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A woman is stopped for buying groceries alone. The shopkeeper who served her is slapped and hauled in for questioning. A teacher is turned away from her own classroom for wearing the wrong cloak.

Every week, Murod opens WhatsApp, takes a selfie showing his clean-shaven face, and sends it to the police. The 38-year-old market trader, who is Muslim and from the southern Tajik city of Bokhtar, ...