Press Release
The Insistence on Trying the Members of Hizb ut Tahrir in El Obeid Under Article 69 of the Sudanese Penal Code is an Insistence on Preventing the Call to Islam
(Translated)

Despite the acquittal of the members of Hizb ut Tahrir being tried in El Obeid, the capital of North Kordofan State, who were initially charged under Articles 63, 67, 69, and 126 of the Sudanese Penal Code, the judge insisted on continuing the trial under Article 69 after dropping the other charges in the session held on Sunday,1/3/2026. He then scheduled a session for Monday, 30/3/2026, to continue the trial. Article 69 was the first article under which charges were filed against the members on 27/1/2026. As a reminder, the article states: “Whoever disturbs the public peace, or commits an act intended to, or likely to, disturb the public peace or public tranquility, and this occurs in a public place, shall be punished by imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month, or by a fine, or by flogging not exceeding twenty lashes.” This article, which even the youngest law student knows is a drawn sword and a tool of repression used by the government against those it imagines to be its adversaries!

We in Hizb ut Tahrir / Wilayah of Sudan issued a press release at the time entitled: “Has the Call to Islam and its Implementation become a Disruption of Public Peace and Tranquility?!” We reiterate the question: Has calling to Islam and implementing its rule under its Khilafah Rashidah (Rightly-Guided Caliphate) on the Method of the Prophethood, truly become a crime and a disruption of public peace and tranquility?!

The members of Hizb ut Tahrir, whom the government and its security, judicial, and legal apparatuses insist on prosecuting, are simply fulfilling a great obligation: calling to Islam and implementing its rule. And Allah (swt) says:

[وَمَنْ أَحْسَنُ قَوْلاً مِمَّنْ دَعَا إِلَى اللهِ وَعَمِلَ صَالِحاً وَقَالَ إِنَّنِي مِنَ الْمُسْلِمِينَ]

“And whose words are better than someone who calls ˹others˺ to Allah, does good, and says, “I am truly one of those who submit” [Fussilat: 33]. Did Allah (swt) not say:

[وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْر وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَأُولَئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ]

“Let there be a group among you who call ˹others˺ to goodness, encourage what is good, and forbid what is evil—it is they who will be successful” [Aal-i-Imran: 104].

This oppressive regime, subservient to the kafir, colonial West, obeying its commands and prohibitions, obstructing the call to Allah and to the implementation of His Book and the Sunnah of His Prophet (saw), and complicit in the plot to separate Darfur, is unworthy of ruling the best Ummah brought forth for mankind. O Muslims of Sudan, are you content to see those who call to your creed and the implementation of the Shariah of your Lord criminalized, and then remain idle?! What the members of Hizb ut Tahrir, who are being tried, did is your duty and an obligation upon you. So, restrain the oppressors and work with those striving to establish the Islamic system and its Khilafah Rashidah, on the method of the Prophethood, so that you may be among the victorious on the Day of Judgment, and before that, live the life of dignity that the early Muslims lived, those who carried this Deen and implemented it.

[يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اسْتَجِيبُوا للهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمْ لِمَا يُحْيِيكُمْ]

“O believers! Respond to Allah and His Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life” [Al-Anfal: 24]

Ibrahim Othman (Abu Khalil)
Official Spokesman of Hizb ut Tahrir in Wilayah Sudan