Press Release: Russian Intelligence Continues in the Work of Fabrication against Hizb ut Tahrir in Petersburg

Russian Intelligence Continues in the Work of Fabrication against Hizb ut Tahrir in Petersburg
(Translated)

Once again, Russian intelligence in St. Petersburg declared the arrest, during a special operation, of “the terrorist organization leader” of Hizb ut Tahrir. The fact of the so-called “Special Operation” is simply summed up in the arrival of Special Forces to the student dormitory in the State Marine Technical University of St. Petersburg who arrested the fifth-year student, Elias Kakirov. Nothing indicative, even remotely, of “Islamic extremism” was found in his room so they placed a kitchen knife on the prayer mat and took a video of it, which has been published in the media.

The security officers are forced from time to time to play “performing their serious security operation to arrest dangerous terrorists”, where men heavily armed from head to toe break into ordinary student dormitories in a barbaric manner, and search for anything to take a video of it, so that they give the impression to people that this is a very serious incident.

According to the Press Office of the Police Department, “as a result of the joint efforts between Russian intelligence and the Interior Ministry in St. Petersburg the activities of the global terrorist organization, “the Islamic Liberation Party” [Hizb ut Tahrir], has been suppressed. At the present time there is no planning to carry out arrests on the background of this case”. Thus, the result is now the arrest of nine innocent Muslims, and they considered that sufficient to more fabrication against the criminal case that was filed in 2014.

We remind you that Russia is the only country in the world that considers Hizb ut Tahrir a terrorist party. So, it is not surprising that all terrorism charges, directed to the members of the party, are evidently based on lies and delusional propaganda through the press and media, which does not contain any real evidence of an actual crime.

Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir
in Russia