Kazakh Prosecutor-General Requests Ban of Hizb-ut-Tahrir

摘要

Rashid tusupbekov, Kazakh-stan's Prosecutor-General in mid-March 2005 filed a request with the city court of Astana asking it to recognize Hizb-ut-Tahrir, a religious political party whose goal is to recreate an Islamic caliphate in all the lands of Islam, as an extremist organization and to ban its activity in the country. This was the first request under a new law on fighting extremism. The request said Hizb-ut-Tahrir's activities in Kazakhstan were aimed at changing the constitutional order, violating the country's sovereignty and its territorial integrity, as well as undermining national security and promoting social and religious enmity. The Prosecutor-General noted that these actions must be recognized as extremist under the new law and that the party must be banned in Kazakhstan.