Detained Kazakh students in Boston transferred to same cell

    Imprisoned in the United States, Dias Kadyrbaev and Azamat Tazhayakov have been transferred into the same cell after months of solitary confinement, Tengrinews reports. They also now have a chair and a desk. Otherwise their conditions have not changed.
    The transfer is a relief for their families, who had feared for the mental state of the young men when they were in solitary. Azamat’s father Amir Ismagulov had commented he considered solitary confinement the equivalent of torture.
    The lawyers of the young men repeatedly filed inquiries requesting mitigation, asking to permit the young Kazakhs to go to a gym and take a walk.
    As Tengrinews had reported earlier, each was housed in Middletown prison in a 3x2 meter cell with nothing but a bed - an hour drive from Boston. “The day starts at 6 am, then breakfast is at 6:30 a.m., later lunch at 10 a.m. and dinner at 4 p.m,” Kadyrbayev said.
    Azamat and Dias have an hour a day or less for phone calls. Before the transfer, the young men did no see each other, except when they were brought to court.
    The first hearing was on August 13 in 2013.
    The next hearing is to take place on January 15, 2014, Tengrinews.kz wrote.