After graduating in 1987, Bokhodir Choriyev started work at the Kontur IT company in Tomsk as a radio-installation specialist before being called up for military service the same year.
It included such projects as the elimination of state-ordered cotton monoculture, growing grain crops not on the basis of state plans, but for the requirements of the legal entity and other similar new economic decisions based on a market economy.
In 2000, Bokhodir Choriyev fought with local authorities to eliminate state-ordered cotton and grain crop monoculture plans, and as a result, in November 2000, Kesh was the first company in Uzbekistan whom the district governors freed from the state orders for cotton and grain crops.
Kesh then continued business without obeying the state authorities, in the interests of the company and its shareholders working in accordance with existing legislation.
But Shahrisabz's District Governor Shuhrat Allanazarov did not like Bokhodir Choriyev running the company activities based on free market economy.
In May 2000, the Kesh general meeting of the shareholders elected Bokhodir Choriyev chairperson of the board and this decision was quickly annulled by the oblast department of the State Committee on Property.
In September 2000, after the latest General Meeting of Shareholders of Kesh, the authorities initiated a criminal investigation against Bokhodir Choriyev and arrested him on January 2, 2001.
On January 4, 2001, the local authorities hurriedly appointed a new executive chairman of Kesh in Bokhodir Choriev's place.
The group that had subsequently achieved ownership of Kesh started imposing direct pressure on the supporters of Bokhodir Choriyev through M. Asqarov, Head of the Uzbekistan Committee for State Property in their favor for a large bribe.
Bokhodir Choriyev and his supporters demonstrated demanding M. Asqarov's retirement from his position of the Head of The Committee for State Property.
When the court proceedings were almost finalized in favor of the shareholders of the public company, the National Security Services (NSS) stepped in.
In order to earn a living, he used his private car as a taxi, and though it was illegal, together with his wife Feruza Khanum sold newspapers and journals in the streets.
Once he understood the real purpose and sense of Islam Karimov's regime, he realized the difficulty of fighting for human rights under existing laws and conditions in Uzbekistan.
He tried to organize meetings and protest demonstrations, but on May 21, 2004, was severely beaten, had a sack put on his head while his feet and hands tied, and he was kidnapped by NSS.
The government authorities put heavy barriers to the representatives from other oblasts of Uzbekistan to travel to the Congress, held in November 2009.
In order to shut Bokhodir Choriyev down, in 2013 Islam Karimov's regime imprisoned his father, Hasan Choriev, who died two months later of an illness he contracted in prison.
Hasan Choriev's close friend, Imam Omonkhon was forcefully kept in the district NSS offices until after the funeral.