Russia's FSB has liquidated a cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami banned in Russia in Crimea, and four of its members have been detained. This was reported to TASS on Wednesday in the Center for Public Relations (CPR) of the Federal Security Service of Russia.
"The Federal Security Service in cooperation with units of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Republic of Crimea has suppressed the activities of a cell of the international terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (banned in Russia by the decision of the Russian Supreme Court in 2003). Four members of the terrorist structure were detained," stressed the CPR.
It was established that "members of the cell carried out anti-constitutional activities based on the doctrine of creation of a so-called global caliphate, destruction of institutions of secular society and aimed at the overthrow of the current government by force. "Using measures of conspiracy during meetings, they disseminated terrorist ideology among the inhabitants of the peninsula," the FSB reported.
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Based on materials from TASS