Uzbekistan frees opposition leader

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Uzbekistan frees opposition leader

Monday, November 09, 2009
ALMATY: Uzbek opposition leader Sanjar Umarov has been freed after four years in jail, a pro-opposition website reported on Sunday, in a move that could help the Central Asian state further improve ties with the West.

Ferghana.ru, which is registered outside Uzbekistan to avoid heavy censorship, quoted an unnamed relative of Umarov as saying he was released on Saturday. “He is in a safe place,” the relative was quoted as saying.

Neither the Uzbek government nor the US-based public relations company hired by Umarov’s supporters could be reached for comment.

Following a string of 2003-2005 “colour revolutions” in Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan, businessman Umarov founded the Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition, a movement that called for reforms in the authoritarian state.





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