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![The Byzantine ‘Ethics’ Of Uzbek Bathroom Breaks, Handshakes, YouTube Posts
A a new code of conduct for Uzbek university students was released this month.
Loafing around, that time-honored pastime of college students everywhere, is verboten. “Don’t walk around a university campus with no reason,” the rulebook advises.
How all of this contributes to the effort against religious extremism and drug addiction is never quite made clear…[READ MORE]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ly3jw2Rjot1qkgi6go1_500.jpg)
The Byzantine ‘Ethics’ Of Uzbek Bathroom Breaks, Handshakes, YouTube Posts
A a new code of conduct for Uzbek university students was released this month.
Loafing around, that time-honored pastime of college students everywhere, is verboten. “Don’t walk around a university campus with no reason,” the rulebook advises.
How all of this contributes to the effort against religious extremism and drug addiction is never quite made clear…[READ MORE]
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Awell-known Iranian political activist, Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, has managed to send out an unprecedented video message from the Rajayishahr prison in which he dismisses Iran’s repressive measures aimed at silencing dissent and predicts they will fail.
“Freedom is the essence of human being I believe, in fact without freedom no choice has a meaning.” he says in the 15-minute-plus video…[READ MORE AND SEE THE VIDEO]
