Woman divorced for saying hi to ex

A Saudi man divorced his wife after she said ‘hello’ to her ex-boyfriend when she met him by coincidence while strolling with her husband at a park in the Gulf kingdom.

The woman, her husband and his sister just entered the park in capital Riyadh for a weekend picnic when she saw her former boyfriend.

“She made an excuse to go the toilet and went to her former boyfriend to say hi and ask him how he was,” ‘Sada’ newspaper said.

“Her sister-in-law saw her and told the husband, who rushed to her, beat her up and divorced her.”

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