Press Release
The Arrest of Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir Exposes the Claims of Freedoms
and Reveals the Government’s War against Islam!
(Translated)

Following the distribution of a leaflet entitled “Fuel and Electricity Price Hike: A Combination of Insolence and Subordination that Brings Miserable Living”, issued by Hizb ut Tahrir Wilayah of Sudan, the security and intelligence services arrested Brother Ahmad Abdul Fattah from the East Nile region and then released him Saturday. They also arrested Brothers Muhammad Khamees and Adil Farah from the Shaqilab region following the distribution of the leaflet carried out generally in the Masajid. A case has been opened against them in the Kalakalah Al-Liffah police station, under Article 63 of the Criminal Code, which states that: “The call to oppose the general authority with violence or criminal force”. So what violence and criminal force was contained in the leaflet that exposed the true reality about these (price) increases and raised the awareness of the Ummah? Any rational person can ascertain that this article (of the criminal code) has no relationship to the elevated work of carrying the Da’wah to Islam, which our brothers were engaging in when they distributed a leaflet explaining the Shar’iyah rulings, making clear to the people the true realities that are being kept from them and urging them to work for the establishment of the Islamic state which will solve the problems and sufferings that the country is going through, by the rulings of Islam.

The cronies of the regime, who claim that they are committed to the freedoms, thinking that they will break the resilience of the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir and their perseverance upon the Haqq (truth), have punished them by keeping them detained in the police station until the time of the writing of this press release. They are being held under the claim that they are being presented to provide statements of judicial admission. That is whilst they know that the Shabab will not deny distributing the leaflet or their affiliation to Hizb ut Tahrir. The only purpose for doing this is so that they remain detained until Sunday or after that. So their optimism has been disappointed and their arrow has lost all its potency, and that is because the Shabab consider what has happened to them to be a means of drawing near to Allah, although the oppressors do not perceive it.

We, in Hizb ut Tahrir in the Wilayah of Sudan, warn the government and the security services about the anger of Allah and His Fury, whilst they attempt to block the path of Allah and go after the Da’wah carriers through oppressive imprisonment. We reiterate to them that these acts do nothing other than increase the Da’wah carriers in strength, perseverance and confidence in the closeness of the victory of Allah Ta’Aalaa Al-Qawwi Al-‘Azeez.

We draw their attentions, that if they were to contemplate the Qur’an, that they would know with certain knowledge that Allah did not take hold of the previous tyrants except after they had reached the situation of arrogant tyranny and falsifications made against the slaves of Allah. Allah Ta’Aalaa said:

(الَّذِينَ طَغَوْا فِي الْبِلادِ * فَأَكْثَرُوا فِيهَا الْفَسَادَ * فَصَبَّ عَلَيْهِمْ رَبُّكَ سَوْطَ عَذَابٍ * إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَبِالْمِرْصَادِ)

"[Those] who transgressed beyond bounds in the lands. And made much corruption within them. So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment. Indeed, your Lord is always observing" [Al-Fajr: 11-14].

And truly Allah is ever watchful, over every one who tyrannizes and behaves arrogantly and oppressively, then blocks the people from the Da’wah for the application of the Shar’a of Allah, indeed, they harm the creation and bring corruption to the land of Allah with all forms of corruption. One of these corruptions is to harm the people through oppressive detention without any basis. Verily, we are confident of the victory of Allah Al-Qawwi Al-Jabbaar and the threats will not frighten us and the arrests will not divert us.

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Wilayah Sudan