Two sisters from Salafi Arabia face imminent deportation back there, if they don't get a visa today. That would be followed by execution or life in solitary confinement.

I would urge them to commit a spectacular suicide before Hong Kong agents capture them and condemn them to a far worse fate. This rational martyrdom would deal a heavy blow to the misogynist theocracy of Salafi Arabia. It's not what they deserve — life in freedom is what they deserve — but it may be the best end they can get.

It is easy to imagine doing what is heroic, harder to do it. It is easier to analyze a bad situation when one is not suffering the stress of being in it. I don't know whether I would be able to follow my own advice, but I hope I could.

I urge Australians to reprove their government for cutting off the sisters' escape.