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Sanjar has been released and is finally returning to his family. This fight took everything I had but seeing him free makes the long nights worth it. We need to stay watchful to ensure he receives the medical care he requires after years of such cruelty.

November 7, 2008

Release Uzbek Prisoner of Conscience Sanjar Umarov

Release Uzbek Prisoner of Conscience Sanjar Umarov

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Started by Anonymous 17 years, 11 months ago
Dr. Sanjar G. Umarov, a resident of Germantown, Tennessee, is a distinguished physicist, successful entrepreneur, and internationally recognized Prisoner of Conscience currently held in the Central-Asian country of Uzbekistan. Dr. Umarov founded the Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition, an association of civil groups and intellectuals, and sought to open a dialogue with the Government of Uzbekistan about economic reforms that could dramatically improve the quality of life of Uzbek citizens. Advocating free trade and private ownership of the agricultural industry, Sunshine Uzbekistan Coalition emerged in March 2005 as a pro-democracy organization advocating economic reforms. The current Uzbek regime responded in October 2005 by arresting, imprisoning, and torturing Dr. Sanjar Umarov. Today he remains in an Uzbek prison. Recently, the U.S. representative to the Economic and Social Council of the U.N., U.S. Ambassador T. Vance McMahan, called the charges against Dr. Umarov \"unfounded\". Vitaly Krasilowsky, Dr. Umarov\'s lawyer, found Dr. Umarov naked and incoherent on the floor of his cell, substantiating the first of many to witness the grave injustices he suffers daily. Dr. Umarov has consistently endured numerous forms of torture, including 13 consecutive months in an unbearably small solitary cell and 16 consecutive months without being able to communicate with his lawyers or his family. Dr. Sanjar Umarov\'s life is under immediate threat and he is in desperate need of medical attention. Dr. Umarov\'s wife, Dr. Indira Niyazov Umarov, and her five children plead for your thoughts and prayers regarding their \"Papa\"

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Reached 500 supporters

October 1, 2008

September 10, 2008

Reaching this point has been an exhausting uphill climb but seeing this level of attention gives me the resolve to keep going. It is clear now that people are finally beginning to see the cruelty of this situation for what it actually is.

Reached 100 supporters

September 1, 2008

6 Comments

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Tom Pearson
17 years ago Featured

Corruption at its finest. They are terrified of one man with good ideas. Total shame.

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Sarah Ferguson
17 years ago Featured

This is completely heartbreaking. Praying for his safe return to his family soon.

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Mike Sloan
17 years ago Featured

FREE SANJAR UMAROV NOW. JUSTICE FOR THE INNOCENT!!

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David Harris
17 years ago Featured

Dr. Umarov deserves basic human rights. The treatment he has been through is just barbaric.

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Linda Bello
17 years ago Featured

My heart breaks for his family. Nobody deserves to suffer in a cell for wanting to help their country. Please release him.

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Elena Delgado
17 years ago Featured

How can people be treated like this in 2016? It is sick. Let the man go home.

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