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- Saudi law says every woman must have a male guardian, who has enormous power over her life and travel.
- The Saudi government has digitized parts of the guardian system, letting Saudi men manage women's lives online.
- INSIDER spoke with Shahad al-Mohaimeed, a refugee who navigated this system to flee her family in 2017.
- Guardians can specify when and from which airports women can travel, effectively trapping them in Saudi Arabia.
- The system includes a text-messaging system that alerts men when women use their passports. They are often able to catch them as a result.
- The system has existed for years, but it has come under renewed scrutiny after the high-profile asylum claim of the Saudi teen Rahaf Mohammed.
- INSIDER also spoke with activists and women's-rights experts to highlight the full extent of the system.
Shahad al-Mohaimeed got up at midnight to leave her hotel room overlooking the blue water of Trabzon, a Turkish vacation town on the Black Sea. Her family picked the hilly, historic port because it offered a seaside break, but within an Islamic society.
Creeping barefoot out of the bedroom, al-Mohaimeed gathered her family's credit cards, keys, passports, and, crucially, their phones. This would slow them down, she thought, when they tried to follow her.
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