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Officers from the Firdavsi District Department of Internal Affairs No. 1 detained Dushanbe resident Rukhshona Sattorova for fortune telling and witchcraft, according to the Dushanbe City Department of Internal Affairs.
An administrative report was filed against the detainee under Article 482 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Republic of Tajikistan. The court fined her 80 times the minimum monthly wage, or approximately 6,000 somoni.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that the capital's police have stepped up efforts to identify and prevent such cases in order to completely eradicate this negative phenomenon. Law enforcement agencies called on citizens to assist the police in identifying individuals engaged in fortune-telling and witchcraft.
