Press Release
Procession of Martyrs from the Prisons of Uzbekistan's Tyrant Continues
(Translated)
(وَبَشِّرِ الصَّابِرِينَ الَّذِينَ إِذَا أَصَابَتْهُم مُّصِيبَةٌ قَالُواْ إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ)
"But give good tidings to the patient, who when disaster strikes them, say “Indeed we belong to Allah, and indeed to Him we will return.” [Al-Baqara: 156]

The procession of martyrs from the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir continues by the hands of the tyrant of Uzbekistan, the Jew and the criminal Karimov. On the 2^nd of September 2013, Brother Ni'manov Kareem John Rustamovitch, was martyred and elevated to the heavens by the permission of Allah - we pray this is so and we do not commend anyone to Allah. He was born in the city of Tashkent in 1975, and was over 38 years old.

Our brother Ni'manov, may Allah have mercy on him, before joining Hizb ut Tahrir worked in the Uzbek Police Institution but after he was introduced to the Shabab of Hizb ut Tahrir and learned about their Dawah to resume the Islamic way of life and about their struggle with the criminal regime of Uzbekistan, he decided to quit his job with the police department and join the ranks of the Hizb so that he does not be a support to the oppressors like the tyrant Karimov and his criminal regime, and it is for his pursuit to gain the pleasure of Allah Azza wa Jal. This is how Ni'manov started his work with Hizb ut Tahrir to resume the Islamic way of life by establishing the Khilafah "Caliphate" Ar-Rashida upon the method of the Prophethood.

Ni'manov, may Allah have mercy on him and accept him as a martyr, was arrested initially in 1999 and sentenced to prison, and was released in the same year. It was not long before they arrested him once again in 2000. He was sentenced to 10 years of imprisonment, before this time was up, specifically in 2010 he was brought to a court trial again and while he was in prison and was sentenced for 5 more years.

Despite the humiliating attempts at times and threats at other times faced by the hands of the henchmen of Karimov in prison, our brother Ni'manov the martyr's strength was not crushed and his zeal was not shaken.  When the oppressor was defeated in trying to weaken his Iman, they would ask him just to sign that he rejects Hizb ut Tahrir and to write a letter asking mercy from the tyrant and his helpers the oppressors and to release him. But alas, how can they break the will of the one who sold his soul to Allah (swt).

In the notorious prison number 64/36, the criminals committed their horrific crime of injecting our brother with the tuberculosis virus. And after he contracted the disease, they did not allow him treatment until the disease intensified and he started coughing blood.

A few days after the martyrdom of our brother, they brought his pure dead body to the house from Ingord 18 prison. Attempting to conceal their horrific crime, so that it does not reach public opinion, a number of men from the intelligence conspired with members of what is called the "local council" to force the family of the martyr Ni'manov to bury his body and they did not allow the gathering of Muslims to pray Salatul Jinazzah (burial prayer).

These cowards proved that they are scared of the Dawah carriers when dead just as their souls tremble with fear from them when they are alive.

Our brother left behind two sons and a daughter to join their orphaned brothers whose fathers were killed by the hands of the regime of the tyrant Karimov the butcher may Allah (swt) destroy him.

(وَلاَ تَقُولُواْ لِمَنْ يُقْتَلُ فِي سَبيلِ اللّهِ أَمْوَاتٌ بَلْ أَحْيَاء وَلَكِن لاَّ تَشْعُرُونَ)

"And do not say about those who are killed in the way of Allah, "They are dead." Rather, they are alive, but you perceive [it] not." [Al-Baqara: 154]

Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir