Tayikistan said Wednesday that he would publish a new book that updates the country’s “clothing guidelines” for women, adjusting the surveillance of women of the secular state.
The authorities of the nation of Central Muslim majority maintain strict control over society, including problems that affect women and girls.
In recent years, the former Soviet country has defended the “traditional” Tayik attire, which prohibits “alien clothing to national culture” last year, while trying to eliminate what they see as “radical Islamic cultural influences.”
Traditional clothing for women generally consists of long -handed manga tunic dresses that are used on loose pants.
An official at the Tayikistan Ministry of Culture said AFP He had developed new “recommendations on national clothing for girls and women” that would be established in a book published in July.
“Clothing is one of the key elements of the national culture, which has left us from our ancestors and has preserved its elegance and beauty over the centuries,” said Khurshed Nizomi, head of the Ministry’s cultural institutions and The folk craft department.
The book will be free at the beginning, and will establish what women should use “according to age”, as well as in several environments, such as at home, at theater or in ceremonial events, Nizomi said.
Tayikistan has published similar books that describe women’s clothing codes before, but this “is superior to previous publications in terms of printing quality, choice of photographs and texts, and historical sources,” Nizomi said.
The officials in the officially secular country that shares a long border with Afghanistan have also tried to ban Islamic clothing in public life.
President Emomali Rahmon, in power since 1992, has described the use of Islamic Hijab as a “problem for society”, and the authorities asked women to “watch the Tayika way.”
The country without coastline, which shares linguistic and cultural ties with Afghanistan, has banned the wear of long beards to combat “religious extremism.”
Tayikistan has intensified its repression against Islamist extremism since last year, when four Tayikos citizens were accused of carrying out a massacre in a concert hall near Moscow.
Many Tayikos joined the Islamic State in the apogee of the scope of the militant group in 2015.
