{"id":2911,"date":"2023-11-27T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/saudi-women-to-be-notified-of-divorce-via-text-called-a-technical-measure-by-activists\/"},"modified":"2023-11-27T08:32:14","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T08:32:14","slug":"saudi-women-to-be-notified-of-divorce-via-text-called-a-technical-measure-by-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/saudi-women-to-be-notified-of-divorce-via-text-called-a-technical-measure-by-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi women to be notified of divorce via text, called a &#8216;technical measure&#8217; by activists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n        On Sunday, the Saudi government announced they would start notifying women if their husbands filed for divorce via text message, which activists call &#8220;technological progress&#8221; rather than real progress.\n    <\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad-halfpage u-show-for-small-only\">\n<div class=\"c-ad__placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-180x22-grey-6.svg\" width=\"180\" height=\"22\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><span>ADVERTISEMENT<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Saudi women will now be notified of divorce via text message under a new law that is meant to \u201cprotect\u201d women, said a statement by the Saudi Ministry of Justice.<\/p>\n<p>The new law, which came into effect on Sunday, is supposed to stop husbands ending marriages without telling their wives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Saudi courts have started to send such (divorce) notifications &#8230; a step aimed at protecting the rights of female clients,&#8221; the Saudi Ministry of Justice said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.moj.gov.sa\/en\/MediaCenter\/Pages\/NewsDetails.aspx?itemId=281\">statement<\/a> on their website.<\/p>\n<p>Women will be able to check their marital status on the ministry\u2019s website and look at details of any probate certificates.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman &#8220;lifted&#8221; the ban on women driving last year.<\/p>\n<h2>&#8216;A technical measure rather than a law&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>But Rothna Begum, a senior&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2019\/01\/08\/saudi-women-to-be-notified-of-divorce-via-text-called-a-technical-measure-by-activists\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, the Saudi government announced they would start notifying women if their husbands filed for divorce via text message, which activists call &#8220;technological progress&#8221; rather than real progress. ADVERTISEMENT Saudi women will now be notified of divorce via text message under a new law that is meant to \u201cprotect\u201d women, said a statement by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2911","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ksanewsroom.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}