Tunisia has abolished a decades-old ban on Muslim women marrying non-Muslims, the presidency said Thursday.
"Congratulations to the women of Tunisia for the enshrinement of the correct to the liberty to guide one's spouse," presidency spokeswoman Saida Garrach wrote on Facebook.
The proclamation comes a calendar month afterwards President Beji Caid Essebsi called for the regime to fleck the ban dating dorsum to 1973.
Until directly a non-Muslim human being who wished to wed a Tunisian adult woman had to convert to Islam too submit a certificate of his conversion equally proof.
Human rights groups inwards the North African province had campaigned for the ban's abolition, proverb it undermined the key human correct to guide a spouse.
Tunisia is viewed equally beingness ahead of nearly Arab countries on women's rights, simply in that place is yet discrimination especially inwards matters of inheritance.
AFP