Press Release
Another Da'wah Carrier Joins the Ranks of Martyrs in Uzbekistan

(مِنَ الْمُؤْمِنِينَ رِجَالٌ صَدَقُوا مَا عَاهَدُوا اللَّهَ عَلَيْهِ فَمِنْهُم مَّن قَضَى نَحْبَهُ وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَنتَظِرُ وَمَا بَدَّلُوا تَبْدِيلًا)

"Among the believers are men who have [always] been true to what they have vowed before Allah; and among them are such as have [already] redeemed their pledge by death, and such as yet await [its fulfillment] without having changed [their resolve] in the least." [TMQ Al-Ahzab: 23]
(Translated)

The regime of Uzbekistan's tyrant, the criminal Jew Karimov, is still obdurate in its imperiousness and in its hostility against Islam and war against Muslims, specifically the Da'wah carriers among them. The martyrdom of our Brother Tulyaganov Abdul Ghafour Abd Almatalovic, may Allah have mercy on him, in his prison cell, is another witness to the crimes of the tyrant Karimov.
Almatalovic was first arrested in the year 2000 at the age of 52 years old, he, may Allah have mercy on him, was born in the year 1948 and lived in Tashkent city. He was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, which he spent in the prison of the city of Kosonsoy. After this period ended, they extended his imprisonment to a period of 3 years that he spent in the prison of the city of Tufaksoy.

After the second period ended, they extended his imprisonment to another 3 years and 10 months, which he spent in Novoy 64 Prison. Following complications in his illness (cirrhosis of the liver), he was transferred to the prison of Tashkent Sanjurod where he spent the final 6 months of his life. Our Brother Abdul Matalovic's soul departed to its Lord (swt) in the month of May, however, the authorities did not hand over his body to his family until 19 July 2015.

Despite all the criminality of the tyrant Karimov and his gang, the arrests, prosecutions, torture and murder have all failed to abort the works of the Da'wah carriers, the members of Hizb ut Tahrir, in Uzbekistan. The criminal Karimov regime has failed to understand that thoughts can only be fought with thoughts, not with killing and oppression. Hizb ut Tahrir, which held onto the ideology of Islam and its rulings since the beginning of its Da'wah in Uzbekistan until today, has proven its intellectual efficiency, and it adheres to this honorable stature not only in Uzbekistan, but in the whole world, following in this the saying of the Messenger (saw):

«سيد الشهداء حمزة ورجل قام إلى إمام جائر فنصحه فقتله»

"The master of the Martyrs is Hamzah, and a man who stood to an oppressor ruler where he ordered him and forbade him and so he (the ruler) killed him".

These pure souls and pure blood will remain a disgraceful stain on the face of Karimov's regime and his gang, and it will remain a living testament that the Muslims prefer to sacrifice even their own souls for their religion over this transient world.

Indeed, the martyr's status to Allah the Lord of the worlds is something envied by the people and the Angels at large, and attaining the pleasure of Allah (swt) is something great for which the enormous sacrifices become easy. We, in the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir, come forward to give our heartfelt condolences to the family of the martyr Tulyaganov Abdul Ghafour Abd Almatalovic and his friends and relatives, we ask our Lord (swt) to bestow on him His wide mercy, and to honor us with His near victory by establishing the second righteous Khilafah "Caliphate" State on the method of the Prophet, the State of justice and mercy to the worlds.

(إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يُحَادُّونَ اللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُ أُوْلَئِكَ فِي الأَذَلِّينَ * كَتَبَ اللَّهُ لَأَغْلِبَنَّ أَنَا وَرُسُلِي إِنَّ اللَّهَ قَوِيٌّ عَزِيزٌ)

"Verily, those who contend against Allah and His Apostle - it is they who [on Judgment Day] shall find themselves among the most abject * [For] Allah has thus ordained: "I shall most certainly prevail, I and My apostles!" Verily, Allah is powerful, almighty!" [TMQ Al-Mujadilah: 20-21]

The Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir