Mr. Puncog, an ethnic Tibetan, said supporters the Dalai Lama had organized the unrest in an effort to generate publicity during the Olympics.
Mr. Nazarbayev, who on Friday announced the formation of a commission to investigate the violence, said the panel would "take all the necessary measures to identify and punish those who organized this unrest".
"From November to December 20, Sannikov and others organized mass unrest, accompanied by pogroms, preparations for arson, the destruction of property, violence against people and armed resistance against representatives of the government," Mr. Zagorovsky said in closing remarks on Friday, the Interfax news agency reported.
Mr. Sannikov, a former deputy foreign minister, was convicted of organizing mass unrest and given a five-year sentence last May.
Several of those candidates have now been released from jail while they await trials on charges of organizing mass unrest.
Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, pushed back, blaming foreign powers for infiltrating Iran and organizing the unrest.
On Monday a Baku court charged four opposition leaders with organizing mass unrest, a crime that carries a maximum sentence of three years.
Mr. Sannikov, a former deputy foreign minister, was convicted of organizing mass unrest and given a five-year sentence last May, during the harshest crackdown of Mr. Lukashenko's rule.
Dmitry Bogatov, a lecturer at the Moscow Finance and Law University, was taken into custody on April 6 and charged with organizing mass unrest, which was later appended with the more serious charge of incitement to terrorist activity.
The petition cites accusations by the government that the unrest was "organized, premeditated and meticulously orchestrated by the Dalai clique," and calls on Beijing to invite the United Nations Human Rights Council to do an independent investigation of these charges.
