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Saudi Arabia moves to ban “secret divorce”

Saudi Ara­bia, yes­ter­day, took a step for­ward so­cially, with a re­form in favour of women’s rights, under the stew­ard­ship of Mo­hammed bin Salman, which will elim­i­nate the pos­si­bil­ity that a woman could be di­vorced by her hus­band with­out know­ing. Pre­vi­ously, this could leave women with­out rights to pen­sions, or other ben­e­fits ob­tained through mar­raige only, with­out their being aware.

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