Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Divorce, Saudi-Style

Saudi Divorces Wife Using Mall Microphone. Alarabiya.

UPDATE: Related story at Alarabiya. Saudi girl threatens to stab herself at mall:
A Saudi girl has threatened to stab herself to death after an officer from the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice approached her and her friends to advise them about their dresses he deemed “indecent”.

The three girls were shopping in the Sakaka old market in the northern Saudi province of Al-Jawf. When the officer rebuked them for their outfit, they got into an argument with him, and one of the girls -- in her early twenties -- bought a knife from one of the stores and threatened to stab herself if any of the Committee's officers came near her, according top Saudi daily Shams.
The "prevention of vice squad" called police and the girls now face charges.

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