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[Sanjar Umarov] did not plead guilty under any accusations. According to local and international human rights activists, Sanjar Umarov's case was politically motivated, and the investigation and the trial were conducted with gross violations of legal procedures. International organizations appealed to the Uzbek government several times demanding Umarov's immediate release. In August 2008, Sanjar Umarov's family and friends also posted in the Internet an appeal to the Uzbek government, the EU, the US Department of State and international organizations demanding the immediate release of the prisoner of conscience.

The Uzbek Prosecutor-General's Office has submitted the case of businessman Sanjar Umarov to court. Umarov has been accused of economic crimes, a press-release circulated by the Uzbek Prosecutor- General's Office has said.

He went on to say that the Sunshine Uzbekistan opposition coalition set up by [Sanjar Umarov] had never been officially registered. \"So- called structures like the Sunshine Uzbekistan coalition and the Ozod Dehqonlar party consist of Uzbekistan's former ambassador to the USA, Bobur Malikov, who is on the police wanted list; Nodira and Nigora Hidoyatova and Sanjar Umarov,\" the expert added.

A source in Tashkent has told the Ferghana.ru news agency that Uzbek entrepreneur and opposition member Sanjar Umarov, the leader of My Sunny Uzbekistan coalition who was arrested in Tashkent on 23 October, was given an opportunity to meet his lawyer yesterday [2 November].

He allowed the thought to float. Video cameras in corridors, in quiet places, and where the interviews take place. \"Video cameras, everywhere,\" he said. \"Like in Wal-Mart.\" \"Silence,\" he said slowly. \"Silence. Silence. No radio. No reading. No writing. Nothing. In the window are four rows of bars. You cannot see the sky. Nothing. One day. Two days. Three days. Four days. Five days.\" \"Silence,\" he said. \"Nothing. One day you hear a bird. This is something. You hear a bird.\"

Umarov, a trained physicist, has a long association with Mississippi State University at Starkville. His wife, Indira A. Umarov, and their children live in the exclusive Aintree Farms section of Germantown. The couple have five children, including two pre-teenage daughters who are U.S. citizens.

The opposition figure, Nodira Khidoyatova, was detained by the Uzbek authorities on Monday after she landed in Tashkent, the Uzbek capital, on a passenger flight from Moscow. Since the crackdown, the population in Uzbekistan, already a state with one of the world's worst human rights records, has suffered fresh waves of repression. Witnesses, survivors and relatives of the victims in Andijon have been arrested, Uzbek journalists have been detained or have fled to exile, and opposition figures have been denounced or arrested. In a statement posted on the Internet, Uzbekistan's prosecutor general's office said the charges against Nodira Khidoyatova were connected to those against [Sanjar Umarov] and his brother, Abror, who has fled Uzbekistan.

The Senate in early November passed a resolution demanding that Sanjar [Sanjar Umarov] be afforded all his legal rights. Umarov is the leader of Serkuesh Uzbekistonim (Sunshine Uzbekistan), which has called for market-based economic reforms.

In an e-mail message to The Commercial Appeal, Human Rights Watch spokesman Inara Gulpe-Laganovska in Tashkent said [Sanjar Umarov], 49, chairman of Serkuesh Uzbekistonim (Sunshine Uzbekistan), was given medical and psychiatric examinations on Nov. 7, according to the lawyer, whom she identified only as Mr. Krasilovsky. The message continued: \"On 14 November Krasilovsky attended a questioning of Umarov by investigator R. Yuldashev. They needed to call the ambulance. Umarov's blood pressure was 150/90. Umarov got an injection of magnesium, demirol and analgesic as well as Valium pills.\"