On 18/2/2016, St. Petersburg electronic newspaper “fantanika.ru” published on its frontpage in bold a fabricated article with blatant lies against Hizb ut Tahrir entitled: "Hizb ut Tahrir planned the operation of the assassination of Mufti Jafar Pennekaev in Al-Jami’ Mosque," and added that this comes in the context of investigations and arrests of those who are going to Syria;

On the 11th of November 2015, the Russian parliament (State Duma) ratified a law preventing the description of the Islamic, Christian, Jewish and Buddhist holy texts as being extremist. "The Bible, Quran, Tanakh, and Kangyur, their contents, and quotations from them cannot be ruled to be extremist materials."

Russia began to bomb different areas in Syria on the 30th of September 2015 where it began these operations directly after the Federal Assembly agreed by consensus to allow Russian forces to be used outside of Russia.

Rosbalt News agency website published an article dated 08/10/2015, titled “Gang (GTA): from stick beatings to guns and iron knobs”, talking about the next version of investigations on the contentious issue that occurred last year. Unfortunately this is not the first time that the site links the incident to a member of Hizb ut Tahrir, as claimed by some "law enforcement sources."