Постановление Европейского суда по правам человека от 15.07.2010 <Дело Гелаевы (Gelayevy) против России» [англ.]

ile No. 39/01 in connection with the disappearance of Murad Gelayev.
29. In November 2001 the first applicant spoke with the deputy Chairman of the Representative of the Russian President in the Southern Federal Circuit, Mr V.B., and the latter informed him that his son was alive and detained somewhere in Central Russia.
30. On 15 June 2001 the Chechnya Ministry of the Interior (the Chechnya MVD) forwarded the fifth applicant's complaint about his grandson's abduction to the Oktyabrskiy VOVD for examination.
31. On 29 March 2002 the Department of Lawfulness, Law and Order of the Chechnya Administration requested that detention centre IZ-61/1 in Rostov-on-Don inform them whether Murad Gelayev, who had been taken away from his home by a group of federal servicemen, was listed among their detainees. In April 2002 the detention centre replied in the negative.
32. On 3 April 2002 the first applicant complained to the Chechnya prosecutor about his son's abduction. He stated that Murad Gelayev had been abducted with thirteen other residents of Gikalo during a special operation conducted by a group of federal servicemen in military armoured vehicles; that the servicemen had beaten the detainees and their relatives with rifle-butts; that shortly after the abduction the applicant had found out that his son had been detained in the basement of the Oktyabrskiy VOVD where, in the presence of many witnesses, one ear had been cut off as a souvenir from both Murad Gelayev and Mr Sul.S.; that the men had subsequently been thrown into different pits and beaten in the presence of the head of the Oktyabrskiy VOVD, Major R.E.; that, according to eyewitnesses, on 8 - 9 May 2000 Murad Gelayev had still been detained in the basement and that in June or July 2000 he had been taken to the Chernokozovo detention centre. The applicant requested the authorities to assist him in the search for his son and to prosecute the perpetrators.
33. On 4 April 2002 the Grozny prosecutor's office forwarded the first applicant's complaint about his son's abduction to the Oktyabrskiy VOVD for examination.
34. On 11 April 2002 the Chechnya prosecutor's office forwarded the first applicant's complaint about his son's abduction by federal servicemen during a special operation on 27 February 2000 to the Grozny prosecutor's office for examination.
35. On 12 July 2002 an investigator from the Gikalo department of the Grozny ROVD questioned the first applicant, who stated that on 27 February 2000 a group of Russian military servicemen had arrested fourteen residents of Gikalo, including Murad Gelayev. According to the witness, Murad Gelayev had been taken to the Oktyabrskiy VOVD, where his ear had been cut off as a souvenir and he had been beaten in the presence of the head of the Oktyabrskiy VOVD, officer R.E; that in July 2000 Murad Gelayev had been taken to the Chernokozovo detention centre and that the applicant had visited a number of detention centres in Chechnya but could not find his son.
36. On 16 August 2002 the Prosecutor General's office in the Southern Federal Circuit forwarded the first applicant's complaint about the abduction to the Chechnya prosecutor's office. On 4 September 2002 the latter forwarded this complaint to the Grozny prosecutor's office for examination.
37. On 13 July 2005 the Grozny district prosecutor's office (the district prosecutor's office) instituted an investigation into the abduction of Murad Gelayev under Article 105 § 1 of the Criminal Code (murder). The case file was given number 44065. The decision stated, inter alia, as follows:
"...on 27 February 2000 a group of unidentified armed men in camouflage uniforms in APCs and a UAZ vehicle took Murad Gelayev away to Grozny; after that he disappeared...
In this connection, on 28 August 2001 the Grozny R

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