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The announcement comes about a month after the uproar aroused by the escape of young Saudi woman Rahaf al-Qanoon from Saudi Arabia.
Saudi diplomats have blocked a bi-sister road from the kingdom to a Hong Kong airport that planned to flee to Australia, said their lawyers.
This is the second case announced for about a month for Saudi girls trying to flee the Kingdom.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is currently on a tour of Asia, a month after the awakening of a Saudi girl named Rahaf al-Qanoon, who had asked to be able to travel to another country.
Today, a lawyer named Michael Fiedler said about his clients: "These two brave young men lived in fear, out of sight and did not know what the future would bring them. reserved. "
The girls, who left Islam, arrived in China in September after fleeing the Sri Lankan family. The two women were traveling from Hong Kong airport to Australia when two Saudi diplomats blocked him.
Al-Fatatan told the lawyer that Saudi diplomats had tried to force them to board a plane bound for Saudi Arabia after the trip to Australia was canceled.
But they managed to escape and enter Hong Kong as tourists, where they have been hiding for five months.
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The two girls learned that the two men who had crossed were the Saudi consul in Hong Kong and his deputy, but they did not explain how they identified their identity, the lawyer said. .
The Saudi consulate in Hong Kong did not respond to Reuters' request to comment on the incident.
"We have fled our country for our safety and hope to have asylum in a country that respects women's rights and treats them on an equal footing," said the lawyer.
The Hong Kong authorities announced in November that the Saudi authorities had withdrawn their passports and that they could stay in the city until 28 February.
The UN refugee agency said in an email to Reuters that she had not pronounced on the cases of asylum in Hong Kong and could not comment on individual cases.
Police said that she had received a communication from two women and that she was investigating.
A spokesman for the Chinese Foreign Ministry said that he had no information about it.
Such incidents highlight the strict laws in Saudi Arabia that require women to obtain permission to travel from their parents.
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