Practitioners of the occult are keeping a low profile to avoid arrest and public shaming because of a government-led campaign against them. Tajik police have stepped up raids against what they call ...

In 2024, residents of Khanibodom, a small town in Tajikistan’s northern Sughd province, lived under constant fear of being murdered in their own houses. A total of seven incidents took place ...

Tajik police have stepped up raids against what they call "parasites engaged in some of the most detestable activities imaginable -- divination and witchcraft". Other countries in Central Asia are ...

Tajik police have stepped up raids against what they call “parasites engaged in some of the most detestable activities imaginable — divination and witchcraft”. Other countries in Central ...

claiming it was “offensive to the honor” of Tajik women and mothers. The police released them after a “preventive” conversation but posted photographs from the young women’s accounts on the police ...

Tamkin Mehrabuddin and her sister were preparing lunch in their home in Tajikistan when police officers knocked on their door. The two Afghan women were ordered to accompany them to a police ...