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Saudi husband tells his bride he wants a divorce during their wedding after seeing her face for the first time when the photographer asked them to pose for pictures 

• The wedding was taking place in the Western Saudi town of Medinah
• Neither bride nor groom had met face to face before the ceremony
• So when she lifted her veil to smile for photo, groom recoiled in disgust
• He said: 'You are not the girl I had imagined. I am sorry, but I divorce you'
• Comes as another Saudi man divorces wife after she didn't reply to his WhatsApp message 

By Matthew Blake for MailOnline

Published: 12:32 GMT, 17 November 2014 | Updated: 12:47 GMT, 17 November 2014 

A Saudi groom has divorced his bride on their wedding night after seeing her face for the first time when the photographer asked them to pose for pictures. The couple, from the Western Saudi town of Medinah, had agreed to marry each other despite having not met face to face - a popular custom in certain Middle Eastern countries. But when the bride removed her veil and smiled for the camera, her new husband leapt to his feet in disgust. 

Take it back! When the bride removed her veil and smiled for the camera, her new husband leapt to his feet in disgust and declared, 'You are not the one I had imagined. I am sorry, but I divorce you' (stock image).'You are not the girl I want to marry,' he declared. 'You are not the one I had imagined. I am sorry, but I divorce you.'

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The Saudi woman who wants a divorce - because her husband tried to sneak one look at her face after 30 years of marriage

Last updated at 12:46 19 May 2008

After 30 years of marriage, cynics might say most husbands and wives would have seen quite enough of each other, thank you very much.But not in the case of one Saudi Arabian man who managed to live with his wife for three decades without setting eyes on her face.Not that he had much choice about it. His 50-year-old wife followed the tradition of her native village near the south-western city of Khamis Mushayt and kept her features veiled at all times.Until one night last month, that is, when the husband was finally overcome by curiosity and tried to lift his wife's veil as she slept to take a look at her face.

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Tradition: In the village in South West Saudia            Arabia,women keep their features veiled at all times (file picture) 

It was an error he is unlikely to be given a chance to repeat for his outraged wife woke up during his sneak peek and is now demanding a divorce.'After all these years, he tries to commit such a big mistake,' she told Saudi newspaper Al-Riyadh after leaving the house in disbelief. She said her husband apologised and promised never to do it again, but she insisted she wanted a divorce. It is not the first example of Saudi husbands with wives forever shrouded in mystery.

There was the case of Ali al-Qahtani whose wife had been wearing a face veil for the entire ten years of their marriage. When he tried to take it off she threatened to leave and only decided to stay after he swore never to try again. And neither the husband or children of Om Rabea al-Gahdaray, 70, have ever seen her face. It was a family tradition, also followed by her mother and sisters, which her husband accepted and never tried to change, she said. When asked how she could have children without her husband ever seeing her face, she replied: "Marriage is about love, not faces."

Many Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran require women to cover their faces in public but in the privacy of their homes there is no such compulsion.But always remaining veiled - even in front of your husband - is not an Islamic practice, but a very old tradition practised by a tiny minority of women in remote areas of Gulf countries.

Most examples of it are in Saudi, one of the most conservative of countries.

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DEATH OF A PRINCESS

Ref : Wikipedia

Princess Misha'al bint Fahd (1958 – 15 July 1977) ) was a member of House of Saud, who was executed by gunshot  for alleged adultery in 1977, at the age of 19. She was a granddaughter of Prince Muhammad bin Abdulaziz, who was an older brother of King Khalid.

Her family sent Misha'al bint Fahd, at her own request, to Lebanon to attend school. While there, she fell in love with a man, Khaled al-Sha'er Mulhallal, the nephew of Ali Hassan al-Shaer the Saudi ambassador in Lebanon and they began an affair. When, upon their return to Saudi Arabia, it emerged that they had conspired to meet alone on several occasions, a charge of adultery was brought against them. After attempting to fake her own drowning and being caught trying to escape from Saudi Arabia with Khaled, disguised as a man but being recognized by the passport examiner at Jeddah airport, she was returned to her family.Under Sharia law, a person can only be convicted of adultery by the testimony of four adult male witnesses to the actual sexual penetration, or by their own admission of guilt, stating three times in court "I have committed adultery." There were no witnesses. Her family urged her not to confess, but instead to merely promise never to see her lover again. On her return to the courtroom, she allegedly repeated her confession: "I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery. I have committed adultery." This account has been challenged by the docudrama Death of a Princess, according to which, the princess and her lover were never actually tried in court.

On 15 July 1977, both were publicly executed in Jeddah by the side of the Queen's Building in the park. Despite her royal status, she was blindfolded, made to kneel, and executed on the explicit instructions of her grandfather, a senior member of the royal family, for the alleged dishonour she brought on her clan and defying a royal order calling for her to marry a man selected by the family. Khaled, after being forced to watch her execution, was beheaded with a sword by, it is believed, one of the princess's male relatives. It took five blows to sever his head, which was not the work of a professional executioner. Both executions were conducted near the palace in Jeddah, not in the public execution square in Jeddah.

Following the execution, segregation of women became more severe and the religious police also began patrolling bazaars, shopping malls, and any other place where men and women might happen to meet.When Prince Muhammad was later asked if the two deaths were necessary, he said, "It was enough for me that they were in the same room together"

A British Film Producer made a movie of this incident named "Death Of A Princess". The movie was aired in ITV and PBS and caused a lot of furore By Saudi Officials demanding that the film must not be released. The power of Arabian money and business was shown by threatening British and Americans that Arabia will stop all association with these countries. Though they were able to stall the release of the movie for sometime, it was ultimately released in 80s.

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