A large-scale operation to arrest religious extremists took place in Kyrgyzstan.
Almost four dozen members of the religious extremist organization Hizb al-Tahrir al-Islami (known as terrorism and banned in the Russian Federation) were arrested in Kyrgyzstan, the press service of the republic's State Committee for National Security (GKNB) reported on Monday. A large-scale operation was carried out on the territory of the Republic to arrest members of the religious extremist organization Hizb Ot Tahrir, which is banned in the country.