Press Statement
The Cowards of the Kyrgyzstan Government Continue their War against Women by Arresting Three Women from Hizb ut Tahrir

On the 2nd of July 2013, Interfax News Agency reported the arrest of three women working with the Islamic political party Hizb ut Tahrir in the Osh region of Kyrgyzstan. The three women, all of which are students, are reported to be aged between 18 and 20 years. They have all been accused of distributing "extremist" material and uploading Islamic videos on YouTube.

The women of Hizb ut Tahrir express their complete rejection of unjust arrest and detention of innocent defenceless women who pose no danger to society and are in fact performing a great service in their fearless effort to expose the truth and challenge false idea and debase values that dominate the global liberal secular culture. The idea that the Kyrgyz Government feel so intimidated by a group of young women who possess no weapon other than an idea and a word is testament to the ideological disability of the current regime and the intellectual failure of liberal democratic values with the secular way of life.

The women of Hizb ut Tahrir expose the gross hypocrisy of the Kyrgyz government and its open hatred of Muslims and its war against Muslim women under the flimsy pretext of national security!  This oppressive regime system publicly shows its enmity against Islam and its system of ruling, as well as indignation and fury against those who work for the return of the political and intellectual path following the noble Prophet (saw)'s Sunnah. The Kyrgyz government deprives women of their right to express their views on political and social issues, uses various methods of intimidation and force to close their mouths rather it forces them to live in harsh social conditions and allowing gangs under its auspices, both directly and indirectly, to commit the most heinous crimes against them through repeated kidnappings well known to all! According to the Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women, Kyrgyzstan is considered a country of primarily origin and transit for human trafficking both internally and externally as if they are belongings or goods! After all these crimes, repression and persecution against the Muslim woman and the government's failure to safeguard them, how dare the Kyrgyz government arrest noble Muslimah citizens as they speak out in favour of a political alternative to the corrupt system that denies them their basic human rights and that keeps women suspended in a permanent state of objectification and insecurity.

The women of Hizb ut Tahrir express our complete support for our sisters in Kyrgyzstan who are working with us for the sake of the return of the Khilafah "Caliphate", asking Allah to make us victorious so that the first Khaleefah in the second Khilafah "Caliphate" Rashidah, the eminent scholar and leader Ata Bin Khalil Al-Rashtah, who will avenge all those who oppressed, humiliated, and harmed us. It will restore dignity and position to the women of Islam to resume an active political role in society, eliminate the treatment of women as second class citizens and created an environment where women were honoured and respected for representing Quran and Sunnah as a way of life instead of being punished for speaking the truth. Finally we say to the Kyrgyz government, beware of Allah's wrath when He said,

(وَلَا تَحْسَبَنَّ اللَّهَ غَافِلًا عَمَّا يَعْمَلُ الظَّالِمُونَ إِنَّمَا يُؤَخِّرُهُمْ لِيَوْمٍ تَشْخَصُ فِيهِ الْأَبْصَارُ)

"And never think that Allah is unaware of what the wrongdoers do. He only delays them for a Day when eyes will stare [in horror]." [Surah Ibrahim: Aya 42]

Women's Section
in The Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir