Originally Posted by
Juntaa
I do realise I asked the forum for advice and didn’t get the answers I was hoping to get. So I went to the perhaps most reliable source, the embassy and the airline’s headquarter. I appreciate your concern however one has to treat information coming from an embassy as the most reliable one.
Besides, I believe anyone would act according to an embassy statement. I will update you whether I got detained in Riyadh or made it to my destination
The embassy is not at all a reliable source of information. There are many, many posts over the years here about embassies giving out wrong information. The most authoritative source would be the Saudi Foreign Ministry
http://www.mofa.gov.sa/sites/MofaEN/Pages/Default.aspx or even better the division of police who man the airport immigration.
It's a risk I would not take, but good luck!