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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan President Emomali Rahmon has urged people in the predominantly Muslim country not to wear beards or hijabs, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The following article by Timur Toktonaliev, originally published by The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR), explores the ways politicians are using religious discourse to appeal to the electorate in Kyrgyzstan, as the country is preparing for the presidential election scheduled for October 15, 2017: Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — The foreign-based independent website Chronicles of Turkmenistan reports that officers from the 22nd motor rifle division of the Turkmen armed forces have been accused of disseminating non-traditional Islam and sentenced to lengthy prison terms. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — Authorities in Tajikistan have barred citizens under the age of 40 from performing this year's annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, RFE/RL's Tajik Service reported. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — At his meeting with Kazakhstan’s Spiritual Board of the Muslims on April 19, Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke about measures to regulate religious relations on the part of the state, the president’s press service reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Chinese authorities have imposed 15 new restrictions, including banning burqas and veils, as well as "abnormal" beards, in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in the northwest China, predominantly inhabited by Muslim population, as part of the fight against religious extremism, Sputnik news agency reported citing media reports. Continue reading
