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	Brutality, poverty fuel unrest in Uzbekistan -DAWN - International; May 17, 2005
		The government claimed that Akramiya was an extremist group with ties to Hizb-ut Tahrir.
		Yet others have claimed that Akramiya is a splinter group from Hizb-ut Tahrir which tried to stop young people from joining the latter organisation.
		Akramiya suggests that economic success and prosperity is the key to an Islamic way of life, and that part of business profits should be diverted to help the poor.
	www.dawn.com /2005/05/17/int12.htm (771 words)

	The American Spectator
		The question is whether Akramiya is a terrorist group, a persecuted religious sect or, indeed, if it exists at all.
		Akramiya was founded in 1996 by Akram Yuldoshev, a 29-year-old math teacher from Andijon, site of much of last week's violence.
		Regardless, the Akramiya Islamic Group, being outside the official state-sponsored Islamic religion, remains banned, and anyone associated with the group faces arrest.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=8179 (1054 words)

	Akramiya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Akramiya is an Islamist militant group in Uzbekistan, Central Asia, banned under the current Uzbek government.
		Akramiya is a splinter group of the outlawed Hizb ut-Tahrir political movement (which advocates non-violent Islamic revival in the region).
		It is reported that leaflets distributed by Akramiya condone and encourage suicide bombers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Akramiya (139 words)

	.:. AltınMiras .:. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Akramiya extremist groups, consisting of Uzbek and Kyrgyz immigrants, also operated in the Russian towns of Ivanovo and Omsk, Anvar Nabiyev said.
		Followers of the Akramiya religious extremist movement, who were involved in the May events in Andijon, have said that their clumsy actions led to the death of their brothers-in-arms and hostages during the disturbances.
		Ortiqov was one of 23 Akramiya members who were released from prison on the night of 12-13 May. He confirmed that all other prisoners were also released during that night.
	www.altinmiras.com /Icerik_Detay.ASP?Icerik=178 (3100 words)

	Guardian \| Karimov picked the wrong scapegoats
		The 23 local men in Andijan whose trial and subsequent jail break sparked the killing spree were accused of membership of a banned Islamic organisation, Akramiya, allegedly dedicated to overthrowing the state.
		Akramiya was described by Mr Karimov as a "faction of Hizb ut-Tahrir", a fundamentalist group.
		Akramiya was reputedly founded by an Andijan maths teacher, Akram Yuldashev, after whom it is named.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5195128-114659,00.html (656 words)

	News: Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan: A Valley runs with blood
		They assert that Akramiya is an extremist organization and has been trying to increase its influence in local business and society.
		A report by TOL from Pakistan in March indicated that the IMU was increasingly isolated in remote corners of Waziristan, a mountainous region of Pakistan.
		Instead, Karimov has sought to link Akramiya, the obscure group to which the local businessmen allegedly belonged, to Hizb ut-Tahrir, a movement that seeks to create a single Islamic state through peaceful means.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6CGEYX?OpenDocument (2339 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Uzbek scholar says Andijan group threat to state
		It was anger at the trial of 23 men accused of belonging to the group, Akrimaya, which prompted a series of demonstrations in the city, and the bloody events of the day began when some of the accused managed to break out of the local jail.
		Bobojanov said on 2 May that the Akramiya leader personally corroborated that he had written an essay in March 2005 - about a month and a half before Andijan - in which he stated that Akramiya was in the process of "waging a jihad against oppressors and infidels".
		A scene from the unrest in Andijan (epa)Bobojanov believes that Akramiya's advocacy of a jihad turned into a concrete plan for an uprising, contending that "a certain example for Akramiya were events in neighboring Kyrgyzstan", where President Askar Akaev was ousted by a national uprising.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details_print.cfm?id=15770 (790 words)

	Registan.net » Forum 18 on Akramiya
		Akramiya seems to be best understood as a form of Islamic socialism that teaches that certain elements of traditional Islam (praying five times a day and fasting during Ramadan for example) are not important.
		Regardless, the adherents involved in the violence were grade-a thugs who abused their hostages and used them as human shields (they were the first to die in the violence).
		I specifically remember reading an interview with two of the 23 escaped defendants on RFE/RL where they both catagorically denied being members of Akramiya and claimed that the whole thing was a setup in order to take their businesses away from them.
	www.registan.net /?p=5558 (1069 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| Analysis: Uzbekistan's 'Islamists'
		Others state that Akramiya is a splinter group from Hezb-e Tahrir (Party of Liberation), a trans-national Islamic group that seeks to re-establish the Caliphate in Central Asia, though by peaceful means.
		The appeal further stated that the "defendants and their friends do not deny that they were and still are Muslims, and that they have rendered assistance to people, as prescribed by the Koran".
		Those on trial may share the views of Akramiya's founder Akramjon Yoldoshev, but his book's main aim, they say, is to prevent the young from joining organisations such as Hezb-e Tahrir.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/4548371.stm (755 words)

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		The Andijon refugees living in [Kyrgyz town of] Osh are saying that on the eve of the first anniversary of the events, Akram Yoldoshev, who was accused of managing Akramiya, had allegedly sent a letter from the prison to his supporters.
		In his message Yoldoshev wrote that the government's attitude towards Akramiya members, accused of masterminding the Andijon events on 13 May was "good", and that nowadays the government is even studying the methods of working effectively with Andijon businessmen.
		He added that the refugees must return to Uzbekistan because during negotiations with the leaders of Akramiya Karimov personally guaranteed that no pressure would be put on the Andijon people.
	www.ushmm.org /newsfeed/refugee/viewstory.php?storyid=8636 (737 words)

	The Andijan Uprising, Akramiya and Akram Yuldashev - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
		The 69 minute film, which includes a lot of overlapping footage because it was recorded by two separate cameras, has obviously been substantially edited, beginning and ending abruptly, and is obviously designed to portray the demonstration in the worst possible light.
		Many of those featured in the film were blunt in their call for a change in government, but this provides very little evidence as to the goal of the majority of those gathered in the square.
		Akramiya (also known as Iymonchilar and Khalifatchilar), founded in 1996 in Andijan, is an Islamist group, banned under the current Uzbek government.
	www.carnegieendowment.org /publications/index.cfm?fa=view&id=18453&prog=zru (2574 words)

	ANDIJAN LEADER THREATENS "CAMPAIGN OF TERROR" AGAINST KARIMOV REGIME - Eurasia Daily Monitor
		The Western press often mistakenly reports that Akramiya is a faction of the radical Islamic group Hizb-ut-Tahrir, which aims at unifying the Muslims of the world into a single Caliphate (Fergana.ru, May 10).
		For example, in an article posted at Eurasianet.org, Alisher Khamidov maintains that the leader of Akramiya, Akram Yuldashev, asserted in his pamphlet "Iymonga iyul" (The path to the faith) that the non-violent methods embraced by Hizb-ut-Tahrir were developed for use in Arab states and are irrelevant for the conditions of Central Asia.
		Regardless of whether Akramiya was a terrorist organization in the past, Parpiyev's statements indicates that the organization is ready to become one today.
	jamestown.org /edm/article.php?article_id=2370123 (774 words)

	RUSNET :: Uzbeks accuse foreign media of coup attempt as Andijan \'show trial\' opens
		Mr Nabiev said Akramiya was linked to fundamentalists Hizb ut-Tahrir and to the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, which the US fllisted for its links to al-Qaida.
		He said $200,000 had been sent from Akramiya cells in the Russian towns of Omsk and Ivanovo to fund the operation.
		A reporter for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, Galina Bukharbayeva, was also frequently criticised for similar comments made on CNN and in her reports.
	www.rusnet.nl /news/2005/09/21/print/currentaffairs02.shtml (685 words)

	The Future of Islamic Radicalism and Religious Freedom in Central Asia
		To demonstrate the trends in the region, Rotar noted that 10 years ago in southern Kyrgyzstan, there were very few women who wore the hijab; today, approximately 30 percent of women wear the hijab.
		Akramiya, on the other hand, pursues a form of "Islamic socialism," based upon Akram Yuldashev's 1992 work, "Iymonga yu'l" ("A Path to Faith").
		Akramiya was not considered a terrorist organization until 2005, when it became involved in the Andijan uprising.
	politicom.moldova.org /stiri/eng/23730 (1063 words)

	RFE/RL: What really happened on bloody Friday? \| The Tharwa project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Sharipjon Shakirov, who had served a four-year prison term for involvement in what the government describes as the Akramiya Islamist group (see below), was one of the men who occupied the regional-administrative building in Andijon.
		Akram Yuldoshev, whose name serves to denote the "Akramiya" group, is currently serving a 17-year prison sentence on terrorism charges.
		The armed men who began the violence in Andijon on the night of 12 May were apparently their supporters.
	www.tharwaproject.com /node/2320 (1526 words)

	UZBEKISTAN Uzbeks count their dead after clashes with police - Asia News
		The trial of the 23 stems from accusations that they are members of the extremist Islamic group Akramiya and that they have engaged in "anti-constitutional activities".
		Akramiya is linked to Izb Ut Tahrir, the Islamic Liberation Party, a Sunni fundamentalist Party founded in Saudi Arabia in 1953 that calls for the strict application of the Sharia and the creation of pan-Islamic state stretching across Central Asia.
		The accused claim they have been targeted for economic and political reasons, that there is no evidence about their involvement in illegal activities and that their confessions were extracted under torture.
	www.asianews.it /index.php?l=en&art=3296 (694 words)

	News
		The trial of a group of people accused of committing terrorist acts in the town of Andijon in May 2005 is continuing at the Uzbek Supreme Court.
		A member of the Akramiya group Odiljon Usmonov, has been arrested on charges of involvement in the terrorist acts in Andijon.
		In their ongoing information attacks against Uzbekistan, some foreign media agencies have reported that the current trial is allegedly a scripted show trial.
	www.uzbekistan.de /en/2005/e_n1024p3.htm (760 words)

	Radical Islamic activity in Uzbekistan
		These events, in addition to the growing public unrest, raised the Uzbek leadership’s concern over the reenactment of a scenario similar to the “Yellow Revolution” that occurred in Kyrgyzstan in the spring of 2005.
		However, the extent of the involv ement of Akramiya activists in those events and in the violent activities in general is not fully clear to us.
		He noted that President Karimov had accused, on several occasions, the Liberation Party of terrorist activity as a means to enlist the support of the Western world and the entire international community for his activity against the Liberation Party in his country.
	www.intelligence.org.il /eng/sib/6_05/uzbek.htm (4240 words)

	News: Ferghana Valley, Uzbekistan: Bloody Friday in the Ferghana Valley
		Forum 18, a Norway-based organization that covers issues of religious freedom, reported in February, when the trial began, that the men denied any extremist involvement and insisted that they had merely tried to integrate Islamic ethical principles into their business practices.
		But Yuldoshev fell afoul of the Uzbek authorities in the 1990s, and in 1999 he was sentenced to 17 years in prison for involvement in a series of bombings in Tashkent in February 1999, Forum 18 reported.
		For their part, the businessmen on trial have said that they were influenced by Yuldoshev's thoughts on Islamic ethics, but denied the existence of a group called Akramiya, terming it a fabrication of overzealous prosecutors.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/VBOL-6CGERP?OpenDocument (1275 words)

	Uzbekistan: Wife Of Alleged Akramiya Founder Left To Wonder Over Husband's Fate - RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Tashkent claims Akramiya members have been behind a number of terrorist attacks in Uzbekistan and provoked the bloody government crackdown in mid-May. Yuldoshev himself has been in prison since 1999, serving a 17-year sentence on terrorism charges.
		The Uzbek government has alleged that Akramiya, by contrast, has the same goal but is willing to use terror to achieve its ends.
		Demonstrators were protesting the trial of 23 businessmen accused of belonging to Akramiya.
	www.rferl.org /featuresarticle/2005/07/113a2a31-2a7d-411b-8384-f043f982a4a6.html (1149 words)

	Uzbekistan: a new wave of serious persecution may be just begining
		Around one-fifth of the profits of those businesses go into a fund for Akramiya, which is committed (like Hizb ut-Tahrir) to the overthrow of the secular government and the enactment of Sharia law and Islamic rule through the re-establishment of the Caliphate.
		According to reports from the region, Akramiya organized the uprising in a carefully planned way: the accused businessmen promised to pay their staff a full day's salary if they attended the protests.
		Negotiations between the government and the militants broke down, in part because the release of Akram Yuldashev [founder of Akramiya, in prison for involvement in terrorist bombings in 1999] was the main demand of the insurgents.
	www.assistnews.net /Stories/2007/s07030152.htm (2532 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The men at the centre of the protest were arrested in June 2004 and charged with undermining the constitutional order of Uzbekistan, organising and participating in a criminal organisation, and preparing to distribute documents that threaten public safety.
		They are accused of being members of Akramiya, a group said by the Uzbek government to be an offshoot of the radical Islamic movement Hizb ut-Tahrir.
		The founder of Akramiya, Akram Yuldoshev, left Hizb ut-Tahrir over doctrinal disagreements and went on to publish pamphlets dealing with ethical issues.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/centralasia051705.html (1644 words)

	Neo-Stalinism in Uzbekistan
		The trial of the Andijan businessmen and the brutality used to crush the local protests sum up the essence of the Uzbek regime, ruled over by President Islam Karimov: the use of the supposed threat of “Islamic militancy” as a pretext to suppress ruthlessly all forms of real or perceived opposition.
		At the businessmen’s trial the (government-sponsored) prosecution claimed that “Akramiya” was an anti-constitutional extremist organisation which wanted to impose Sharia law and establish an Islamic state covering the whole of Central Asia.
		The arrest of the Andijan businessmen, the torture they suffered during their year-long pre-trial detention, the trumped-up nature of the charges against them, and the murderous brutality used to drive their supporters off the streets are all typical of the systemic and ruthless nature of the repression used by Karimov.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/4233/print (1629 words)

	ISN Security Watch - Uzbek institutionalized brutality and corruption
		By most accounts, Akramiya can be described as a flash in the pan.
		It was founded in 1996 by Akram Yuldashev after he split with the better known Hizb-ut-Tahrir, arguing that rather than focusing on establishing a region-wide caliphate, the group needed to focus on power at the local level in order to end corruption and provide better public services.
		As the trial was drawing to a close on 10 May, some 4,000 family members, employees, friends, and clansmen of the 23 gathered to protest and hold a vigil.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=11296 (2804 words)

	Video of Ill-Fated Uzbek Rising Offers Haunting, Complex View - New York Times
		The businessmen were members of Akramiya, an Islamic organization based on the teachings of Akram Yuldashev, a jailed math and physics teacher whose writings and movement have been described by the group's adherents as a guide to spirituality and self-improvement.
		The accused men's families say the group is a charitable and religious organization, and the businessmen pious men who had taken such steps as instituting a minimum wage in their factories higher than required by Uzbek law.
		Uzbekistan labeled Akramiya a criminal and extremist group, and an offshoot of Hizb ut-Tahrir, or Party of Liberation, an underground movement that seeks to establish Islamic law over regions it regards as the Islamic world.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/06/22/world/asia/22andijon_web.html?ex=1308628800&en=d7ba4c47e96215da&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=all (3669 words)

	Documenting Andijan - Council on Foreign Relations
		The goal of the group, not unlike that of al-Qaeda, is to unite Muslims by creating a region-wide caliphate that would adhere to a strict Islamic way of life.
		A splinter group of Hizb-ut-Tehrir based on the teachings of Akram Yuldashev, Akramiya is behind the prison break-in that sparked the May 2005 uprising at Andijan.
		The arrest of twenty-three Uzbek businessmen, most of them factory and shop owners who also were members of Akramiya, prompted protests in Andijan and a subsequent siege of the prison.
	www.cfr.org /publication/10984 (2002 words)

	Registan.net » Akramiya’s Turn to Terrorism
		If past descriptions of Akramiya were correct, adherents’ involvement in violence began with Andijon.
		But then again, because “membership” in Akramiya has never appeared to involve much more than having an affinity for a set of ideas, Parpiyev might not be leader of many, let alone the one who calls the shots for Akramiya.
		The perpetrators of the armed uprising were friends/family of the alleged Akramiya members in prison.
	www.registan.net /?p=5820 (684 words)

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