Press Release
Russian Special Services Again Arrested the Members of Hizb ut Tahrir

On 24 June on the threshold of Holy Ramadan in St. Petersburg, the special services conducted a special operation to arrest the Muslims from Hizb ut Tahrir. As reported by the media, 150 officers of FSC and MIA, also "GRAD" and OMON fighters were involved in the event. 50 Muslims were detained, among them were the immigrants from the Central Asian republics of the former USSR and the natives of Russia and St. Petersburg. Later it became known that a preventive measure as detention was selected against six of the detainees.

The press-centers of the special services reported that the reason for the searches and detentions is the criminal case on Article 205.5 Part 1 "Organization of the activity of terrorist body" and Article 282.2 Part 1 "Organization of the activity of extremist body". The investigation department of FSC administration has initiated the case.

This is the second criminal case initiated by FSC on anti-terrorist Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code of the RF against the Islamic call carriers from Hizb ut Tahrir. Previously we reported that in the end of February 2014 some party members were arrested by the special services in Bashkir town Dyurtyuly. At that moment, this Article 205.5 provided for up to 20 years of imprisonment, but in April, some amendments toughening the sanction under this article entered into force up to life imprisonment. Responding to a question about the reason of such an extreme act and the reason for special services breaking into houses of the sincere Muslims from Hizb ut Tahrir, we are saying:  This savagery has only one explanation - the Russian authorities hate the Muslims and try to stop the spreading of Islam.

Allah (swt) said:

(قَدْ بَدَتِ الْبَغْضَاءُ مِنْ أَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَمَا تُخْفِي صُدُورُهُمْ أَكْبَرُ قَدْ بَيَّنَّا لَكُمُ الآيَاتِ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ تَعْقِلُونَ)

"Hatred has already appeared from their mouths, and what their breasts conceal is greater. We have certainly made clear to you the signs, if you will use reason!" [Ali-Imran: 118]

We again emphasize the fact that Russia was and remains the only country in the world in which the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir is recognized as terrorist organization. The prohibitions or restrictions of the activities do not connect with the accusations in terror. But even if all countries ban the activity of Hizb ut Tahrir, it only testifies that they are like Russia lost their minds from their hatred towards Islam and the Muslims.

The party Hizb ut Tahrir was formed and still works to renew the Islamic way of life by reestablishment of the Khilafah "Caliphate", because only the state can fully implement the laws of Allah (swt).

The group has formed in response of the words of Allah (swt):

(وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ)

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

These words not only give the right, but also oblige to invite to good, i.e. to Islam, and also unite in groups to reestablish the Khilafah "Caliphate", where it will be possible to fully carry out the orders to do good things and forbid the wrong. The activity of the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir is restricted with the rule of Allah (swt) and coincides with the way of the Prophet Muhammad (saw), which excludes any physical force for achieving its goal. It is for this reason the arrested members of Hizb ut Tahrir on Article 205.5 are irrelevant of terrorism; and any accusations on anti-terrorist articles are absurd and a blatant lie on the part of the powers.

The authorities are well aware of the fact that Hizb ut Tahrir has no aim to establish the Khilafah "Caliphate" in Russia directly, but they toughen the fight with the party, wanting to stop the spread of the Islamic call and the spread of Islam.  The history of the Muslims has already seen such tyrants in the face of the Quraysh nobility and also seen the fortitude of the first Islamic call carriers headed by the noble Prophet Muhammad (saw). Patience and perseverance before the evil tyrant and relentless in following of the orders of Allah (swt) led the first Muslims to the attainment of their state, that spread the light of Islam worldwide. This is the way of Hizb ut Tahrir, which it follows since its foundation in 1953.

O, noble Ummah! Today they arrest your best sons who call to the truth, not paying attention to the difficulties. These are your sons, who came to protect the Book of Allah (swt), when the authorities wanted to ban one of its translations. These are your sons, who live calling to Islam devoting their lives to it and, often spending their best years in prison. Indeed, the history of resistance of your sons resembles the position of the noble companions of the Prophet Muhammad (saw).

Allah (swt) says:

(إِنَّ هَذِهِ أُمَّتُكُمْ أُمَّةً وَاحِدَةً وَأَنَا رَبُّكُمْ فَاعْبُدُونِ)

"Indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so worship Me!" [Al-Anbiya: 92].

And also Nouman ibn Bashir narrated the words of the Prophet of Allah (saw):

"مثل المؤمنين في توادّهم وتراحمهم وتعاطفهم كمثل الجسد الواحد إذا اشتكى منه عضو تداعى له سائر الجسد بالحمى والسهر"

"You see the believers in their mercy and their mutual love and sympathy like one body, if one limb complained, the rest of the body falls into wakefulness and fever." (Muslim)

So let the evil caused today to the Islamic Ummah strengthen and unite it, let the Muslims like one body take pains in all that is good, in spreading of the Islamic knowledge and in calling to the truth from their Lord. And this, insha Allah, will be the best reaction on the actions of Islam and the Muslims' enemies.

The Messenger of Allah (saw) informed us:

"فإن من ورائكم أيام الصبر، الصبر فيهن مثل القبض على الجمر، للعامل فيهن مثل أجر خمسين رجلاً يعملون مثل عمله"

"After you there are going to be days of patience. The patience during that time is like the one clutching on to a hot coal. During those days the reward for the one who adheres to the Commands of Allah will be equivalent to the reward of fifty men who did an action like his." (Ibn Majja).

Those who want to stop the call to Islam, depriving them of freedom of its sincere carriers, we answer by the words of the Prophet of Allah (saw):

" لا يبقى على ظهر الأرض بيت مدر ولا وبر إلا أدخله الله كلمة الإسلام ، بعز عزيز وذل ذليل، إما يعزهم الله فيجعلهم من أهلها، أو يذلهم فيدينون لها "

"This case is sure to reach the horizon of night and day. Allah will not leave a single house settled or nomadic not only as setting this Deen with the glory of the glorious or the humiliation of the insignificant. Allah will exalt Islam with glory and demean disbelief with humiliation." (Ahmad).

 Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir in Russia