Nassrin’s family then took the women in for a few days, but then Noora’s relatives arrived and forcibly took her away. The couple stayed there “for some days”, the petition said, but “the police intervened” after their relatives traced them there. On 19 May, the women had sought refuge at the Vanaja Collective, an NGO in Kozhikode that works for LGBTIQ+ and other marginalised groups. The two Kerala women, who met as school students in Saudi Arabia, had been together for about four years and had recently decided to live together, to which their family members had allegedly responded with rage and threats.
