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 ...