A Saudi man has divorced his wife by text message. The man was in Iraq when he sent the SMS informing her she was no longer his spouse. He followed up with a telephone call to two of his relatives.
A court in the Red Sea city of Jeddah finalised the split - the first known divorce in Saudi Arabia by text message - after summoning the two relatives to check they had received word of the husband's intention.
Saudi Arabia practises a strict form of Islamic Sharia law, and clerics preside over Sharia courts as judges. Under the law a man can divorce his wife by saying "I divorce you" three times.
The Saudi man was in Iraq to participate in "what he described as 'jihad'." Many Saudis have gone to fight with al Qaeda militants against the Iraqi government and U.S. forces.
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