Hizb ut-Tahrir activists sentenced in Kazakhstan

Alma-Ata, July 1, Interfax – A district court in the city of Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, has passed a guilty verdict in the case of five members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir extremist group, lawyer Tulegen Berlikozhanov told Interfax.

The court found all of them guilty of fomenting ethnic and religious hatred, calling for the violence subversion of the country’s constitutional system and promoting terrorism ideas, he said.

“The court resolution convicts Mukhit Musokhozhanov of establishing and leading this group and sentences him to seven years in prison. My second client, Kuanysh Botbayev, received six years and a half in prison, and the remaining three persons, Yerbolat Ospanov, Askhat Sarsenbayev and Onlasyn Duisembayev, were also found guilty and were sentenced to six years in prison each,” Berlikozhanov said.

Source: interfax-religion.com