Terror of the Russian Special Services and the Meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly

On July 1, Russian television showed another propaganda material under the guise of the news. “Several major special operations of the FSB at once: in different regions: in Moscow and in the Astrakhan region, terrorist attacks were prevented: they were prepared by two members of the international terrorist organization ISIS, banned in Russia. One of them - in the Astrakhan region - put up armed resistance. He was eliminated. The second was detained in the capital. And in Tatarstan, they took the leader of the regional link of the terrorist organization Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which is also banned in our country. He reportedly distributed extremist materials and recruited fighters. And another operation: in Belgorod, seven followers of Ukrainian radicals were detained, who, according to the FSB, are involved in the propaganda of neo-Nazism and massacres. They prepared attacks on law enforcement officers and citizens. The gang reportedly included minors. Extremist materials and weapons were seized,” said a voice-over in the report.

On the same day, July 1, a meeting of the Council of the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly was held. State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who is on a working visit to Dushanbe, met with President of Tajikistan Emomali Rahmon. They discussed the creation of a single list of terrorist organizations. According to Russian media reports, the role of the Collective Security Treaty Organization and the CSTO Parliamentary Assembly in addressing security issues of the participating countries was also touched upon.

It is obvious that carrying out the so-called “special operations” was timed to coincide with the aforementioned meeting in Dushanbe. It has long become the norm that the special services of Russia, for the sake of mastering the cosmic sums of the budget allocated for their maintenance, for the sake of increasing their “significance” and powers, are playing a spectacle of “fighting extremism and terrorism”, throwing tens and hundreds of Muslims into the millstones of this lawlessness, fabricating criminal cases against them and condemning them to decades of prisons, and sometimes they are simply killed.

With regards to the so-called “elimination of the militant” who allegedly put up armed resistance we remember how an unarmed member of Hizb ut Tahrir Ayub Rakhimov was killed on May 11 this year in Crimea, whose body is still not handed over for burial. Therefore, knowing the falsity of the FSB officers and their complete impunity in the Russian Federation, there is every reason to doubt that an armed militant who put up armed resistance was eliminated in the Astrakhan region.

In addition, there are many known cases when Muslims killed under torture in the torture basements of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, after the murder, were presented by the special services as the armed militants liquidated during the attack on them.

As for the detention of a member of Hizb ut Tahrir, he was detained two weeks earlier, but the press service of the FSB withheld this information and made it public only before the meeting of the CSTO PA.

In addition, the special services and the authorities of the Russian Federation are well aware that Hizb ut Tahrir has nothing to do with any violent actions and has never engaged in training or recruiting militants, as the Russian media falsely present to the gullible Russian citizen, but they deliberately in the news plot put Hizb ut Tahrir, ISIS fighters and dubious “Ukrainian radicals” on a par in order to once again denigrate the Hizb and justify repression against this organization.

Allah (swt) in the Quran says:

(إِنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا يُنفِقُونَ أَمْوَالَهُمْ لِيَصُدُّوا عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيْهِمْ حَسْرَةً ثُمَّ يُغْلَبُونَ وَالَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا إِلَى جَهَنَّمَ يُحْشَرُونَ)

“Surely the disbelievers spend their wealth to hinder others from the Path of Allah. They will continue to spend to the point of regret. Then they will be defeated and the disbelievers will be driven into Hell. [8:36].

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Shaikhetdin Abdullah