Despite the ongoing suffering, humiliation and oppression, no power has been able to remove Islam from the hearts of the people in Uzbekistan, in fact, their love of Islam has increased, thus Islam has become the regime's nightmare.

Under the pretext of "fighting extremism", the Uzbek authorities have declared war not only against Islamic movements, but also against all Muslims, taking advantage of what was carried out by their own hands of terrorist acts on February 16, 1999 CE.

The declaration of war on Islam and Muslims is increasing day after day; for example, prisoners are being brutally tortured; they are buried underground, and calcium oxide with water is poured over them and they hang them from their hands and feet, and subject them to rape and sexual humiliation. They suffocate them with plastic bags and gas masks, and are placed in solitary confinement because they pray, or refuse to write a plea to the president.

There are in Uzbekistan's prisons and detention camps, according to various sources, 20,000 Muslims, including approximately 6,000 members of Hizb ut Tahrir, sentenced according to the law of "religious" crimes! These are more vulnerable to brutal torture, which led some of them to madness.

For example, detainee Jamal al-Din Karimov, born in 1977, was sentenced to 18 years in prison under Article 159 of the Criminal Code "working to overthrow the constitutional system of Uzbekistan". Since October 2001, he was transferred between two prisons which are the most horrific in Navoi, in Gesliq village in Karakalpakstan, and the prison in the city of Andijan. In 2003, while Jamaluddin Karimov was in Gesliq, the guards beat his entire body, breaking his arm ... causing him a painful shock which led him to lose his mind.

In Prison 64/71 in Gesliq, where Karimov is still being held, all prisoners suffer from mental illness as a result of their torture. One method of torture used against prisoners is to sodomize them with a truncheon contaminated with AIDS.

The "religiously committed" are tortured in prisons by preventing them from praying, and if they catch them praying, they are tortured physically, and if the detainee tried to defend himself, they punish him again.

Religious prisoners, especially members of Hizb ut Tahrir, are deprived of their liberty at the end of their sentences; and their arrest is renewed on fabricated charges of violating the rules of procedure and disobeying orders. They are not released from prisons and are not included in amnesty except those who agree to the terms such as the condemnation of religious work, or serving with the security forces or the Uzbek intelligence services, or those who are in a highly deteriorated health condition. For example, on February 11, 2015, 16 prisoners were pardoned.

As for the conditions of our sisters in the prisons and detention centers of the despotic regime, they cannot be described without tears. Recently, one of the oppressed sisters wrote a letter of appeal, stating that 7 or 8 staff interrogated one of her friends in the room, and during her interrogation they beat her with sticks, and pulled her by her hair and beat her head against the wall and asked her to write the names of all those who help her financially, after which they raped her using clubs. They had asked another woman the same thing and threatened her that if she does not comply, they will remove all her clothes in front of everyone and then they will drag her in the prison corridors while naked and beat her with clubs, and if she refuses then they will rape her in front of her brother and her children. Notice how these tyrants torture vulnerable women for taking money from someone because of their miserable state, although supporting them is a duty and the State's responsibility, what then would they do to someone who does not recognize the Karimov regime and his criminal gangs?

As for outside the prison, the government prevents the Khimaar in public places, workplaces, and schools, and threatens whoever wears it expulsion from education and dismissal from work.

During the past six months, and in several areas in Uzbekistan, dozens were arrested on fabricated charges. In Ferghana Valley in particular, more than 70 people have been arrested for religious reasons. During interrogation, the security agencies commit the ugliest methods of physical and psychological torture to obtain confessions from suspects! For example, they exposed the wives naked in front of their husbands and threatened to rape them. The families of the defendants are arrested without justification, and they use them as bargain for releasing the family in exchange for their confessions. They used injections and beat children in front of their parents, and electrocuted their bodies through their mouths and hands.

Muslims who seek to live according to Islam are forced to leave the country, and part from their parents, children and families, and to stay away from their homes and businesses.

The severe repression and persecution of the believing Muslims show that the authorities are not only fighting individual people or specific Islamic groups, but are working to destroy the whole of Islam.

One million persons in the intelligence services, internal staff and heads of local gatherings participate in this war on Islam, who are constituted on the grounds of caring for the citizens, and the army, they also form guards in every village or place to maintain security there.

In conclusion, on behalf of the members of Hizb ut Tahrir in Uzbekistan, I tell you that our hearts will not subside until the Khilafah "Caliphate" State on the method of Prophethood returns, and as Prophet Mohammad (saw) said, «... حتى يظهره الله أو أهلك دونه», "...until Allah (swt) makes it victorious, or I perish therein"!