Saudi sisters ‘thrilled to announce’ a start to a new life, leaving Georgia
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Maha and Wafa al-Subaie, two Saudi sisters who fled their country and family and sought refuge in Georgia, have just posted on Twitter that they are departing for a new country to start a new life.
They have released a video showing them holding Georgian passports as they were provided with asylum in Georgia.
We are still in disbelief this is happening and we cannot express how happy we are to have found a new home,” they say in their twitter posts.
Earlier in April the girls posted on Twitter they were in Georgia and needed UNHCR protection as their brothers and father also were in Georgia looking for them.
The Georgian Interior Ministry sent the girls to a special protected shelter.
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Employees of the Georgian Interior Ministry have visited two Saudi sisters at their temporary location in Tbilisi, after the sisters posted on Twitter yesterday and asked for help because of the possible threats they faced from their family members.
Two Saudi sisters, who have fled their country and family, have tweeted that they are in Georgia and are in urgent need of UNHCR protection as their brothers and father have come to Georgia looking for them.
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