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Authorities in Turkmenistan's Balkan Province have imposed an unofficial nighttime curfew, which bars locals from leaving home after 9 p.m. Officials say the measure is aimed at "maintaining peace and quiet."
Female students in western Turkmenistan are being forced to take virginity tests to check their “morality” and prevent teen pregnancies. Those who “fail” the controversial examination are being reported to security services.
Officials in western Turkmenistan have ordered locals to play ex-President Gurbanguly Berdymukhammedov's songs at their wedding receptions and to banish foreign music from the playlists.
Tajikistan raised the minimum age for marriage from 17 to 18 more than a decade ago to try to reduce the number of early marriages. But underage marriages are actually on the rise in the Central Asian country despite government efforts to curtail them.