The author of the article expounds her views on the problem of freedom referring to conscience and religious persuasion. She underscores the contribution of Tajik-Persian legal culture into the rise of the idea concerned with the freedom of conscience and persuasion and its subsequent realization in life. The germs of the idea in question are traced back to Zoroastrian legal system; “The Declaration on Freedom of Conscience” composed by tsar Kir the Great, the founder of Akhemenids’ dynasty, is of intransient significance as the first document in the history of mankind which registered man’s freedom for conscience and persuasion. In so far as this idea is concerned, one should mention that in middle ages it was pointed that in the frames of the Islamic legal system the Moslemic Society evinced tolerance to other religions. The author analyzes the issue also in the temporal aspects of the Soviet epoch and the period of state independence under the angle of security of constitutional right for conscience and persuasion in Tajikistan
Tajikistan Republic, Constitution, personal rights and freedoms, freedom of conscience and persuasion, tolerance, Declaration “Freedom of Conscience” by Kir the Great
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