Captive terrorists

The Moscow District Military Court at an exit meeting in Ufa sentenced eight residents of Bashkiria to terms of 5 and a half to 10 and a half years old on charges of belonging to the Khizb Ut-Tahri Al-Islami International Organization (Islamic Liberation Party). This was reported on Monday by the regional prosecutor's office.

The defendants were found guilty under part 2 of Article 282.2 (participation in the activities of an extremist organization) and - depending on the role imputed by each of the defendants - in part 1 or 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code (organization of activities of a terrorist organization or participation in it).

The longest term was 40 -year -old Ilgiz Salakhov - he was given 10 and a half years of strict regime with the subsequent restriction of freedom for 1 year. The remaining defendants received terms in a general regime colony: 27-year-old Ilshat Salimov-6 and a half years old, 35-year-old Shamil Khusniyarov, 55-year-old Gazim Kutluyarov and 29-year-old Ruslan Asylov-6 years 4 months, 23-year-old Rustam Gabdullin-5 and a half years old, 23-year-old Rustam Galimkhanov and 29-year-old Idar Fayzullin-5 years 2 months.

The court considered proven that in 2011-2014 Salahov led the Hizb Ut-Tahrir cell in the city of Dyurtyuli and the Dyurtyuli district in the north-west of Bashkiria. Other defendants in the case were recognized as members of the cell, and four had the status of the teacher, while the rest were considered students.

The convicts were allegedly agitated among parishioners of mosques, "showing citizens extremist videos and literature built at the techniques of psychological impact and manipulations", as well as underground meetings and conferences. In total, the prosecutor’s office says, the defendants in the case were recruited by 14 people, but in the future they "voluntarily left its composition."

The activity of the cell, as stated in the department, was suppressed in February 2014 of the FSB.

Hizb Ut-Tahrir was founded in 1953 in Eastern Jerusalem and soon turned into an international organization. The goal of the party is the formation of an Islamic caliphate uniting all Muslim countries.

In Russia, Hizb Ut-Tahrir was banned in 2003 by a decision of the Supreme Court. At the same time, Russia is the only country in which this organization is recognized as terrorist. In some countries of Central Asia, Hizb Ut-Tahrir activists are also pursued, but on charges that are not related to terrorism. In Germany, the party’s public activity is prohibited for non -recognition of Israel, but members are not subjected to persecution. In other European countries, as well as in America, the organization acts legally. This also applies to Ukraine - in the Crimea, until its annexation of Russia, there were also legal party cells.

In Russia, several processes have already passed over the members of the Hizb Ut-Tahrir, at which the defendants received deadlines, often long.