MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court has refused to resume hearings in the case of prohibited organizations identified as terrorist groups, a court spokesman said Thursday.
The spokesman said the Supreme Court overturned a plea by the non-governmental organization Memorial because it failed to lodge an appeal in time against the court's ruling identifying 15 organizations as terrorist groups, including Hizb-ut-Tahrir.
Founded in 1996, Hizb-ut-Tahrir seeks to remove all non-Islamic governments and to establish a global caliphate, or united Muslim state.
Last summer, the Russian Federal Security Service issued a list of 15 terrorist organizations whose activities are prohibited in Russia.
The list also includes the Taliban, Al Qaeda, the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, the Congress of People of Ichkeria (the name militants use for Chechnya) and Dagestan, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad and others.
