The FSB announced the detention of Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders in Russia

The FSB announced the detention of Russian Hizb ut-Tahrir leaders in Tatarstan. about this with reference to the FSB Public Relations Center. writes Interfax

According to law enforcers, the detainees “at the direction of their foreign curators “coordinated anti-constitutional activities based on the doctrine of creating a theocratic unitary state – the so-called ‘world caliphate’, and aimed at overthrowing the legitimate government, including by terrorist methods.” In addition, the FSB believes that the detainees involved Hizb ut-Tahrir in the activities and carried out purposeful work “to create a closed network structure on the territory of Russia, to complete the tasks of replenishing the combat formations of a terrorist organization operating in the territories of the countries of the Middle East.”

The FSB said that during the arrest they seized prohibited materials indicating agents, work reports, communications equipment and electronic media. All detainees were arrested. How many people were detained is not specified.

• Hizb ut-Tahrir is recognized as a terrorist organization in the Russian Federation. Cases of terrorism have been opened in different regions of the country, while members of the cells of the organization are accused and sentenced to various terms in a strict regime colony only on the basis that they met in apartments, read religious literature and recruited new members.
• OVD-Info to monitor the affairs of Hizb ut-Tahrir. We recently looked into the Ufa case and wrote about its defendants.