Libyan Islamists rally to demand sharia-based law


TRIPOLI: Hundreds of Libyan Islamists rallied on Friday to demand that Muslim sharia law inspire legislation in what organisers called a response to the emergence of secular political parties after the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's dictatorship last year.

Assembled by Islamist political and religious groups, mostly young and bearded men holding up copies of the Koran demonstrated in squares in the capital Tripoli, the eastern city of Benghazi and in Sabha in the southern desert.

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