| And so the infection spreads... |
 A local court in Izhevsk (capital of the autonomous republic of Udmurtia bordering with Tatarstan in the south) pressed criminal charges against two members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic Liberation Party) extremist organization, reported sources in the Izhevsk Prosecutor's Office. "Judging by the materials received from the organized crime department, a criminal case has been filed under the Article 'Inciting national, racial or religious hatred' of the Russian Criminal Code," the Prosecutor's Office spokeswoman said. She stated that the criminal charges had been pressed against an engineer from Belkamneft and an unemployed person who were members of the Hizb-ut-Tahrir extremist organization banned by the Russian Supreme Court in 2003. "These people distributed the Hizb-ut-Tahrir pamphlets and conducted instigating propaganda," she underlined. Earlier reports announced that 11 people were detained in the Nizhny Novgorod region in connection with involvement in Hizb-ut-Tahrir activities. During the search, operatives found two grenades and many illegal audio, video and printed materials. At the end of June, the media reported about the detention of 10 the Hizb-ut-Tahrir activists in Tyumen and Tobolsk (West Siberia).
| This might be the first thing that's actually happened in Udmurtia since they invented the chariot wheel... |
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