One More Death in Detention

Moldy Lomalievich Kaimov, b. 1976, was diagnosed with tuberculosis and began treatment for it in 2005. In 2006 he was arrested in the Achkoy-Martan district of Chechnya, on suspicion of involvement with illegal armed groups. Moldy claimed he was tortured into writing a false confession by the Achkoy-Martan and Staropromyslovsky district [Waynakh Online: puppet] police departments. Although the evidences of torture were confirmed and registered by a medical expert, Kaimov was convicted.

During his two years of detention in Chechnya, his tuberculosis was left untreated. In 2008, Kaimov began to cough blood and was diagnosed with infection of the upper lung complicated by hemoptysis. On October 28th, 2008 the [so-called] Supreme Court of the [puppet regime in] Chechnya reached a verdict and Kaimov was convictedtwice under articles 222, 217, and 223 of the Criminal Codex of the Russian Federation and received the combined sentences of 6 years and 6 month in a strict regime punishment camp.

In January of 2009 he was transfered to the Nizhnekamsk Tatarstan Republic where, according to his relatives, Kaimov was kept in a facility resembling a hospital, where he remained in stable condition. In May he was visited there by his mother , Damani Kaimova, who lost touch with him shortly after the visit. In December 2009, while looking to get back in contact with him, Damani established through the ICRC (International Committee of the Red Cross) that her son had been transfered to a prison in Kazan city. A little later in December Moldy called his mother.