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 A father accused of imprisoning his daughter in Saudi Arabia said he was "trying to help" her, a court was told. 
 
 Mohammed Al-Jeffery says he took Amina Al-Jeffery, 21, from Swansea to Jeddah in 2012 to "save her life". 
 
 The dual British and Saudi Arabian national wants to return to the UK and claims she is being held against her will and denied food and water. 
 
 Her lawyers are asking the High Court in London to come to her aid. Her father disputes the allegations. 
 
 The case has concluded with judgement reserved until Wednesday. 
 
 Her father has claimed she had become "reckless", taking drugs in her teenage years and accused the British government of "doing nothing". 
 
 Representing Mr Al-Jeffery, Marcus Scott-Manderson QC told the judge, Mr Justice Holman: "The father says today he does not want to discuss Amina's return. 
 
 "He does not want to speak to m'lord. He says that is because [of] what he has seen in the media. 
 
 "He wants to help Amina... he says he brought her to Saudi Arabia to help her." 
 
 Image copyright John Allan/Geograph Image caption The case is being heard at the Family Division of the High Court in London 
 
 During the hearing on Wednesday, barristers representing her said it had been difficult to receive instructions from her - but she had spoken to a member of staff at the British Consulate in Jeddah. 
 
 She told them there had been a practice of "locking her in her room", and her younger sister had been told she was an "evil girl". 
 
 She described "metal bars" on her bedroom and being a "locked-up girl with a shaved head", her lawyers said. 
 
 Mr Scott-Manderson said her father "says it's not true that he shaved Amina, he says Amina did that because she wanted to be shaved". 
 
 The judge is considering whether to make an order that she be brought back to the UK, or allowed to meet with the British Consulate without her father being present. 
 
 The judge said: "There are limits on the powers of enforcement - there are no reciprocal agreements between the UK and Saudi Arabia." 
 
 Mr Scott-Manderson added: "The father says Amina was at risk in Britain and the British government did nothing to help her. 
 
 "That's not a criticism of the British people, but he says Amina is reckless and cannot help herself and he has to help her. 
 
 "He says that the applicant's solicitor has been in contact throughout, he says, with the applicant." 
 
 Mr Justice Holman asked if Mr Scott-Manderson was able to elaborate on what she was at risk of in Britain. 
 
 Mr Scott-Manderson relayed his client's concerns, claiming she had not been focusing on school, had been taking drugs, "going to clubs and spending time with older men". 
 
 He said the Saudi government was paying Mr Al-Jeffery's legal bills, via the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs. ||||| Image copyright Handout Image caption Amina Al-Jeffery claims she is being kept in a caged room in Saudi Arabia 
 
 A woman who claims her father has kept her locked up against her will in Saudi Arabia must be allowed to return to Britain, a UK judge has ruled. 
 
 Amina Al-Jeffery, 21, who was born and brought up in Swansea, was taken to Jeddah in 2012 by her father, Mohammed, who said he did it to "save her life". 
 
 Mr Al-Jeffery has denied the allegations at the High Court. 
 
 But Mr Justice Holman said she had been "deprived of her liberty" and her father must facilitate her return. 
 
 Ms Al-Jeffery, who has dual nationality, says her father took the action against her will after she "kissed a guy". 
 
 Delivering the court order, Mr Justice Holman said Mr Al-Jeffery "must permit and facilitate the return of Amina if she so wishes to Wales or England and pay the airfare" by 11 September. 
 
 Media caption It's been a "compelling" case says lawyer Anne-Marie Hutchinson QC 
 
 However, he accepted there was "little or nothing this court could do" to enforce the order if Mr Al-Jeffery "was determined not to comply with it". 
 
 But he said Mr Al-Jeffery might face contempt of court proceedings if he returned to Britain without having complied. 
 
 Mr Justice Holman added: "There are no conventions between Britain and Saudi Arabia. The courts in Saudi Arabia would not even recognise the basis of the claim, because it does not recognise dual nationality." 
 
 Her lawyer, Anne-Marie Hutchinson QC, said she has been unable to take instruction from Ms Al-Jeffery, who sent her emails in December 2015. 
 
 Media caption "She said it was like prison" - a friend of Amina Al-Jeffery speaks to Newsnight 
 
 She said she had been "physically abused" and there were times when she had not been allowed to leave her room, meaning she had to use it as a toilet. 
 
 She described having her head smacked against the wall. 
 
 Ms Hutchinson later told BBC Newsnight it had been a "difficult" but "compelling" case to work on. 
 
 "I'm absolutely delighted that the judge has said he has got jurisdiction and that he has gone on to exercise his jurisdiction and make orders. 
 
 "I'm expecting him [Mr Al-Jeffery,] to comply with the order," she said. 
 
 Mr Al-Jeffery, who did not attend the case, denied his daughter wanted to return to England or Wales. 
 
 He said he put up a barrier partition to stop her running away because he was concerned for her welfare, which was taken down on the advice of the authorities. 
 
 He said he wanted to make sure Ms Al-Jeffery was safe and was not being mistreated. 
 
 Analysis by Sarah Campbell, BBC News Correspondent 
 
 Neither Amina nor her father were in court to hear the ruling. And the question now is what difference a ruling in the High Court of England and Wales will make in Saudi Arabia. 
 
 Mr Justice Holman said he accepted that there is "little or nothing" this court could do to enforce the order if Amina's father was determined not to obey or comply with it. 
 
 Certainly the basis on which it was granted, that Amina has dual British and Saudi nationality, is not recognised in Saudi Arabia. And it is perhaps telling that Mohammed Al-Jeffery's legal costs have been paid for by the Saudi embassy. 
 
 However, the judge stated that to do nothing "would in my view amount to a dereliction towards Amina". 
 
 The court was told that in April Mr Al-Jeffery instigated legal proceedings against his daughter in Jeddah "seeking parental control over his child for the purposes of caring and supervision". 
 
 Legal documentation showed both father and daughter agreed to a reconciliation. 
 
 But Mr Justice Holman said that meant if "she were to run away the police, far from offering her protection from her father, would put her in prison". 
 
 Image caption A school yearbook photograph of Amina Al-Jeffery 
 
 Mr Justice Holman said: "If Amina chooses to remain voluntarily in Saudi Arabia she must of course adhere to the law and culture of that society but the current constraint is denying to her the ability to be British and to live in Britain. 
 
 "It is true that she is currently present and habitually resident in Saudi Arabia, but that is due to her obedience to her father in 2012. She did not travel there of her own free will." 
 
 He said Mr Al-Jeffery "voluntarily chose to live for many years in Wales, to educate and bring his children up here... and to accept the constraints of the legal system of England and Wales". 
 
 The judge said the fact Ms Al-Jeffery was born and brought up in Britain until she was almost 17 was a "very significant factor" in his decision. 
 
 The court was told Mr Al-Jeffery's wife, from whom he is not estranged, and several of his children continue to live in the UK. 
 
 Swansea West MP Geraint Davies has written to Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to demand immediate action over the case. 
 
 The former Swansea schoolgirl has been in touch with friends in the UK and asked them to contact the British Embassy to inform them of her situation, and has also sent a picture of what she claimed was the caged room her father had kept her in. 
 
 In a statement, the Foreign Office said: "We recognise that this is a distressing time for Ms Al-Jeffery. We have been providing assistance to her since the case was first brought to our attention and will continue to do so. 
 
 "British embassy staff have met with her to check on her welfare and helped her speak to lawyers in the UK." ||||| A 21-year-old Welsh woman who says she has been imprisoned by her father in Saudi Arabia because she "kissed a guy" has asked a British High Court judge for help. 
 
 Amina Al-Jeffery, who grew up in Swansea and has dual British and Saudi Arabian nationality, claims she is banned from using the internet, phone and bathroom. 
 
 She has also said her father hit her and says she has "metal bars" on her bedroom door. 
 
 She described herself as a "locked-up girl with a shaved head", the judge was told.
– A 21-year-old Welsh woman says that, because she "kissed a guy," her father shaved her head and locked her up, putting metal bars on her bedroom door and preventing her from using the phone and internet—or even the bathroom, instead forcing her to urinate in a cup. Amina Al-Jeffery grew up in Wales and has dual British and Saudi Arabian citizenship, and says her father Mohammed Al-Jeffery, a 60-something academic, took her to Saudi Arabia four years ago, where he has kept her imprisoned and physically abused her, the Independent reports. Lawyers representing her are now in London asking a court to help her. It's not clear how they learned of her, though the BBC reports that she alerted the British Consulate in Jeddah to her situation. Her lawyers say it has been difficult to communicate with her. "Her treatment has extended to depriving her of food and water, depriving her of toilet facilities, physical assault, and control of her ability to marry who she wishes and creating a situation in which she feels compelled to marry as a means of escape," one of her lawyers said, per the Telegraph. Mohammed Al-Jeffery disputes his daughter's claims; he says he took her to Saudi Arabia to "save her life," and that he "fear[s] she will go back to her old destructive lifestyle" if she is returned to the UK. That lifestyle involved taking drugs, not focusing on her education, and "going to clubs and spending time with older men," his lawyer says. Mohammed Al-Jeffery also says Amina shaved her own head. The judge is considering whether he has the power to make an order relating to someone living abroad, and suggested Amina request sanctuary at the British Consulate. (Police say an autistic woman was kept outdoors in a crate.)