Saudi Sisters Stranded in Hong Kong After Holiday Escape
The pair, aged 18 and 20, hide from their family in safe houses, fearing deportation to conservative Middle Eastern kingdom, where renouncing Islam can carry a death sentence
HONG KONG—Two Saudi sisters face deportation from Hong Kong after what they describe as an escape from their ultraconservative and abusive family, among the latest women to flee the Middle Eastern kingdom seeking a freer life abroad.
The two sisters, aged 18 and 20, said they felt like slaves under Saudi Arabia’s male guardianship laws, which require women to seek their male overseer’s permission to do everything from attending college to traveling abroad. They said they waited until a family vacation to Sri Lanka in September,...