Dushanbe, May 15, Interfax - The Khudjand town court in Tajikistan issued a guilty verdict against seven members of the banned extremist party Hizb ut-Tahrir, the court said on Friday.
The court has found them guilty of inciting religious and ethnic hatred and calling for the overthrow of the Tajikistan's constitutional system.
All the convicts are residents of Khudjand, located not far from the country's border with Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan.
The defendants have been sentenced to between three and nine years at a high-security prison.
The majority of Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters are detained in the north of the country on the border crossing between three countries - Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 2008, several dozens of suspected members of various extremist organizations were convicted in Tajikistan.
The Hizb ut-Tahrir Party was formed in Palestine in 1952. Its key goal is to overthrow the current political systems in Muslim countries and to build a united Islamic state or Khalifat. The party was put on the list of extremist and terrorist parties and organizations by Tajikistan's National Security Committee, the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and the U.S. secret services.
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