The parents of 7-year-old Maryam are sending her to a school run by the Iranian Embassy in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe. She attends the Iranian school because, like many other Tajik girls who wear Islamic head scarves, Maryam wasn't allowed to enter her Tajik school when it opened last week. "I went to school on September 1, but [the teachers] didn't let me in," she says. "They told me to remove my head scarf. I didn't go to school anymore." Tajikistan's Education Ministry outlawed the hijab in schools and universities last year and also demands that its students wear special...
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Tajik Women, Young People Appear To Be Embracing Islam
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