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		</div><p>Saudi Arabia has issued new laws that loosen restrictions on women by allowing any citizen to apply for a passport and travel freely without male consent.</p>
<p>The move is a potential game-changer for Saudi women’s rights in the kingdom.</p>
<p>The legal system was long criticised because it treated women as minors throughout their adult lives, requiring that they have a husband or father’s permission to obtain a passport or travel abroad.</p>
<p>In some cases, the male guardian was a woman’s own son granting her the necessary travel permissions.</p>
<p>Saudi women fleeing domestic abuse and the guardianship system occasionally drew international attention to their plight, being dubbed “runaways” for escaping the kingdom and seeking asylum abroad.</p>
<p>To leave the country, some Saudi women say they had to hack into their father’s phones and change the settings on a government app to allow themselves permission to leave the country.</p>
<p>The new rules, approved by King Salman and his Cabinet, allow any person 21 and older to travel abroad without prior consent and any citizen to apply for a Saudi passport on their own.</p>
<p>The decrees were published before dawn in the kingdom’s official weekly Um al-Qura gazette. It was not immediately clear if the new rules would take effect immediately.</p>
<p>Other changes issued in the decrees allow women to register a marriage, divorce or child’s birth and to be issued official family documents.</p>
<p>The changes were widely celebrated by Saudis on Twitter, but also drew criticism from some conservatives.</p>
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