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22 December 2020
Mushfig Bayram, Forum 18, and John Kinahan, Forum 18
Tajikistan restricts freedom of religion and belief, along with interlinked freedoms of expression, association and assembly. Forum 18 s survey analyses violations including: ban on and punishments for all exercise of freedom of religion or belief without state permission; severe limitations on numbers of mosques; jailing of Muslim, Jehovah s Witness and Protestant prisoners of conscience on alleged extremism charges; impunity for torture; jailing of conscientious objectors; and state censorship of religious materials.
Tajikistan has a record of violating freedom of religion or belief and related human rights such as the freedoms of expression and association. Serious violations documented by Forum 18 include but are not limited to:
23 December 2020
Felix Corley, Forum 18
The Samarkand police Struggle with Extremism and Terrorism Department has opened a case against Shia Muslim Rashid Ibrahimov, twice questioning him without a written summons. Officers sent material from his phone, including texts of sermons, to the Religious Affairs Committee for expert analysis . Depending on that, they may bring administrative or criminal charges against him, a source told Forum 18. Officials are hostile to Shia Islam. Human rights defender Doctor Alimardon Sultonov is challenging his 14-month restricted freedom sentence.
On 18 December, police from the Struggle with Extremism and Terrorism Department in the central city of Samarkand opened a case against Shia Muslim Rashid Ibrahimov, the regional police Struggle with Extremism and Terrorism Department head Ulugbek Gainazarov confirmed to Forum 18. He refused to discuss details of the case. The case was opened the same day that Traffic Police stopped Ibrahimov as
Date: November 30, 2020
The FIR was lodged at Mansoorpur police station in Muzaffarnagar district on November 30. Two Muslim men Suleman and Nadeem were booked for allegedly trying to force a married Hindu woman to convert. They were booked under the new law as well as criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy. Both were arrested on December 6.
Case No. 3
Date: December 3, 2020
The FIR was lodged at Chiraiyakot police station in Mau district on December 3. Fourteen people have been booked under the new law. Shabab Khan aka Rahul (38) and 13 of his acquaintances were also booked for kidnapping.
Police said that Khan, who is married, and his associates, allegedly abducted a 27-year-old woman on the eve of her wedding on November 30 with the intent to change her religion. No arrests yet.
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Kanth, Moradabad: Pinky (22) is numb. Her foetus died in her womb, she has not stopped bleeding in days, her Muslim husband is in jail and her marriage is under scrutiny by the Uttar Pradesh Police.
Clinging on to her ultrasound report that she received this afternoon, she says, âMy child is no more. See my womb is empty, my baby is gone. Did my husband and I really deserve this? Why was my child killed?â
Pinkyâs husband Rashid has been held on charges of converting and forcibly marrying her under the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Law, or the ‘love jihad’ law.