Press Release
Kyrgyz Authorities continue to Arrest members of Hizb ut Tahrir while the Media Spreads Lies

On the 30-31st of December, searches were conducted in 17 houses of members of Hizb ut Tahrir in Kyrgyzstan in Nookenskiy, Bazar Korgonskiy, Suzakskiy districts of Jalal-Abadskiy region, and in the villages situated in Arslanbob Valley of Jalal-Abadskiy region and in the city of Jalal-Abad. Press Secretary of Interior Affairs Ministry Bakit Seitov reported, “Activities were carried out under the guidance of Rais Salimov, Deputy Chief of the 10th Main Directorate of the Ministry, and Jenish Jorobekov, Chief of Police in Jalal-Abad region. There were found during searches 150 books and extremist leaflets, 200 compact-discs, notepads, newspapers, drugs, weapons and ammunition.” Media outlets hastened to spread information under the headlines: “Police found weapons and ammunition in houses of members of Hizb ut Tahrir.”

This hateful position of authorities against Islam and Muslims in Kyrgyzstan, especially against members of Hizb ut Tahrir, shows that government finally moved to the side of such tyrants as Karimov, Rahmon, Nazarbaev, and others who persecute Muslims and fight against any manifestation of Islam in life.

During the searches, representatives of the authorities carried out offensives against the homeowners, beat them and even threatened with violence against their young children, planted weapons, drugs and ammunition on their possessions. Kyrgyz media in its role had spread obviously false information about dawah carriers, even though they knew about the violations occurring during the searches, falsification and planting of weapons and drugs during searches, not being afraid that the truth will be revealed in the future.

We in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir state the following:

1. Hizb ut Tahrir is a political party whose ideology is Islam, so politics is its work and Islam is its ideology. It works within the Ummah and together with it, so that it adopts Islam as its cause and is led to restore the Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) on the method of the Prophethood and the ruling by what Allah (swt) revealed. Hizb ut Tahrir is a political party, and is not an armed group that uses material means.

2. The method of Hizb ut Tahrir in achieving its goal is well known by its steadfastness, firmness and immutability. The Hizb defined its method of work into three stages. First stage is of culturing. Second is the stage of interaction with Ummah and seeking Nussrah from the owners of power to hand over the rule. The third stage is the establishing government in Muslim countries, implementing Islam generally and comprehensively under the shade of the second righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" (Caliphate) upon the method of the Prophethood, and carrying it as a message of guidance and mercy to the world through dawah and Jihad. Hizb ut Tahrir does not use violence in any country whatsoever to achieve its goals. The track history of the party since its foundation in 1953 attests to this.

3. Hizb ut Tahrir has official representatives all over the world, and anyone may contact them for further clarification about the activity of party. There are also several official websites with the official books of the party. It is possible to access this information in different languages to understand the aims of Hizb ut Tahrir and its activities.

Although Hizb ut Tahrir carries out its political activity publicly, showing to everybody its clear political program for more than 60 years, whereas tyrants slander Hizb ut Tahrir. Banning the Hizb activity in the country, naming members of Hizb as terrorists and extremists, authorities seek to insulate people from interaction with them, depriving the people from recognizing the truth. The government also bans the party's books, describing it as extremism, to isolate people from free access to the truth that is explained in our books.

What Hizb ut Tahrir carries to the people is the truth, i.e. Islam. Islam solved all the problems of mankind, that is in a severe misery and unhappiness because of the implementation a corrupt system over them applied by humans. Because, these false laws are applied by lying cowardly politicians. These politicians plunder the people, persecute women and children, slander on the sincere sons of Ummah who call the people to the salvation - Islam. They persecute the dawah carriers Muslim and they arrest, torture and kill them in the prisons. Nevertheless, no matter how much they fight against Islam and Muslims, Allah Almighty will help His Muslim servants.

Allah Almighty said:

((يُرِيدُونَ لِيُطْفِئُوا نُورَ اللَّهِ بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ وَاللَّهُ مُتِمُّ نُورِهِ وَلَوْ كَرِهَ الْكَافِرُونَ))

“They want to extinguish the light of Allah with their mouths, but Allah will perfect His light, although the disbelievers dislike it.” [61:8]

The Central Media Office
of Hizb ut Tahrir