DUSHANBE, July 24, Asia-Plus — The Ministry of Culture jointly with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) makes raids on markets and shops across the country to confiscate unlicensed audio and video products, Culture Minister Mirzoshorukh Asrorov remarked at a news conference in Dushanbe on July 23.
According to him, video products with pornographic contents are confiscated by the law enforcement agencies practically every day.
Asked about a list of literature banned for distribution in Tajikistan, that had allegedly been published by the MoC, the minister said that reports on such list are “a kind of provocation.”
We will recall that Ferghana.ru said that Tajik Ministry of Culture (MoC) had allegedly published a list of print agitation products of religious organizations banned for distribution in Tajikistan. Literature of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, has topped the blacklist, according to Ferghana.ru.
The minister refused the report as “absolutely unfounded.” “Such list has never existed and nobody has compiled it,” Asrorov said.
The minister said that 45 Tajik students now study various cultural disciplines at higher educational cultural institutions in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Iran.
