yev were at home at 41 Kirova Street in Belgatoy, Chechnya. The area was under the full control of the Russian federal forces; military checkpoints were located on the roads leading to and from the village.
22. At about 5 p.m. eight or nine silver-coloured vehicles, including a van and VAZ cars, arrived at the applicants' house. Only one of them had a registration number, which was 516 95.
23. About thirty heavily-armed masked servicemen in uniforms got out of the vehicles. Two or three of them were in helmets. The men neither identified themselves nor produced any documents. They communicated in Russian, although a few spoke Chechen. The applicants thought that the intruders were federal servicemen as the vast majority of them spoke unaccented Russian and just a few spoke Chechen.
24. Upon entering the applicants' yard, the servicemen demanded that the residents of the house hand their weapons to them and state who had spent the night in the house. After that the men forced the second applicant and her brother Imali into different rooms.
25. The intruders sprayed some kind of thick liquid into the room where the second applicant was placed. Two of the officers entered Imali's room, where he was forced to stay, beat him and searched the place.
26. Meanwhile other intruders took Sarali out from the house, forced him into the yard and then into one of the cars in the street. As this was happening the first applicant was trying to explain to the servicemen that Sarali was a disabled person and to show them his and Sarali's identity documents. One of the servicemen took them from the first applicant and told him that they did not need any identity documents.
27. The second applicant and Imali ran after the servicemen in an attempt to prevent them from detaining Sarali, but one of the intruders pushed the applicant and sprayed her with the thick liquid, causing her eyes to burn. They also sprayed Imali in the left eye and he ran to rinse his eye under an outdoor water tap. The first applicant also attempted to prevent the soldiers from taking Sarali away. The applicant threw himself onto one of the cars, but a soldier sprayed a liquid into his eyes. A group of the applicants' neighbours witnessed the abduction of Sarali Seriyev.
28. The first applicant followed the abductors' vehicles by car with an officer from a local department of the interior. They drove up to the local military checkpoints; however, the applicant could not obtain any information there about Sarali's abductors.
29. The description of the circumstances surrounding Sarali Seriyev's abduction is based on an account by the first applicant dated 20 May 2005, on an account by the second applicant, dated 6 February 2006, and on documents submitted with the application.
b. The search for Sarali Seriyev and the official investigation
30. On 1 June 2004 the applicants started their search for Sarali Seriyev. They contacted, both in person and in writing, various official bodies, such as the Shali administration, the Chechen administration, the Shali district military commander's office and the prosecutors' offices at different levels, describing in detail the circumstances of their relative's abduction and asking for help in establishing his whereabouts. The applicants retained copies of a number of their complaints and the authorities' replies and submitted them to the Court. An official investigation had been opened by the local prosecutor's office. The relevant information is summarised below.
31. Immediately after his son's abduction, in the late afternoon of 1 June 2004, the first applicant invited the investigators of the Shali district prosecutor's office (the district prosecutor's office). They arrived at the house about half an hour after the events. In the yard they took dow
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