Press Release
Arresting Hizb-ut-Tahrir Members in Moscow
(Translated)

On the 6th of November 2012 in Ufa, Sibai and several settlements of Bashkortostan, about 40 raids and the arrests of Muslims were conducted by FSB officers in connection with the criminal case about the activities of the Islamic political party, Hizb-ut Tahrir.

On November 7, 2012, about 55 searches and detentions were conducted in the investigation of Hizb-ut-Tahrir in Moscow and the surrounding region with the facts of planting weapons.

Thus, Russia has once again shown its real face of the tyrant: an unrighteous face of the enemy to Islam. The scale of these repressions against Hizb in Russia is unprecedented. Attention is drawn to the fact that the FSB has resorted to a "disclosure" Hizb in Moscow, where authorities concealed the existence of Islamic groups up to now.

The recent events in Russia related to Hizb activity in spreading Islam and reviving the Sunnah of the venerable and beloved Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, increased the hate of Moscow and its executioners throw the Hizb.

However most importantly, we associate the data with the number of arrests in Moscow and Bashkortostan with the situation in Syria. The threat caused by the Syrian conflict disturbs Russia. On the eve of Putin's meeting in Moscow with Shimon Peres, he said in an interview with the "Kommersant" Newspaper, "There is already a civil war in Syria, and it is necessary to put an end to it. The danger of this civil war is that the Syria can no longer be an "Arab state" in the full sense of the word, because in Syria already exists the power, more extremist than Al-Qaeda, who are trying to take over the situation." Since the meeting between Putin and Perez, about 100 searches have been conducted in the homes of Shabab in two regions.

Hizb is part of the Islamic Revolution, which leads the Ummah to the establishment of the Islamic State. Inshallah it will occur soon. Their hatred for this outcome revealed itself in Moscow and Bashkiria, while Moscow is no longer in a position to intervene in Syria; it has shamefully fled from her. Praise be to Allah (swt), who Grants grace to His slaves. He humiliates whom He pleases, and exalts whom He wills.

(ولتكن منكم أمة يدعون إلى الخير ويأمرون بالمعروف وينهون عن المنكر وأولئك هم المفلحون)

"And let there be arising from you a group inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful." [3:104]

Usman Salihov
The Media Office of Hizb-ut -Tahrir in Russia