You've Got Veil: Millions Of Text Messages Remind Tajiks To Obey New Dress Code

RFEFL, You've Got Veil: Millions Of Text Messages Remind Tajiks To Obey New Dress Code "Private mobile-phone companies in Tajikistan have begun sending out text messages to millions of citizens, reminding them to obey a new law that makes Tajik national clothing obligatory at “traditional” gatherings such as weddings and commemorative ceremonies for the dead."

Tajikistan's First Online Sex Shop Tests Tastes, Traditions

rferl.org, Tajikistan's First Online Sex Shop Tests Tastes, Traditions, 15 Oct 2015 "Reactions have been mixed on social media and in interviews on Dushanbe's streets, with some expressing fear that it might erode moral values and others stressing that freedom of choice was important."

Tajikistan: BBC reporter detained for membership of 'extreme Islamic group'

Richard Orange, Telegraph, Tajikistan: BBC reporter detained for membership of 'extreme Islamic group', 16 Jun 2011 ""BBC radio correspondent Urunbay Usmonov, 50, was detained for membership in the illegal movement Hizb ut-Tahrir," Makhmadullo Asadulloyev, a spokesman for the interior ministry in the former Soviet republic, confirmed on Wednesday.

"Mr Usmonov "was engaged in extremist propaganda and campaigning for the movement on the internet," he added."

Tajikistan block sites

Reuters, Sites critical of government blocked in Tajikistan, 11 Oct 2010

"Internet providers in Tajikistan acting on orders from authorities barred access on Monday to websites known for carrying criticism of the Central Asian nation' government, providers and sites said."

Tajikistan, jihad and the net

Khayrullo Fayz, BBC Uzbek Service, Tajikistan youth turn to radical Islam, 27 Sep 2010 "Furqon.com is the website of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), an al-Qaeda-affiliated Central Asian group that now fights alongside the Taliban from a base in northern Pakistan.

"Written in local and Arabic languages, it offers a mix of Islamic texts, atrocity videos and exhortations to join the jihad."

Note: furqon.com is currently down

Tajikistan

Reuters India, Tajik president says "enemies" waging Internet war, 15 Apr 09 "Tajikistan's long-serving president accused the "enemies" of his nation on Wednesday of using the Internet to undermine his rule and urged his people to mobilise against the threat.

"President Imomali Rakhmon did not name any countries, but his remarks came at a time of growing tension between Tajikistan, a strategic nation courted by the West, and Russia, its former Soviet overlord."