BBC Online : A former wife of the Saudi king has appealed to US President Barack Obama to help free her four daughters held captive in a royal palace.
“Since 13 years, my daughters Sahar, Maha, Hala and Jawaher are being held captive,” AFP quoted Alanoud al-Fayez, 57, as saying on Friday.
“They need to be saved and released immediately,” she added.
Fayez divorced from King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud in 2003 and has been living in
“Mr. Obama should take this opportunity to address these grave violations committed against my daughters,” she stated.
Fayez’s daughters have also complained about their situation in the Kingdom on social media.
“We have no passports or ID, we are under house arrest, with little food left for ourselves and pets,” Fayez’s eldest daughter Sahar, 42, told AFP in an email.
She also said that the royal family has been “physically and psychologically abusing” them “for years”.
She accused the royal family of “unlawfully detaining” them, saying, “On their orders, they have been literally starving us since last Wednesday. We are now living on one meal a day, leaving the little remaining meat for our pets and sipping little water in this heat, to save up. Our energy is quite low and we are trying our best to survive.”
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