On October 11, 2018, Russian media reported the arrest of Hizb ut Tahrir officials in Russia and Tatarstan. The following day, three of them were arrested. They stated that the three detainees were Edward Nizemov, born in 1977; they described him as the party's branch official in Russia, Eldar Ahmedov, born in 1977, and Rais Jamadinov, born in 1970, both described as party officials in the regions.

On July 18th, in St. Petersburg, the Muslim woman Jannat Bespalova (Alla Bespalova) was pronounced guilty for participating in Hizb ut Tahrir's activities as an exchange for Bespalova’s confession of the charges raised against her and denying her the right to challenge the verdict, and the court did not consider evidence of her conviction and sentenced her to five years' imprisonment.

On the occasion of the presidential elections in Russia, calls were made for Muslims to vote for this or that candidate. The representative of the so-called "official spirituality" and government officials, unashamed before Allah or the believers, call for the support of the current president Vladimir Putin, and others call for voting for the leader of the Apple Party, Grigory Yavlinsky, on the grounds that he will withdraw Russian troops…

Today, hundreds of Muslims are imprisoned in Russia's prisons because of their participation in Hizb ut Tahrir's work. They were falsely accused of "terrorism" based on the 2003 Supreme Court's shameless decision to classify Hizb ut Tahrir as a terrorist organization. According to this unique decision, the Islamic Political Party became a "terrorist" party. With the tightening of Russian laws against party members, the charges became fabricated not on the…