CHELYABINSK, August 1 - RAPSI. Five active members of a regional division of prohibited terrorist organization Hizb ut-Tahrir were arrested in Chelyabinsk, the Federal Security Service's (FSB) regional department reported on Wednesday, not specifying the detention date.

According to the Federal Security Service (FSB), Hizb ut-Tahrir was declared an international terrorist organization by the Supreme Court's on February 14, 2003 and thus its activity in Russia was forbidden.

Hizb ut-Tahrir supporters in Chelyabinsk created a network of secret branches of the organization.

"These supporters of a radical ideology, which contravenes the rules of official Muslim communities, recruited new members in the organization and brainwashed them into organizing anti-constitutional activity to create conditions for the take-over and change of Russia's constitutional system by including part of its territory in the Great Caliphate," the report reads.

All five detained individuals were charged under the article on the seizure of power; which stipulates up to a 20 year imprisonment sentence. The court has put the detained under a two-month arrest.