Tajik Prosecutor General\'s Office official Abdukodir Mukhammadiyev said that 299 members of the banned Hizb-ut-Tahrir extremist organization have been sentenced in 2000-05. \"Fifteen cases are currently open,\" Mukhammadiyev said. \"Since the beginning of the year, 20 criminal cases on 25 members of the organization have been closed. All of the suspects were sentenced for publicly inciting a change of the country\'s constitution under orders from hostile organizations or representatives of foreign countries to five to 12 years\' imprisonment,\" he said. \"None of these cases have been given back to the Prosecutor General\'s Office for further investigation and none of the suspects have been released due to lack of proof,\" Mukhammadiyev said. (Interfax)