Press Release
Hizb ut-Tahrir Pakistan: Letter to the Ambassador of the Moroccan Embassy

To the ambassador of the Moroccan Embassy,

We are sending this letter so that if any sanity is left in this regime, it would consider its crimes and take steps to address them. Member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Thami Najim, 37 years old, married, father of four sons, and a software developer, was abducted from his home on 03/02/2012. Later he was charged with conspiring against the Moroccan monarchy through violent means with foreign funding. The articles cited were 201 and 206 of the Criminal Law, where Article 201 addresses conspiracy against the monarchy through violent means and Article 206 addresses foreign funding used to weaken the people's loyalty to the system. A court ruling in his case on 05/06/2012 found him innocent of charges related to Article 201, whilst it found him guilty according to Article 206 i.e. receiving foreign funding used to weaken the people's loyalty to the system, thus sentencing him to ten months of imprisonment. It is important to note that after six months of his arrest the Moroccan Minister for Justice and Freedom, Mustapha Ramed, acknowledged his status as a political prisoner (Al-Masae Newspaper: 23/8/2012). After the appeal court hearing, seven months from the arrest date, 11/09/2012, the sentence was increased to eighteen months imprisonment, even though Thami Najim presented all legal documentation regarding all money transfers mentioned in his case. Thus proving without any doubt, that the money received are payments from legal Danish companies, transferred to him as payments for software development and programming.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a well-known political party that denounces all violent actions as part of its method and your regime is also aware of that, and is devoted to political means as its only way to change the current mindset of the Muslim populations. Thus the trial and ruling in Thami Najim case is politically motivated without a shred of doubt.

We demand his immediate release and warn you that your continued subjugation of peaceful political activism will not increase the life of your brutal regime. If your government does not turn away from its current course soon, this regime will be punished by the upcoming Khilafah "Caliphate". So take our advice and safe yourself from the wrath of the Ummah in this world and of Allah Subhanahu Watalla in the Hereafter.

The Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan