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Party of Islamic Revival to establish a branch in Uzbekistan and in
the efforts of “Hizb al-tahrir al-islami” (The Party of Islamic Liberation)
to involve our country in the sphere of their activities. One can name
other organisations of this kind. Activists of such organisations have
contributed much to undermining internal political stability and have
caused inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions in society.
In circumstances marked by the radicalisation of religious
consciousness under the influence of purposeful campaigns launched
by certain forces, which have turned in some cases to violent means
and methods of a terrorist nature, the acute need has been felt for the
introduction of a number of practical measures in the legal sphere.
One such measure was the adoption of “the Law on Freedom of
Consciousness and Religious Organisations” in June, 1991. It was
the first legal document of this kind in the modern history of Uzbekistan
and guaranteed real freedom of conscience. Yet the developments in
the field of spiritual religious life in the first half of the 1990s,