Two Saudi sisters known only as Dua and Dalal Alshowaiki are calling for assistance in seeking asylum after fleeing their homeland.
SBS Arabic24 understands that the sisters, aged 20 and 21, are currently residing in secret in Turkey and are hoping to reach Europe.
They've taken to Twitter to call on a European country to facilitate their bid for asylum.
“Our father took our passports and national identities, he is looking for us and we are at risk,” they said in a video posted to Twitter in English and Arabic.
They said that they took the chance to run away from their father during a visit to Turkey.
“We appeal to all human rights activists to help us move to a third country,” Dua said.
The sisters allege that their father had contacted Turkish intelligence to have them arrested.
Moreover, in a long thread on Twitter, they allege that they had been "subjected to domestic violence" and "severely beaten". 
Their plea for assistance has been taken up by human rights organisation Detained in Dubai.
Source: Twitter
“When I learned of their situation, I contacted them via Twitter immediately, but their account was suspended before they could reply,” CEO of Detained in Dubai Radha Stirling said in a statement.
“In fact, Twitter has closed every new account they started. Fortunately, we were able to make contact, and are in touch.
“They are young and scared, and believe that their relatives are now in Turkey trying to find them and force them back to Saudi Arabia,” Ms Stirling said, adding “we will be bringing them to UNHCR to assist them with an asylum application.”
This case is the latest in a spate of instances where Saudi women were seeking asylum and using the social media platform to disseminate information.
The sisters, who are aged between 18 and 20, didn’t reveal their identities during their 6-month journey towards receiving asylum.
In May, sisters Maha and Wafa al-Subaie, aged 28 and 25,
The UNHCR estimates that there are around 2430 Saudi refugees around the world and half of them were in the United States. The number of Saudi refugees had jumped by 135 per cent between 2014 and 2017.
The most popular case was that of Saudi teen Rahaf Alqunun who used Twitter to draw attention to her asylum bid while held inside a Thai airport.
She was granted refugee status within days of her story hitting the mainstream media, and she was eventually granted asylum in Canada.
Rahaf Alqunun stands with Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland (right) as she arrives at Toronto Pearson International Airport. Source: AAP
