She also has no feeling in her pelvis and her legs, and she cannot walk.

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As a woman, she cannot drive or walk around freely and learned quickly that she did not know the streets and different districts of Saudi Arabia particularly well.

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Speaking by phone from her home in California, she told CNN Hallums told her he had been "tied and bound" and cannot walk well.

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