A Tajik Deported from Sweden Sentenced to 8 Years in Prison for Joining Hizb ut-Tahrir
(Translated)
News:
In Tajikistan, activist Farhod Naimatov, who was deported from Sweden, was sentenced to eight years in prison for engaging in the activities of Hizb ut-Tahrir. This was reported by the Tajik Service of Radio Free Europe. A relative of the activist stated: "We reject this verdict, but we did not appeal it to the court of appeal to avoid causing additional problems."
It is worth mentioning that Farhod Naimatov 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 their relatives. In 2019, his family emigrated to Ukraine, but after the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, they moved to Gothenburg, Sweden. A source told Radio Ozodi: "Farhod Naimatov repeatedly applied for political asylum there, but each time his request was rejected." In Tajikistan, Hizb ut-Tahrir was banned by a Supreme Court decision in 2001.
Comment:
This is not the first case in which Tajik asylum seekers have been sentenced to long prison terms in Tajikistan after being deported from Europe. After being deported from Germany, Abdullah Shamsiddin, the son of Tajik opposition figure and member of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, Shamsiddin Saidov, was sentenced to seven years in prison. Various European countries have witnessed similar deportation and extradition operations for a long time.
This trend towards handing over political activists to dictators to destroy them shows, once again, the hypocrisy of Western politicians' statements regarding the protection of their values and liberal freedoms. In reality, they are willing to abandon these declared values at the first opportunity, especially when it comes to the threat of principled Islam. In the face of the expansion of principled Islam, Western democratic countries and Eastern dictatorships unite and stand in solidarity; they coordinate their actions and help each other. Muslims, if Western countries need them, are merely silent workers who will compensate for their declining population. Therefore, every Muslim who lives in the West and refuses to assimilate is automatically at risk.
Muslims should not pin their hopes on Western countries to save them from dictatorship, as this is a trap and a game of "good cop, bad cop." The tyrants in our countries are nothing but the product of Western colonialists.
Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut-Tahrir by
Muhammad Mansour