ded the investigators with his address. She also stated that her relatives had complained about the abduction to various state authorities in 2000, but that the latter had failed to take measures to establish the whereabouts of the disappeared men. In connection with this she offered to provide the investigators with copies of letters from the district prosecutor's office of 10 October 2000 and 28 February 2002 and from another law-enforcement agency of 19 August 2002, which confirmed the fact that her relatives had then informed the authorities about the abduction, but no tangible measures had been taken.
61. On 14 February 2007 the investigators questioned the fourth applicant, who stated that at about 5 p.m. on 13 September 2000 she had learnt from Ms R.Zh. that Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had been arrested by servicemen at the checkpoint located in Lenin Street, in the former clothing factory. The witness had immediately gone there with her relatives. At the checkpoint she had met relatives of Magomed-Ali Abayev. She had learnt from the first applicant that at about 4 p.m. Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had been stopped at the checkpoint for an identity check and then taken to the factory; after that a UAZ vehicle had driven into the factory yard and Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had been taken away in this car. According to the witness, after she had spoken with the first applicant, the servicemen at the checkpoint had informed them that Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had been released from the checkpoint through the other gates, in Krasnoarmeyskaya Street. After that incident her son had disappeared. The witness further stated that in October 2001 a man of average height, who must have been twenty-six or twenty-seven years old, had arrived at her house and told her that two days ago he had been leaving the headquarters of the 245th regiment of the federal forces under the command of General Shamanov and that he had seen Anvar Shaipov there. The latter asked him to inform his family that he was there. The witness had not seen the young man again. In 2002 a woman had arrived at the applicant's house and told her that her son Anvar Shaipov had been detained in the Chernokozovo detention centre in Chechnya. After that the applicant had twice visited the detention centre where he had been told that her son had not been detained there. She did not hear any news about her disappeared son ever since. On 8 June 2007 the investigators again questioned the fourth applicant, who confirmed her previous statement.
62. On 16 February 2007 the investigators questioned the first applicant's neighbour, Mr R.G., who stated that at the material time he had lived across the street from the first applicant's house. A federal forces checkpoint was next to the former clothing factory; the servicemen manning the checkpoint lived in the factory building. On 13 September 2000 he had been repairing the house gates. Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had greeted him and walked by in the direction of the town centre. Then he had seen that the two men had been stopped at the checkpoint and that the servicemen had asked for their identity documents. After Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had provided their documents, one of the servicemen had taken them into the building. Meanwhile he approached Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov and asked them what was happening. Magomed-Ali Abayev explained to him that the servicemen frequently stopped pedestrians for identity checks and that there was nothing to worry about. After that the servicemen asked Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov to go into the building and the two men went inside. About ten minutes later he asked one of the officers what was taking so long and why Magomed-Ali Abayev and Anvar Shaipov had not come back. The servicemen called someone on the phone and told him that the two men would be released shortly. Then he we
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