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Tajik President Emomali Rahmon signed a law according to which sorcery and witchcraft in the Central Asian the country is now considered criminally punishable. Person recognized guilty of these crimes, faces up to seven years stay in a correctional facility. Unusual law chapter states signed at a recent meeting government.
Earlier, both houses of the Tajik parliament were brought to the criminal code of amendment equating witchcraft with administrative offenses. Even if such an activity was not harmful to other people, a witch or a sorcerer when proving a fact large fines awaited sorcerers. Now the black books in Tajikistan has become a criminal offense for the commission of which a man faces a prison.
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Nevertheless, you should not think that any “witchcraft police”, like the Inquisition of the Middle Ages, catching anyone who dares to read a plot or fortune-telling with girlfriends on a boring autumn evening. In fact, everything is much more prosaic. According to representatives of the local ministry of internal affairs, in Tajikistan there are several thousand so called traditional healers that people turn to when various diseases.
Officials are confident that alternative medicine compared to traditional unsafe, in addition, it often represents pure quackery, so the activities of such healers are worth nip. In addition, two years ago there was much more serious case – an Islamic priest accidentally killed a young man, intending to expel the demon from the youth.
It is worth noting that at the request of the municipal authorities in Since mid-2006, raids have been held in Tajikistan suppression of the activities of folk healers, fortune tellers, sorcerers and psychics.
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The persecution of sorcerers and sorcerers is known since ancient times, for example, the Hammurabi Code established for such activities the death penalty, and in the Middle Ages witches were completely burned at the stake, and often without trial. Does Tajikistan sink into the gloomy Middle Ages, arranging a new one in the history of mankind witch hunt? ..
