In Tajikistan a Deported Activist from Sweden was Sentenced to 8 years for Involvement in Hizb ut Tahrir

News:

In Tajikistan, the deported activist from Sweden, Farhod Negmatov, was sentenced to eight years in prison on charges of involvement in the activities of "Hizb ut-Tahrir." This was reported by the Tajik service of Radio Free Europe. “We disagree with this verdict, but we did not appeal it to the appellate court to avoid creating additional problems”, - one of the activist's relatives said.

It is reminded that Farhod Negmatov and his three daughters were deported from Sweden on December 27, 2024. Upon arrival in Dushanbe, he was immediately detained, and his daughters were handed over to relatives. In 2019, the Negmatov family emigrated to Ukraine, but after the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion, the refugees moved to Gothenburg, Sweden. "Farhod Negmatov repeatedly requested political asylum there, but each time he was denied", - a source told Radio Ozodi. In Tajikistan, the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir were banned by a decision of the Supreme Court in 2001.

Comment:

It is noteworthy that this is not the first case where Tajik asylum seekers have been sentenced to long prison terms in Tajikistan after being deported from Europe. After being expelled from Germany, Abdullo Shamsiddin — the son of Tajik oppositionist and member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT), Shamsiddin Saidov — was sentenced to seven years in prison. Similar deportations and extraditions have long been happening in various European countries.

This trend of handing over political activists to dictators for destruction once again demonstrates how hypocritical the words of Western politicians are regarding the protection of their liberal values and freedoms. In reality, they are ready to abandon these declared values at the first convenient opportunity, especially when it concerns the ideological threat of Islam. In the confrontation with Islamic ideological expansion, formally democratic Western countries and Eastern dictatorships are absolutely united and in solidarity; they coordinate their actions and help each other. Muslims, if needed at all by Western countries, are only as silent laborers who will replenish their population decline. Therefore, every Muslim living in the West and refusing to assimilate is automatically in danger.

Muslims should not place their hopes in Western countries to save them from dictatorship — this is a trap and a game of "good cop, bad cop," as the dictators in our countries are merely the flesh and blood product of Western colonizers.

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Muhammad Mansour