State Security Service of Uzbekistan arrested group of extremists in Bukhara (video)

Operational staff of the State Security Service (SSS) ceased the activities of a banned group of jihadists in Bukhara region, Kun.uz correspondent reports.

In Kagan city, six citizens, aged 28 to 31, created an underground sect of the religious-extremist movement “Jihadism” in the beginning of 2017. They were engaged in ideological training in order to join one of the international terrorist organizations. In particular, the men planned to move to Afghanistan.

The convicts regularly met and studied the appeals of the spiritual leaders of terrorist organizations fighting in Syria through mobile phones. In turn, they promoted these destructive views among their surroundings.

They were seized electronic copies of extremist literature prohibited in the territory of Uzbekistan. In the course of studying these materials, experts noted that they contain ideas calling for jihad, an illegal reformation of the current constitutional order in Uzbekistan.

On this fact, a criminal case under articles 159 (encroachment on the constitutional system of Uzbekistan) and 244-2 (creation, leadership, participation in religious extremist, separatist, fundamentalist or other prohibited organizations) of the Criminal Code of Uzbekistan has been initiated. The investigative actions are under way.