Not long ago, I published an article on this blog about Timur Idalov, a Chechen law student who had the bad luck to get into a car accident with the wrong person, and now sits in jail despite the overwhelming clarity of his innocence.

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Recently I came across a letter from his wife in my mailbox, which tells of the gruesome beatings and violence Timur has suffered and continues to suffer at the hands of the state. She writes:

“In relation to Timur they are committing true lawlessness and iniquity.

The fact is that they have beaten him up and thrown him in the dungeon. And they want to hang on him the article assault on an employee of a place of deprivation of liberty. As if though he had assaulted the chief of the SIZO [Investigative isolator, the notorious Soviet pre-trial detention centers described by Solzhenitsyn in his epic Gulag Archipelago and virtually unchanged since then–Trans.].