Постановление Европейского суда по правам человека от 23.09.2010 «Дело Искандаров (Iskandarov) против России» [англ.]

14. On 26 November 2004 the Tajik authorities chose placement in custody as a preventive measure to be imposed on the applicant.
15. On 29 November 2004 the applicant was put on an international "wanted" list.
16. On 1 December 2004 the Russian Prosecutor General's Office received a request for the applicant's extradition from the Tajik Prosecutor General's Office.
17. On 9 December 2004 the Russian authorities arrested the applicant on the basis of the request for his extradition.
18. On an unspecified date the applicant was placed in remand prison No. IZ-77/4 in Moscow.
19. On 23 December 2004 the Babushkinskiy District Court of Moscow authorised the applicant's detention pending extradition.
20. On 24 December 2004 the applicant appealed against the firstinstance decision. On an unspecified date the Moscow City Court dismissed the appeal.
21. On 29 December 2004 and 18 January 2005 the applicant requested the Russian Prosecutor General's Office not to extradite him, arguing that the request for his extradition had been filed for purely political reasons.
22. In January 2005 the applicant requested the Department for Migration Affairs of the Moscow Department of the Interior to grant him political asylum.
23. On 1 April 2005 the Russian Prosecutor General's Office dismissed the extradition request by the Tajik authorities for the reason that the applicant had filed an asylum application.
24. On 4 April 2005 the prosecutor's office of the Babushkinskiy District of Moscow ordered the applicant's release from custody.

3. The applicant's abduction and transfer to Tajikistan

25. Upon his release on 4 April 2005 the applicant stayed at his friend's flat in the town of Korolev, in the Moscow Region, awaiting examination of his asylum application.
26. In the evening of 15 April 2005 the applicant and his friend, Mr L., were walking a dog. At some point the applicant saw two persons wearing uniforms of the Russian State Inspectorate for Road Safety ("ГИБДД", "GIBDD"). He assumed that those men intended to arrest him and told his friend to go home. Then the applicant noticed that the area had been surrounded by twenty-five or thirty men with Slavic features wearing civilian clothes.
27. Without identifying themselves or giving any explanations, the two men in GIBDD uniforms, assisted by several men in civilian clothes, handcuffed the applicant. One of the men hit the applicant on the head and placed him in a car; it drove off. After 400 or 500 metres the car stopped; the men in the GIBDD uniforms took the applicant out and placed him in a minivan.
28. They drove for a while. Eventually the minivan stopped and the applicant was taken outside. The surroundings were unknown to him. The applicant was escorted to a sauna and detained there. The guards beat the applicant. He asked for a lawyer, but in vain.
29. On 16 April 2005 the applicant was taken to a forest. The men who had apprehended him met a group of people and conversed with them there. Having listened to them talking, the applicant assumed that the newly arrived people were servicemen of the Russian law-enforcement agencies.
30. At some point the servicemen put a mask on the applicant's face. They did not identify themselves, nor did they give any explanations of their actions. They spoke unaccented Russian.
31. Later they took the applicant with them and escorted him to an airport. The applicant's identity papers were not checked. While boarding the plane, the applicant heard the servicemen talking to a woman who apparently knew them. During the flight the applicant, still blindfolded, heard no instructions or other information usually conveyed in a civil aircraft.
32. On the morning of 17 April 2005 the airc

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