article_snippet.sent: Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) has reportedly attacked civil activists in Aleppo alongside local al-Qaeda franchise Nusra Front, the Times has revealed.
article_snippet.sent: One week ago, around 100 HT members, one armed with a sword, attacked activists in eastern Aleppo during an anti-regime demonstration, the Timesreports.
article_snippet.sent: A photograph from the demonstration seen by the newspaper allegedly shows 'HT members confronting activists, while balaclava-wearing fighters from the Nusra Front stand guard'.
article_snippet.sent: A spokesperson for Hizb ut-Tahrir in the UK denied any involvement with the Nusra Front and al-Qaeda in Syria.
article_snippet.sent: Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic for Party of Liberation) is an international Muslim organisation which, like ISIS, advocates a single Islamic state, or caliphate, in the Middle East under Islamic law.
article_snippet.sent: Hizb ut-Tahrir (Arabic for Party of Liberation) is banned in many the Middle East countries and also in Russia, Turkey, Pakistan and Germany but not in Australia, the US or UK.
article_snippet.sent: Waheed Ahmed, 21, the son of a Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed who was arrested last week trying to cross into Syria, is said to be a member of Hizb ut-Tahrir .
article_snippet.sent: Waheed Ahmed, 21 – the son of Rochdale Labour councillor Shakil Ahmed who was arrested in Turkey last month trying to cross into Syria with eight other Brits - is said to be a member after being recruited as a student at Manchester University.