On the 7th of September 2016 in the city of Sterlitamak and Slavat located in Bashkiria, raids and searches took place in the houses of four Muslims who were arrested under the charge of being affiliated to Hizb ut Tahrir.

Russian media broadcasted on July 12, a news story about the arrest of the Imam of Moscow’s Yardam Mosque, Sheikh Mahmoud Velitov based on the Russian Bureau of Investigation. The Sheikh was charged according to Article 205.2 of the Russian Federation Constitution with publicly supporting terrorism, punishable by imprisonment from 2-5 years, and the Sheikh was referred to house arrest

On Wednesday the 4th of May, the Russian media outlets mentioned based on information from the Russian federal security apparatus that “A group of citizens from Central Asian states were arrested in the city of Moscow who had been planning to undertake a series of terrorist acts in the Moscow region, during the days of the celebrations, under the commands of the leaders of terrorist organisations operating within Turkey and…

The court in St Petersburg issued verdicts criminalising two Shabab due to their affiliation to Hizb ut Tahrir. On March 31st, the Regional Moscow military court in the final hearing sentenced Roman Ivanov (born in 1980) to 13 years and four months of hard labour in accordance to the first part of the article 205.5.1 of the Criminal code of the Russian Federation (Organising acts of a terrorist organisation). On…