From: MSN NicknameEagle_wng (Original Message) Sent: 4/5/2005 6:05 AM 5.4.2005 12:55 MSK Russian persecution of Muslims increases RUSSIA, Moscow. Any Islamic literature can now be used as material evidence of guilt in court trials against Muslims. In the fall of 2004, this process occurred in many regions of Russia, noted Memorial Human Rights Center representative Vitalius Ponomarev at a press conference called " The Violation of Muslim Rights in Russia".
According to Memorial, persecutions of the followers of Islam are increasing and getting worse. In the middle of March in Almetevsk (Tatarstan), in a picketing action against Muslims, several men there were detained and beaten. Law enforcement agencies found it impossible to prove that they were members of the forbidden party "Khizb ut-Takhrir", and they let the detainees go after taking their money.
Ponomarev reported that according to information provided by Ayrat Vakhitov, in Tatarstan, he and other former prisoners of Guantanamo were put under extreme pressure. On April 1, in Bugulme, Timur Ishmuradov was detained. He spent five days under administrative arrest for speaking out in a mosque. In Naberezhnye Chelny a UBOP officer demanded that Ravil Gumerov not assemble humanitarian assistance for Muslims detained in investigation areas. On April 2nd, Gumerov was arrested and charged with terrorism. Furthermore, Vakhitov reported that his brother (not a former prisoner of Guantanamo) was arrested in Nefteyuganske and charged with threatening to blow up a gas pipe, according to Ponomarev.
The Director of the Islamic Human Rights Center, the mufti of the Orenburg Region, Ismail -Xazrat Shangareyev, reported that in October 2004, law enforcement authorities threw a grenade into a madrassa in Buguruslane. In November of the same year, OBR representatives searched and degraded students and trampled on the Koran. Shangareyev described that his brother, who lives in the Astrakhan province, was arrested with planted narcotics and a grenade. In the opinion of Mufti Shangareyev, unconscientious journalists are turning society against Islam.
Translated by OM Kenney PRIMA-News Agency [2005-04-03-Rus-31] http://www.prima-news.ru/eng/news/news/2005/4/5/31721.html
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