UFA, Russia -- Six alleged members of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir Islamic group have been detained in the Russian Republic of Bashkortostan, RFE/RL's Tatar-Bashkir Service reports.
Bashkir Interior Ministry officials said on April 7 that the republic's police and Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) carried out a special operation on April 6 in which they raided the apartments of 12 suspects in the capital, Ufa, and the nearby village of Alekseyevka.
Many books with extremist religious content, leaflets propagating Hizb ut-Tahrir and its ideas, and several computers were confiscated.
Of the 12 suspects whose apartments were searched, six were sent to a detention center. The remaining suspects are also under investigation but were not taken into custody.
The suspects are men aged between 17 and 35.
Read more in Tatar here
Bashkir Interior Ministry officials said on April 7 that the republic's police and Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) carried out a special operation on April 6 in which they raided the apartments of 12 suspects in the capital, Ufa, and the nearby village of Alekseyevka.
Many books with extremist religious content, leaflets propagating Hizb ut-Tahrir and its ideas, and several computers were confiscated.
Of the 12 suspects whose apartments were searched, six were sent to a detention center. The remaining suspects are also under investigation but were not taken into custody.
The suspects are men aged between 17 and 35.
Read more in Tatar here
