Saudi divorces wife for watching male TV host: Report

Agencies

Posted online: Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 0000 hrs IST

Riyadh, September 29:
A Saudi man divorced his wife for watching alone a television programme presented by a male, an act he deemed immoral.

The man ended his marriage on the grounds his wife was effectively alone with an unrelated man, which is forbidden under the strict Islamic law enforced in the ultra-conservative kingdom, the Al Shams newspaper reported on Saturday.

Men in Saudi Arabia have the authority to divorce their wives without resort to the courts.