Still breaking and unconfirmed of yet, but (via: Registan) Reuters is being told that 600 people are protesting in Samarkand. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has picked it up too.

TASHKENT, June 8 (Reuters) – Hundreds of opposition supporters in eastern Uzbekistan held a rally on Wednesday in a rare protest since a bloody crackdown last month in a different part of the country, the opposition party said.

The banned Free Farmers Party told Reuters 600 people were protesting on a farm in the Samarkand region which is home to a local activist who had been arrested by security forces.

There was no official confirmation of the protest and Reuters had no way of immediately checking if the information was accurate.
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“SNB (secret police) agents have arrested our (local) leader Norboi Kholjigitov,” Nigora Khidoyatova, leader of the Free Farmers party, told Reuters.

“We do not know where he is now. To find him — and he is a respected man — people from the whole Ishtikhan district came to the local Bobur state farm. There are some 600 of them there,” she said.

Khidoyatova said Kholjigitov had been arrested on Sunday. She said police had cordoned off the area, which is several hundred kilometres from Andizhan and from the capital, Tashkent.

Police could not be immediately reached for comment. The Samarkand region is Karimov’s birthplace.

More on this as it develops.

MEANWHILE: While we wait to find out what is happening, Nathan reports that the victims of the Andijon massacre are being disappeared from their hospital beds.