Saudi Arabia grants text-message divorce
A Jeddah court finds a Saudi Arabian man's act of divorcing his wife via text-message to be in compliance with the country's law.
The unnamed Saudi citizen, who was in Iraq when he sent the text, immediately called two men who had witnessed his marriage to inform them of his decision.
The court recognized the Saudi man's decision after making sure that the two witnesses had been duly informed, The Daily Telegraph reported.
The strict law observed in Saudi Arabia allows a man to divorce his wife by simply saying "I divorce you" three times.
Women on the other hand are permitted to take their case to court but their divorce is not guaranteed.
