News Digest
TAJIK PARTY CONDEMNS SCHOOL HIJAB BAN, AGE LIMITS FOR MOSQUE ATTENDANCE
By empty (10/28/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Tajikistan\'s Islamic Renaissance Party (IRP) condemned on 28 October a recent decision by the country\'s Education Ministry forbidding female students from attending educational institutions while wearing a head scarf and a government ban at mosques for children under the age of 16. The authorities have justified the decisions as necessary steps to safeguard education in a secular society. But the IRP blasted the moves as an infringement on religious freedom and an attempt to foist the views of a single group on all of Tajik society.BASAYEV IS SOMEWHERE IN NORTH CAUCASUS - ALKHANOV
By empty (10/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Shamil Basayev, a leader of Chechen militants, is hiding somewhere in the North Caucasus, Chechen President Alu Alkhanov told a Thursday press conference at Interfax\'s main office. \"The whereabouts of Basayev are an interesting question which should be addressed to law enforcement agencies. According to me, Basayev is somewhere in the North Caucasus,\" he said.COUNCIL OF EUROPE DOES NOT APPLY DOUBLE STANDARDS IN CHECHNYA - ALKHANOV
By empty (10/27/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Chechen President Alu Alkhanov thinks that the Council of Europe\'s general attitude to Chechnya is positive. \"I have an impression that they do not apply double standards. I also have an impression that the Council of Europe truly wants to help in solving our problems,\" he told a Thursday press conference at the Interfax main office.UZBEK OPPOSITION LEADER \'DRUGGED\'
By empty (10/26/2005 issue of the CACI Analyst)
Uzbek opposition group Sunshine Uzbekistan fears its leader, Sanjar Umarov, has been drugged in custody. Mr Umarov\'s lawyer said he visited his client on Tuesday and found him naked in his cell and in a incoherent state. Mr Umarov was arrested on Saturday, charged with stealing an undisclosed sum of money.Visit also
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Silk Road Paper Svante E. Cornell, ed., Türkiye's Return to Central Asia and the Caucasus, July 2024.
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