The head of the human rights organization "Memorial,"  Vitaly Ponomarev, said that, "Karimov took advantage of the Islamic ideology to get rid of the opposition forces of the democratic state. "According to Vitaly, there were views at that time that Karimov should adopt the Islamic thoughts to be able to subdue the Muslims and weaken their strength.

Member States of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization will actively exchange information in criminal cases and accusation files concerning members of the International Organization of the Islamic Hizb ut Tahrir; according to the News Agency

On 27 April 2014, Ozodlik Radiosi published a news report stating that a person suspected to be an Uzbek intelligence had been arrested in the town of Karasu in Osh region of Kyrgyzstan. The news mentioned that while the person was arrested he showed resistance and hurt a number of police officers