 Russian authorities have arrested 12 suspected members of the banned Hizbi Tahrir radical Islamic group, Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliyev said on Saturday. "Twelve active Hizbi Tahrir members who are wanted in several countries have been detained in the Russian Federation," he was quoted as saying by the Interfax news agency. He said they had been detained in various locations, notably the mainly Muslim Russian republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, as well as the Moscow region. The minister did not elaborate on the nationalities of the detainees or when the arrests had taken place, but he said joint operations against Hizbi Tahrir were continuing in the Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. |