31 Facts About Hizb ut-Tahrir

Hizb ut-Tahrir is active in Western countries, including the UK, and in several Arab and Central Asian countries despite being banned by some governments.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been banned in Bangladesh, China, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Indonesia, and all Arab countries except Lebanon, Yemen and the UAE.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is a difficult issue for Western and Muslim governments because it aims to restore the Caliphate but rejects the use of violence to bring about political change.

Hizb ut-Tahrir put forward candidates for office in Jordan in the 1950s when it was first formed and before it was banned, according to Suha Taji-Farouki.

Kyrgyz Hizb ut-Tahrir members campaigned unsuccessfully for an affiliated candidate in Kyrgyzstan's national presidential election in July 2005, and have participated in municipal elections where their followers have won in a number of regions.

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In countries where the party is outlawed, Hizb ut-Tahrir's organization is said to be strongly centralized, with its central leadership based in the Palestinian Territories.

Hizb ut-Tahrir sees the Caliphate as eventually replacing not only Muslim states but Western non-Muslim ones, but whether it calls for violence to achieve this is disputed.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is an honour that must be protected.

Hizb ut-Tahrir sees Western influence as the cause of stagnation in the Muslim world, the reason for its failure to re-establish the caliphate thus far, and something in need of being attacked and uprooted.

Hizb ut-Tahrir strongly opposes Zionism and existence of the state of Israel, or any compromise or peaceful relations with that state.

Hizb ut-Tahrir established this Islamic state without resorting to violence.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is proscribed in most Arab countries, but as of 2006 was permitted to operate in the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Yemen.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is thought to have several hundred members in Azerbaijan as of 2002.

In 1969, when the son of Iraq's highest Shia Ayatollah Muhsin al-Hakim was arrested and allegedly tortured, during widespread persecution of Shia, Abd al-Aziz al-Badri, a Sunni Islamic lawyer and local Hizb ut-Tahrir leader, criticised the regime, and was killed under torture.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was assassinated on 11 April 1980 by Libyan operatives outside London's Regent's Park Mosque.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is banned throughout Central Asia, and has been accused of terrorist activity or assisting in terrorist activity.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was first started in Central Asia in Ferghana Valley in Uzbekistan and most HT members in the former Soviet Union are ethnic Uzbeks.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was proscribed and banned by Pakistani President General Musharraf in 2004.

Hizb ut-Tahrir has been involved in a number of controversies in Australia but has been "clever at knowing how to be outrageous enough to get media attention but not get arrested", according to one observer .

Hizb ut-Tahrir is legal in Britain and that country has become a "logistical nerve centre" of HT, where its leaflets and books are produced for global distribution, although Britain is not a Vilaya or "province" in the HT organization.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was reportedly an associate of Abu Hamza, and is said to have preached to "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, along with Hanif and Sharif, at the North London Mosque in Finsbury Park.

Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain was led by Syrian-born Omar Bakri Muhammad from 1986 to 1996.

Hizb ut-Tahrir is legal in Denmark but ran into controversy in 2002, when it distributed leaflets in Copenhagen that a Danish court determined were racist propaganda.

Also that year, several well known imams in Copenhagen attended a convention of Hizb ut-Tahrir and announced that they were willing to work together towards mutual goals.

In January 2003, Hizb ut-Tahrir was barred from public activity in Germany, German Interior Minister Otto Schily stating that the group was spreading violence and hate and had called for the killing of Jews.

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In October 2012 Hizb ut-Tahrir situated its annual "caliphate conference" in Stockholm.

Hizb ut-Tahrir America, based in Chicago, was reportedly founded by Dr Mohammed Malkawi, who is an adjunct professor at Argosy University-Chicago.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was founded and led by Taqiuddin an-Nabhani from 1953 to 1977.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was succeeded by Shaykh Abdul Qadeem Zallum who led HT until his death in 2003.

Hizb ut-Tahrir was succeeded by Ata Abu Rashta who is currently HT's leader.

Hizb ut-Tahrir describes how violence and the increasing radicalisation of the group eventually lead to him cutting all ties and resigning from the head of the local group at Tower Hamlets University.