Press Release
Russian Authorities Have Nothing to Confront Hizb ut Tahrir with Except Arrest and Murder!
(Translated)

Lenta.ru site reported on 30/07/2014 from the Russian Interfax news agency that the Moscow City Court sentenced four members of Hizb ut Tahrir. They are: Azizbek Inamov (age 37), Shamil Ismailov (age 40), Saypula Kurbanov (age 34), and Zikrullokhon Rakhmonkhodzhaev (age 38); whom were accused of terrorist activities that are banned on Russian territories. They were also accused of organization and participation in activities of a banned extremist organization, and planning to seize power by force and change the constitutional order of the Russian Federation. As well as being charged of illegally obtaining and possessing weapons and explosives. Inamov was sentenced to 11 years in prison with hard labor and a fine of 200 thousand rubles. While Ismailov and Kurbanov were sentenced to 8 years in prison with hard labor and a fine of 100 thousand rubles and 150 thousand rubles, respectively and Rakhmonkhodzhaev was sentenced to imprisonment for 7 years with hard labor and a fine of 50 thousand rubles.

Through these severe judgments, the Russian regime proves its barbarity and intellectual bankruptcy, since the authority in Russia does not have the minimum intellectual alternative to face the call of Haq (truth), which the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir carry. Authorities are resorting to the methods of Inquisition of the Middle Ages and to the methods of the tyrant Stalin of repression and falsification of charges, in a desperate attempt to suppress the voice of truth.

On the one hand, the authorities resorted to explicit lying in relation to Hizb ut Tahrir on television, magazines and newspapers to publish false accusations against the Shabab of carrying out terrorist acts to seize power, and use of violence to change the constitutional system of the Russian Federation. Every sane person can study the party's program to discover the extent of this slander. The party's program is publicly available for anyone who wants to study it in the world and in multiple languages.

On the other hand, the government is pursuing anyone who presents the Hizb's ideas about the Khilafah "Caliphate" in society. It has banned all the party's publications and is prosecuting and criminalizing anyone who promotes it. It applies harsh punishments on those who have been arrested and tortured in prisons, and even pursues their loved ones as well. These are all practices of the defunct Stalinist regime reminiscent of the practices of Nazism and fascist regimes, which ended in a bottomless abyss.

But in spite of the lies, persecution and hatred towards Islam and Muslims by the Russian authorities, the righteous sons of Islam in Russia favor the Hereafter over this fleeting life, so these barbaric practices only increase in them attraction to the Deen of Allah and the call of truth. Hence their fortitude, activity and resolve have increased, making the hearts of Muslims incline to them so they join to the Hizb's Shabab, and the Dawah supporters among the people increase.

O Muslims in Russia! The members of Hizb ut Tahrir are your brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers, we are of you and you are of us. They jail us and they persecute us because we call for the word of Haq (truth) from our Lord. You know us well! Since we grew up together, and we live together! These arrests and prosecutions are only tests and trials in our path. Allah Almighty says in the Holy Qur'an:

(وَكَأَيِّن مِّن نَّبِيٍّ قَاتَلَ مَعَهُ رِبِّيُّونَ كَثِيرٌ فَمَا وَهَنُواْ لِمَا أَصَابَهُمْ فِي سَبِيلِ اللّهِ وَمَا ضَعُفُواْ وَمَا اسْتَكَانُواْ وَاللّهُ يُحِبُّ الصَّابِرِينَ)

"And how many a prophet [fought and] with him fought many religious scholars. But they never lost assurance due to what afflicted them in the cause of Allah, nor did they weaken or submit. And Allah loves the steadfast." [Al-i-Imran: 146].

O Muslims in Russia! Hizb ut Tahrir works to resume the Islamic way of life by way of the establishment of the rightly guided Khilafah "Caliphate" State by following the method of our beloved Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him, and it is the path of glory, honor and justice. How can it not, and it has been drawn for us by the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon him, and we promise Allah to move forward in support of His Deen and uphold His word on the method of His Prophet Al-Mustafa peace be upon him. The Almighty says:

(وَعَدَ اللَّهُ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مِنكُمْ وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ لَيَسْتَخْلِفَنَّهُم فِي الْأَرْضِ كَمَا اسْتَخْلَفَ الَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ)

"Allah has promised those who have believed among you and done righteous deeds that He will surely grant them succession [to authority] upon the earth just as He granted it to those before them." [An-Nur: 55]

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