Ashgabat police bans young men and women from sitting together on park benches

In Ashgabat, police forbid young women and men from sitting together on park benches unless they are related. About it informs Radio Liberty.

The morality police operates, in particular, in the Ylham park in Ashgabat. If a man and a woman are sitting on a park in the park, a police officer comes up to them and asks the man who the girl is. As evidence, they require the presentation of passports and birth certificates.

If young people are not related to each other, they are taken to the police station for investigation.

If young people say that they are classmates, “the police station calls the educational institution to find out the identity and notify the parents of the students.” The university administration is informed. In this case, students can be expelled from the university.

If people of the same sex are sitting on a bench in the park, the security forces do not pay attention to them, the radio notes.

Earlier it became known that the police are making remarks to residents of Ashgabat, who walk the streets in shorts. The police explain this by the fact that “it is not supposed to be on the street in this form.”