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11 members of Hizb ut-Tahrir extremist organization convicted in Tatarstan

Kazan, October 30, Interfax - The Supreme Court of Tatarstan found 12 activists of the Kazan division of the international terrorist organization Islamic Liberation Party (Hizb ut-Tahrir) guilty of extremism.

"Seven men, including Tajik citizen Dzhurayev and six Russians, have received four to eight years in a penal colony," court press secretary Natalya Loseva told Interfax.

Four other Kazan residents have received suspended sentences of three years and six months to five years in prison.

"The accomplice Gimaliyev was found insane and is exempt from criminal liability. He will be forcibly treated," Loseva said.

The sentence has not yet gone into legal force.

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