s Yansuyev's flat No. 110 at 24 Ioanisiani Street, Grozny.
11. At about 4 or 5 a.m. around fifteen armed men wearing camouflage uniforms broke the entrance door of Ilyas Yansuyev's flat and entered; some of them were masked. Although the armed men did not introduce themselves, the Yansuyevs concluded that they belonged to the Russian military because they spoke Russian without an accent.
12. The servicemen hit the seventh applicant on the head with an automatic rifle butt, tied her arms behind her back and put adhesive tape over her mouth. Then they put her on the floor and covered her body with a blanket. One of them sat on the seventh applicant's back so that she could not move for about an hour. The eight-month-old third applicant slept in her bed; the servicemen put a pillow on her face.
13. Meanwhile the servicemen searched the flat without producing any warrant but did not seize anything. They also beat Ilyas Yansuyev with automatic rifle butts. Then they forced Mr D., Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev out into the street and took them away. A few minutes later neighbours came and untied the seventh applicant who rushed to take a pillow off her daughter's face.
14. The applicants' submitted that the neighbours had seen the abductors arrive in two armoured personnel carriers ("APCs") which they had parked in the courtyard. The applicants did not produce any witness statements to corroborate this allegation.
15. According to the fourth applicant, who had spent that night at her parents' flat in the same block of flats, she was woken by the noise. She looked out of a window and saw about twenty servicemen. After they had left, she rushed into the street and saw the tracks of APCs leading in the direction of the main federal military base in the village of Khankala.
(b) The Government's account of events
16. In the Government's submission, on 13 February 2003 at about 4 a.m., unidentified persons in camouflage uniforms and masks armed with automatic firearms entered flat No. 110 at 24 Ioanisiani Street in Grozny, where they beat and tied the seventh applicant, abducted Mr Ilyas Movldiyevich Yanusov, Mr Isa Movldiyevich Yanusov and Mr D. and took them away in an unknown direction.
2. The applicants' search for their relatives
17. According to the applicants, they started searching for their relatives on the morning of 13 February 2003. It was the first, fourth and seventh applicants who contacted various official bodies, such as the local administration, the Chechen administration, the Chechen President, the military commander's office of the Leninskiy District of Grozny ("the district military commander's office") and the prosecutors' offices at different levels. In those applications they described the events of 13 February 2003 and asked for assistance in establishing their relatives' whereabouts. In their efforts the applicants were assisted by the SRJI.
18. The applicants submitted that they had also tried to obtain information concerning their relatives' fate through unofficial channels. In particular, the first applicant had turned for help to her neighbour, Ms P., who lived with Mr M., allegedly a serviceman of an intelligence service, and agreed to question him. Mr M. told Ms P. that Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev were being kept in a "pit" at the federal military base in Khankala. He also mentioned that the person in charge of their arrest was named Ruslan Amirov. Two months later Ms P. learned that the Russian military had abducted the Yansuyev brothers because Mr M. had slandered them.
3. Official investigation into Ilyas and Isa Yansuyev's
disappearance
19. On 13 February 2003 the first applicant complained in writing to the district military commander's office and the head of the a
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