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Saudi sisters in Hong Kong

Saudi sisters risk everything to flee oppression

The sisters say being forced to wear the niqab robbed them of their identities. They knew they'd be expected to wear one for the rest of their lives, like their mother.

Saudi sisters scramble for visa: 'We're not safe'

This photo was taken at the toilet airport during a trip to Turkey. The sisters wore this type of niqab when they were traveling outside Saudi Arabia.

Sisters allowed to stay one more month in HK

Two Saudi sisters who arrived in Hong Kong last September have finally left the city after being offered an emergency humanitarian visa elsewhere.

Saudi sisters free but questions remain over 6-month stay in Hong Kong

Trial of Cardinal Pell

Cardinal George Pell (R) leaves the County Court of Victoria court after prosecutors decided not to proceed with a second trial on alleged historical child sexual offences in Melbourne on February 26, 2019. - Australian Cardinal George Pell, who helped elect popes and ran the Vatican's finances, has been found guilty of sexually assaulting two choirboys, becoming the most senior Catholic cleric ever convicted of child sex crimes. (Photo by CON CHRONIS / AFP)        (Photo credit should read CON CHRONIS/AFP/Getty Images)

Cardinal Pell to take child sex conviction to the High Court

MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 27: Cardinal George Pell arrives at Melbourne County Court on February 27, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. Pell, once the third most powerful man in the Vatican and Australia's most senior Catholic, was found guilty on 11 December in Melbourne's county court, but the result was subject to a suppression order and was only able to be reported from Tuesday. The jury was unanimous in their verdict, finding Pell guilty on five counts of child sexual assault in December 1996 and early 1997 at St Patrick's Cathedral.  (Photo by Michael Dodge/Getty Images)

Pell sentenced to six years in prison for child sex abuse

Pope Francis signs a cricket bat he received from Cardinal George Pell, at the Vatican Thursday, Oct. 29, 2015. Pope Francis has received an unusual gift aimed at boosting relations between the Catholic and Anglican churches: A cricket bat signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury and his team following their recent rematch with the Vatican's XI on Rome's Campanelle grounds. Australian Cardinal George Pell, a former rugby player who nevertheless knows cricket, gave Francis the bat Thursday after the St. Peter's Cricket Club beat the Church of England's XI by 43 runs in a 20-over match this weekend. (L'Osservatore Romano/Pool Photo via AP)

How Cardinal George Pell was brought to justice

Cardinal George Pell walks to a car in Melbourne on December 11, 2018. (Photo by William WEST / AFP)        (Photo credit should read WILLIAM WEST/AFP/Getty Images)