On 25th January 2017 Russian media stated that the head of the Russian Interior Ministry in the Republic of Tatarstan Artem Hohorin reported at a meeting on the results of his department’s work in 2016: initiating criminal cases against several Hizb ut Tahrir members who are of Russian citizenship living at the moment in Sweden, and shortly prior their relatives’ apartments were searched, and other operational activities took place. Hohorin…

On Sunday the 1st of January, a deputy provincial governor in the Iranian capital said that homeless women in Tehran who are drug-dependent and who also practice prostitution should be encouraged to be sterilized. He stated that over 20 percent of them have AIDS and they spread various diseases and that in addition to spreading depravity,

The US dropped 24,287 bombs on Syria and Iraq during 2016, according to a Defense One analysis published on the 5th of January, 2017, by the staff of the US-based Council on Foreign Relations. This means that on average, 67 bombs were dropped every day on Syria and Iraq.

On 14 December, in the Pavlodar Court № 2, Judge Akhmetova issued a verdict on Ruslan Ginatulin, (age 34), accused of committing a crime, the responsibility for which is provided by Part 3 of Article 235 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan (the CC of RK) (“Participation in a criminal association”) and Part 1 of Article 174 of the CC of RK (“A deliberate action aimed at…