{"id":1036,"date":"2017-10-20T20:47:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/?p=1036"},"modified":"2017-10-20T20:47:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T20:47:46","slug":"tajikistan-authorities-draw-up-list-of-gay-and-lesbian-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/southandcentralasiablog\/2017\/10\/20\/tajikistan-authorities-draw-up-list-of-gay-and-lesbian-citizens\/","title":{"rendered":"Tajikistan authorities draw up list of gay and lesbian citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"hide-on-mobile\">\n<header class=\"content__head tonal__head tonal__head--tone-news\n\n    \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"tonal__standfirst u-cf\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column\">\n<div class=\"content__standfirst\">\n<p>Suggestion that those on official register would be required to undergo testing to avoid \u2018spread of sexually-transmitted diseases\u2019<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__main tonal__main tonal__main--tone-news\">\n<div class=\"gs-container\">\n<div class=\"content__main-column content__main-column--article js-content-main-column \">\n<div class=\"js-score\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"js-sport-tabs football-tabs content__mobile-full-width\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"img-1\" class=\"media-primary media-content()  \">\n<div class=\"u-responsive-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"maxed responsive-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6e1ec0c27fed4ab59f6cd98505aba13494db5d1c\/0_11_5344_3208\/master\/5344.jpg?w=300&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=73a9c6b1e86418e2a6a33c668cb5ca6b\" alt=\"Move reported amid growing concerns over safety of LGBT communities across Muslim-majority regions of former Soviet Union.\" \/><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption caption--main caption--img\">Move reported amid growing concerns over safety of LGBT communities across Muslim-majority regions of former Soviet Union. Photograph: Inti Ocon\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"content__meta-container js-content-meta js-football-meta u-cf\n\n    \"><\/p>\n<div class=\"meta__extras \">\n<div class=\"meta__social\">\n<ul class=\"social social--top js-social--top u-unstyled u-cf\">\n<li class=\"social__item social__item--facebook \"><\/li>\n<li class=\"social__item social__item--twitter \"><\/li>\n<li class=\"social__item social__item--email \"><\/li>\n<li class=\"js-social__secondary social__item social__item--more js-social__item--more\"><button class=\"meta-button social-tray__button\"><span class=\"u-h\">View more sharing options<\/span><\/button><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"meta__numbers\">\n<div class=\"meta__number js-sharecount\" title=\"Facebook: 3059\">\n<h3 class=\"sharecount__heading\"><span class=\"sharecount__text u-h\">Shares<\/span><\/h3>\n<div class=\"sharecount__value sharecount__value--short\">3059<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"u-h meta__number\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">AFP in Dushanbe<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__dateline\">Tuesday 17 October 2017<span class=\"content__dateline-time\">15.22\u00a0EDT<\/span>Last modified on Tuesday 17 October 2017<span class=\"content__dateline-time\">18.04\u00a0EDT<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content__article-body from-content-api js-article__body\">\n<p>Authorities in <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tajikistan\">Tajikistan<\/a> have drawn up a register of 367 allegedly gay citizens, suggesting they would be required to undergo testing to avoid \u201cthe spread of sexually-transmitted diseases\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Details of the move was unveiled in Zakonnost, a newspaper published by Tajikistan\u2019s state prosecutor, which said the official list of \u201cgay and lesbian\u201d citizens was compiled following research into the LGBT community.<\/p>\n<p>Rights activists in this authoritarian central Asian nation have in the past raised fears over discrimination faced by LGBT individuals in this conservative country that is mainly Muslim but has secular authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The paper said that working groups set up last year had identified 319 gay men and 48 lesbians but no transgender people in the former Soviet republic of 8.5 million.<\/p>\n<p>It said the list was drawn up following two state \u201coperations\u201d last year entitled \u201cMorality\u201d and \u201cPurge\u201d, without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>Zakonnost did not specify what kind of checks would be involved, but said the people had been \u201cput on a register due to their vulnerability in society and for their safety and to prevent the transmission of sexually transmitted diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on condition of anonymity, a police source told AFP that \u201cstrict medical records\u201d were needed for members of the gay community because \u201csuch people have a high risk of contracting sexually-transmitted infections through infectious diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item \">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__image-container u-responsive-ratio\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/41e600e0cb78de5043918ea860559fb782bc435e\/0_39_3500_2100\/master\/3500.jpg?w=460&amp;q=55&amp;auto=format&amp;usm=12&amp;fit=max&amp;s=c7472a15648780a70a536aa9efff79ec\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<h1 class=\"rich-link__title\"><a class=\"rich-link__link\">Victim of Chechnya\u2019s &#8216;gay purge&#8217; calls on Russia to investigate<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__arrow\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rich-link__read-more-text\">Read more<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Unlike in neighbouring Uzbekistan, where \u201csodomy\u201d is illegal, homosexuality is not banned in <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/tajikistan\">Tajikistan<\/a> although it is frowned upon in this conservative society.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, Tajikistan\u2019s most senior Muslim cleric blasted homosexual relationships as \u201ccalamitous\u201d during a sermon in the main mosque in the capital, Dushanbe.<\/p>\n<p>There are growing concerns over the safety of LGBT communities across Muslim-majority regions of the former Soviet Union. In March, Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta said authorities in the Russian region of Chechnya were imprisoning and torturing gay men.<\/p>\n<p>One Chechen resident publicly testified in Moscow this week about being detained and tortured because he is gay. And last month, Amnesty International raised alarm over the <a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2017\/sep\/28\/azerbaijan-police-crackdown-lgbt-community\">apparent detentions of LGBT people in the Caucasus country of Azerbaijan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suggestion that those on official register would be required to undergo testing to avoid \u2018spread of sexually-transmitted diseases\u2019 Move reported amid growing concerns over safety of LGBT communities across Muslim-majority regions of former Soviet Union. 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