After he was warned by Laziz Kayumov, the main ideologist of the Republic and Chief Editor of the newspaper “Sovet Uzbekistoni”, about the “Baneful influence of the West in poetry”, the first period of his destiny was to be rejected by socialist society.

Salih's early creative activity characterized by the concord of western avant-gardism (especially surrealism) with the complicative Sufi philosophy (especially the school of Djalal ad-Din Rumi) and metaphorics linked to its mystical foundation.

The Manifest was aimed against the policy of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Uzbekistan towards national literature, language and history.

", Subsequently, Salih published several articles condemning the government's demographic and environmental policies in Uzbekistan.

In June 1990 on Erk Party initiative Uzbek Supreme Council adopted the Declaration of Sovereignty of Uzbekistan.

On June 2, 1992 in response to increasing government repression, Salih resigned from his position as the deputy of Oliy Majlis, (Uzbek parliament).

In 2009, on the initiative of Salih, a coalition of opposition forces was established in Uzbekistan, consisting of the “Erk” (Freedom) Party, the organization "Andijan: Justice and Revival" and "Tayanch" (Reliance).

[5] Salih was elected Chairman of the Board of Founders of PMU with the majority vote of the delegates of the organization.

The Czech police and Interpol arrested Salih at Ruzyně Airport[10] due to international arrest warrant issued by the Uzbekistan Interpol bureau alleging Salih's participation in terrorist activities[11] connected to bombings that killed 16 people in the capital, Tashkent, in 1999.

[13] Jean-Claude Concolato, the Prague representative of the United Nations high commissioner for refugees, said that under the 1951 Geneva Convention, Mr. Salikh could not be deported if he was likely to face torture or imprisonment for his beliefs.

[12] The Czech interior minister, Stanislav Gross, said the police had no choice but to act on the international arrest warrant.

[12] Salih was released from remand custody on December 11, 2001, under the condition that he stay in the country until the extradition proceedings are finished.

[15] Salih commented that, at least, the arrest won him a meeting with the Czech president, Václav Havel, who had been himself jailed for 5 years during communist era, and therefore brought fresh attention to the beleaguered cause of campaigning for democracy in one of the authoritarian states of Central Asia.