautiful Saviour, Jesus Christ, before they were murdered.
andrewblackadder says
How strange it appears that muslims are more interested in my belief about their Fascist Religious Cult then I am interested in what they think of my beliefs.
They care what I say about them however I dont give a shit what they say about me, as it seems I am important to them but they mean nothing whatsoever to me…
So who is deeper in their faith.
When I left the Church of Scotland aged 10 or 11 they told me they would pray for my Soul, I told them to stop wasting their time, however if I was a muslim and said Im outta here they would kill me even if I was a child..
Big difference there eh?.
Cleavis Nowell says
In the crescent hyena ideology females are only breeders or suicide bombers. Their ‘family’ is not mourning them.
BLR says
cover , method , motive , opportunity , definitely revenge for family honor case closed if you are an under study of BNI if not and rely on confession it will remain an open homicide cold case unsolved
Pray Hard says
It’s what Yusuf Islam said so it must be true.
Pray Hard says
Only the congenitally uninformed and or some Biden disciple would think otherwise.
charlotte says
Of course they were murdered. I read somewhere that they were worried their food may be poisoned. They ordered food and groceries to be deliverd which was left outside their apartment. I didnt know that their mother had visited. The govt needs to name the well connected Saudi family.