Hizb Ut-Tahrir By Region
The Heritage Foundation in the US reports the organization is active in 40 countries, with 5,000 to 10,000 "hardcore" members and tens of thousands of followers. Shiv Malik in the New Statesmen magazine estimates Hizb ut-Tahrir has about one million members. It is proscribed in Russia, and in some Arab countries. It had a ban lifted on it by the Lahore High Court in Pakistan, and it survived proposed bans in Australia and the UK after clearance from the intelligence services and police.
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