Donya and Darya Javid Gonbadi, two sisters who grew up and began nursing studies near Gothenburg, were deported to Iran last October after Sweden's migration agency rejected their residency applications — a process that took nearly three years, by which time the sisters had turned eighteen and become subject to stricter adult immigration rules. Their family was permitted to remain in Sweden, while the sisters were told to apply remotely for student visas expected to take three to four weeks; the application was rejected, leaving them trapped in Iran amid ongoing bombardments. For five weeks the sisters sent no word, after writing in a WhatsApp group "goodbye, we are going to die," before a brief phone call last week confirmed they were alive but suffering severe psychological trauma; a Swedish court has now definitively rejected their final appeal, drawing widespread public outrage and calls from migrant-rights activists to change the law and refer the case to the Court of Justice of the European Union.