8 religious organizations on Kyrgyz blacklist
- Written by CentralAsiaOnline
BISHKEK, May 7 (CentralAsiaOnline) – The Kyrgyz State Committee for National Security (GKNB) blacklist contains eight religious organizations, and the most dangerous one is Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT), GKNB Chairman Shamil Atakhanov told Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in an interview published May 3.
Other blacklisted groups include the Unification Church, the Islamic Jihad Union, Tablighi Jamaat and al-Qaeda.
HT always has been able to exploit Kyrgyzstan’s political changes, analyst Uran Botobekov told RFE/RL, recalling the 2010 Nookat case.
The most dangerous groups are those that promote jihadism, religious-issues scholar Kadyr Malikov told RFE/RL, adding that a non-jihadist movement like Tablighi Jamaat poses no extremist threat.
Kyrgyzstan has as many as 10,000 members of banned extremist organizations, according to various data, RFE/RL reported May 4.
