Two Saudi sisters who had been hiding in Hong Kong after an aborted attempt to seek asylum in Australia have left for a third country on humanitarian visas.
, fleeing what they describe as an abusive family and a repressive society.
The sisters spoke to Reuters in a Hong Kong hotel shortly before they left the city. Also present was HK-based rights lawyer Michael Vidler, who has been helping them.They said they had lived in fear for six months, shuttling between 15 safe houses, staying with a nun, families and at a shelter for abused women.
"To ensure their future security we will not be disclosing the third country where the sisters are now living, nor will we be providing any further details," he wrote on the Facebook page of his law firm."The sisters will not be giving any further media interviews."The sisters said they were treated harshly, at times beaten, by their brothers and father.
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