In Tajikistan, gays and lesbians began to put on record. VIDEO

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Tajikistan has begun to register gays and lesbians. As reported by "Currently,“, with reference to the publication of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Tajikistan, there are already 319 homosexual men and 48 lesbians on the list.

“Their belonging to sexual minorities has been proven, and all of them have been placed on operational records,” the newspaper reports.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan refused to comment on the lists of sexual minorities. But one of those who was included in the register of sexual minorities told Radio Liberty that the police justify the registration by the fact that LGBT people, as well as those who engage in prostitution, are at high risk of contracting HIV and “are part of a vulnerable group layers of the population due to the high level of partner change.”

Tajikistan in 1998 canceled the law on criminal punishment for homosexuality in force in the USSR. But homosexuals and other sexual minorities still face well-established social taboos in the country. This is primarily due to the fact that homosexual relations are prohibited by Islam. Most residents of Tajikistan practice this particular religion.

Gay, lesbian and transgender people in Tajikistan are trying to hide their sexual orientation. Many fear that if they are revealed they will lose their jobs and will be excluded from universities. It is not uncommon for gays and lesbians to commit suicide due to the fact that their relatives turned away from them.

“When I lived in Tajikistan, many people threatened me,” Milena Sandrova, a transgender woman from Tajikistan who received asylum and now lives in Sweden, told Present Time. “They claimed that Islam forbids all this. I constantly had to hide. I couldn’t get a job because they hounded me from everywhere: they checked my documents and when they saw that my passport didn’t match what they saw, they drove me away in shame.”

Many representatives of sexual minorities have complained of attacks, but the police refuse to investigate these cases. “Now we are better understood, but there are also those who do not allow passage or beat us, film us, mock us,” admits one of them, Khuram.

“I left my parents' house after my parents found out that I was gay. My father constantly insisted that I had disgraced him,” says Shukhrat, a native of Dushanbe. “Once several drunks beat me severely because, in their words, I “danced like a girl.” I contacted the police. But the police officer on duty, having learned that I was gay, did not even listen to me. The next day I was kicked out of work.”

In May 2015, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria stated that “the latest estimated number of men who have sex with men in Tajikistan is 30.”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tajikistan, after the publication of the report, stated that the foundation’s statement “does not correspond to reality.”

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