EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
FIRST SECTION
CASE OF SASITA ISRAILOVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA
(Application No. 35079/04)
JUDGMENT <*>
(Strasbourg, 28.X.2010)
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<*> This judgment will become final in the circumstances set out in Article 44 § 2 of the Convention. It may be subject to editorial revision.
In the case of Sasita Israilova and Others v. Russia,
The European Court of Human Rights (First Section), sitting as a Chamber composed of:
Christos Rozakis, President,
Nina {Vajic} <*>,
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Anatoly Kovler,
Elisabeth Steiner,
Khanlar Hajiyev,
Dean Spielmann,
Sverre Erik Jebens, judges,
and {Soren} Nielsen, Section Registrar,
Having deliberated in private on 7 October 2010,
Delivers the following judgment, which was adopted on the last-mentioned date:
PROCEDURE
1. The case originated in an application (No. 35079/04) against the Russian Federation lodged with the Court under Article 34 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ("the Convention") by seven Russian nationals, Ms Sasita Alikhanovna Israilova, Mr Movldi Vakhayevich Yansuyev, Ms Laura Ilyasovna Yansuyeva, Ms Larisa Isayevna Mudarova, Mr Ismail Ilyasovich Abubakarov, Mr Islam Movldiyevich Yansuyev, and Ms Eliza Nozhiyevna Abubakarova, ("the applicants"), on 23 August 2004.
2. The applicants were represented by lawyers of the Stichting Russian Justice Initiative ("SRJI"), an NGO based in the Netherlands with a representative office in Moscow, Russia. The Russian Government ("the Government") were initially represented by Ms V. Milinchuk, former Representative of the Russian Federation at the European Court of Human Rights, and subsequently by their Representative, Mr G. Matyushkin.
3. The applicants alleged, in particular, that their close relatives had disappeared following their unacknowledged detention and that there had been no adequate investigation into the matter. They further complained that they had suffered mental distress on account of these events and that there had been a lack of effective remedies in respect of those violations. They relied on Articles 2, 3, 5 and 13 of the Convention.
4. On 1 September 2005 the President of the First Section decided to grant priority to the application under Rule 41 of the Rules of Court.
5. By a decision of 5 March 2009, the Court declared the application partly admissible.
6. The applicants and the Government each filed further written observations (Rule 59 § 1).
THE FACTS
I. The circumstances of the case
7. The applicants were born in 1960, 1949, 2002, 1982, 2001, 1995 and 1982 respectively and live in Grozny, the Chechen Republic.
8. The first two applicants are the parents of Mr Ilyas Movldiyevich Yansuyev, born in 1978, Mr Isa Movldiyevich Yansuyev, born in 1980, and the sixth applicant. Ilyas Yansuyev was married to the seventh applicant; they are the parents of the third and fifth applicants. Isa Yansuyev was married to the fourth applicant.
A. The facts
1. Events of 13 February 2003
(a) The applicants' account of events
9. It was the seventh applicant who witnessed the events of 13 February 2003, and the account below is based on her submissions.
10. In the early morning of 13 February 2003 Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev, their families and a friend, Mr D., slept in Ilya
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