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# 'Take My Golden Cage and Give Me the Sky.' Saudi Sisters Gain Freedom With Emergency Visas

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## Video: 'Take My Golden Cage and Give Me the Sky.' Saudi Sisters Gain Freedom With Emergency Visas

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_Published 2019-03-25. Last week, after six months of being stranded in Hong Kong, the Saudi sisters finally got their first, long-deferred taste of freedom, becoming the latest women to slip beyond the grasp of the ultraconservative Kingdom._


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## Transcript

It's like, finally! Yeah, finally. We are very happy. Yeah, very happy because we've been waiting so long and there were sometime I lost belief that I will get the visa [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] Six months, I never slept good as when I first heard the news. It was my first night that I sleep without nightmares. We decide to not say where we're going because we don't want our family back home to know where we are, To not have any problem with any Saudi authorities in that country. I'm looking to do in my new home to relieve in the beginning, to forgot all that trauma I had here six months. After that, I want to settle down, to have a A job, and also to study, complete my study to live normal life.

Leaving my house and leaving my family is a big step knowing that at least I did it, and I don't have to go through it again. It's now just past and behind me, and now there's Is a bright future in front of me so I don't want to think about the past anymore. People who hear about Saudi, they think they're rich. They don't know how life is bad there and you don't have even basic rights. So I will say Then take my golden cage and give me the sky. How can I even live a life when I can't make my smallest decisions by my own? [ MUSIC ] [ MUSIC ] I want to walk freely in the streets. I want to do my simple routine, wake up in the morning, take a walk around the place.

This is very simple but I couldn't do it in Saudi Arabia, so this is what I am looking for. [ BLANK_AUDIO ]

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