DUSHANBE, August 3, 2015, Asia-Plus – Two Tajik nationals have reportedly been jailed in Uzbekistan for extremism.
Russian news agency
Interfax
reports the propagating materials of the outlawed religious extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir have been found in notebook and in electronic information carriers of two Tajik nationals during inspection of passengers for the train Moscow-Dushanbe.
Both of them have been sentenced to six year in jail, a spokesman for Uzbekistan’s Qashqadarya region court told I
nterfax
in an interview.
Hizb ut-Tahrir is a Sunni political organization that seeks to unite all Muslim countries into an Islamic caliphate.
The Supreme Court of Tajikistan formally labeled the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamist group as an extremist organization on March 11, 2008. The ruling followed a request submitted to the court by Tajik chief prosecutor. Although the group has been outlawed in Tajikistan since April 2001, the ruling means even tighter restrictions on the group”s presence on the Internet and its use of media to promote its ideology.
