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Taking on ‘alien clothing’. The context and consequences of Tajikistan’s hijab ban — Meduza
Anisa was on her way to visit relatives in the suburbs of Dushanbe when two police officers accosted her over her light-colored hijab, an Islamic headscarf. “They kept asking me why I wear [the hijab] and do I not know that it’s not a Tajik tradition,” said Anisa (who asked not to use her full…
