sentences:  Zana lived in a town called Hockail and Nadia lived in Ashube.Their mother, Miriam Ali, an English woman, appealed unsuccessfully to the [[Foreign Office]] for assistance, but was told that the Yemeni government had stated that as they were now married to Yemeni men, they could only leave the country with their husbands' permission.In 1987, an "[[The Observer|Observer]]" [[journalist]], Eileen McDonald, visited the girls and wrote a series of articles portraying the Muhsens as cruelly-treated slaves.