UzLand.Uz
November 29
he chairman of the exiled Erk Party of Uzbekistan, Mohammad Solih, was arrested by Interpol at Prague airport, 28 November, in the morning. Currently he is being kept at an Interpol remand centre in Prague and could be deported to Uzbekistan in the near future.
Mohammad Solih was one of the two presidential candidates in the 1992 elections in Uzbekistan. Later his party was banned in Uzbekistan accused of undermining the consitutional system in Uzbekistan. In recent years he lived in Turkey. The Supreme Court of Uzbekistan tried him in 1999 in absentia with charges of involvement in February 16, 1999 bombings in Tashkent in an attempt to assisnate current President Islam Karimov. Solikh is also believed to have had close contacts with members of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan - one of the wings of bin Laden's al-Qaeda terrorist network.