Bishkek, Dec 19 || Kyrgyzstan has detained 22 active members of the religious extremist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir in an operation, the press service of the country's State Committee for National Security reported on Thursday.
The joint operation of the State Committee for National Security and the Ministry of Internal Affairs was launched in the city of Jalal-Abad in southern Kyrgyzstan, according to the report.
"A stable religious extremist group has been promoting destructive ideology among the population of Jalal-Abad for several years, recruiting new adherents, creating fake accounts on the Internet, and using an underground printing house to replicate and distribute extremist materials in Kyrgyzstan," the report said.
A large amount of extremist literature, computer and copying equipment used to produce leaflets and other materials were seized, it added, news agency reported.
Earlier this year, the Kyrgyz security agencies had detained six members of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organisation in southern Kyrgyzstan.