Tajik security forces have arrested a man alleged to have led an extremist religious movement in northern Tajikistan. Tajik officials said that Hodi Fattoyev, former senior imam at a mosque, headed the Bay\'at movement, an extremist group that allegedly engaged in arson and murder. An Interior Ministry source said that Bay\'at was headquartered in the town of Chorkuh in the Isfara District of Tajikistan\'s northern Sughd Oblast. The source claimed the group was responsible for \"arson attacks on mosques, the beating of people of other religions, and the murder of the local Baptist leader, Sergei Besarab.\" Twelve members of the group are currently under arrest. (RIA-Novosti)