MOSCOW. Oct 4 (Interfax) - The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has reported detaining two ringleaders and six members of a cell of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami terrorist organization in Moscow and the Moscow region for disseminating radical ideology.
"The Russian Federal Security Service, working together with units of the Interior Ministry and the Russian National Guard Service, has put an end to the activity of a cell of the Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami international terrorist organization [banned by the Russian Supreme Court in 2003] and has detained two ringleaders and six active members of the cell in the city of Moscow and the Moscow region," the FSB public relations center said on Monday.
The detainees were conducting "anti-constitutional activity based on the doctrine of the so-called worldwide caliphate and the destruction of secular society institutions aimed at overthrowing the authorities through violence," the FSB said.
"They were spreading terrorist ideology among residents of the Moscow region at secret meetings," the FSB said.