'Crumbs of freedom': Saudi sisters prove limits of social change

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The Al-Otaibi sisters have paid a steep price for defending women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, with one detained, another exiled, and the third trapped in the kingdom under a travel ban.

Initially, the Saudi sisters were emboldened by a social reform agenda which has led to dramatic changes in the deeply conservative Gulf country in the past seven years, including granting women the right to drive and the promotion of female sports.

But soon enough they came up against unspoken limits.

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