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She just goes outside

Jan 13th, 2019 2:12 pm | By

The BBC has the story of another young woman who escaped Saudi Arabia. (It sounds Dramatic, doesn’t it, but it’s the reality – all women are held prisoner in Saudi Arabia. Some may be lucky enough to have liberal male relatives who don’t use their power to keep women prisoner, but it’s always a matter of luck – the law is that women and girls have no rights without male permission.)

As the debate about women’s rights in the country continues, another young woman who fled Saudi Arabia for Canada has told her story to the BBC.

Salwa, 24, ran away with her 19-year-old sister eight months ago and now lives in Montreal. This, in her own words, is

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