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Uzbek imam sacked after urging president to allow hijabs, beards
TASHKENT (Reuters) - An Uzbek imam has been sacked after urging President
Shavkat Mirziyoyev to lift a ban on personal religious symbols such as women
's hijabs and beards for men, in a case showing the limits of newly-
proclaimed tolerance in the mainly Muslim country.
Mirziyoyev, who came to power in 2016, has relaxed restrictions on religious
freedoms as part of his campaign of liberal economic and political reforms
in the former Soviet republic of 32 million.
But his government stopped short of lifting a decades-long ban on religious
clothes and attributes, and specifically barred female students from wearing
headscarves known as hijabs in schools by a decree issued last month.
The move prompted criticism on social networks led by Fazliddin Parpiyev,
then imam of the Omina mosque in Tashkent. He published a video address to
Mirziyoyev on Facebook last week, an unusual move for an Uzbek cleric.
Parpiyev, 32, said in the video that despite the recent reforms Muslims were
still being oppressed over the hijab and beard issue and asked Mirziyoyev
for help "in maintaining freedom of conscience".
On Sunday, Parpiyev wrote on his Facebook page he had been dismissed from
his post by the Muslim Board of Uzbekistan, which is close to the government
, and that some fellow clerics have urged him to disavow his previous
statement.
"I do not regret what I have said in my video address," he wrote. &#
34;However, my smartphone has been taken away from me by my father which
gives me reasons to believe that he could be under pressure as well."
The Muslim Board could not be reached for comment on Monday.
(Reporting by Mukhammadsharif Mamatkulov; Writing by Olzhas Auyezov; editing
by David Stamp)
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