BISHKEK. Nov 28 (Interfax) - An active member of Hizb ut-Tahrir who recruited people for this outlawed extremist organization has been detained by Kyrgyz special services, a spokesman for Kyrgyzstan's National Security Committee told Interfax on Thursday.
The Kyrgyz citizen was previously convicted of "publicly calling for the violent subversion of the constitutional system" and "inciting ethnic, racial and religious hatred," the spokesman said.
"It has been established that the detained man recruited new members into Hizb ut-Tahrir among the population of Bishkek's residential areas," he said.
Numerous "banned books and digital records intended to promote extremist religious ideas" were confiscated from his apartment, the spokesman said.
A criminal investigation has been opened. The man has already been placed in the National Security Committee's remand center.