03.05.2012                      11.Ijar. 5772                    Tag 26 des Omer; Ta'anit BH"B

Libyen:

Libya drops ban on religion-based parties

Law that raised ire of Islamist parties nixed in the run up to the country's first free election, in June.

Libya has dropped a ban against parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, an official said, after the law irked Islamist parties in the run up to the first free election in June.
Members of the ruling National Transitional Council's judicial committee on Wednesday read out an amended version of a law governing the formation of political parties, making no mention of the ban, which was announced last week….