r's office informed the applicant that Gilani and Zurab Iriskhanov had been taken by helicopter to Khankala, Chechnya.
37. On 27 June 2002 the investigators questioned the applicants' neighbour Ms R.Yu., who stated that at about 8 p.m. on 19 June 2002 she had been at home when she had heard gunfire. Through the fence she had seen a group of about ten men in camouflage uniforms and armed with automatic weapons in the Iriskhanovs' vegetable garden. These men had taken a young man from there and put him in an APC. After the military vehicle had left she learnt from the first applicant that the armed men had abducted her sons.
38. On 27 June 2002 the investigators questioned the applicants' relative, Ms Kh.Ch., whose statement concerning the circumstances of the abduction of Gilani and Zurab Iriskhanov by military servicemen and the subsequent events was similar to the first applicant's statement of 24 June 2002.
39. On 27 June 2002 the investigators questioned the applicants' neighbour, Ms L.A., who stated that at about 8 p.m. on 19 June 2002 she had heard from her house gunshots, screams, loud swearing in Russian and the noise of armoured vehicles. After the shooting had stopped, she had gone to the Iriskhanovs, where the first applicant had told her that armed men in camouflage uniforms, who had arrived in APCs, had taken away her son Zurab Iriskhanov.
40. On 27 June 2002 the investigators also questioned the applicants' neighbour, Ms A.M. who stated that at about 8 p.m. on 19 June 2002 she had been at home when she had heard gunshots. She had gone out into the street, where she had seen an APC and a group of nine armed men in camouflage uniforms standing next to it and swearing in Russian. Her neighbour, the first applicant, was standing next to the gate crying. After the APC had gone she found out from the first applicant that the men had beaten and abducted her son Zurab Iriskhanov. On 8 June 2005 the witness was questioned again and stated that after the military servicemen had taken away Gilani and Zurab Iriskhanov, the applicants and about 300 other residents of the village had gone to the local military commander's office, where they had spent three days waiting for news of the abducted men. On 1 July 2002 Gilani had returned home; according to the applicants, he had been handed over to them by officers of the Regional Department of the Fight Against Organised Crime of the Ministry of the Interior (the RUBOP) and that he had been detained in a pre-trial detention centre in Grozny.
41. On 28 June 2002 the investigators questioned Gilani Iriskhanov, who stated that at about 8 p.m. on 19 June 2002 two APCs with a group of about fifty unidentified armed men in camouflage uniforms had arrived at his family's house. The men placed him in one of the APCs. His brother Zurab had tried to run away from them, but was caught and also put into the APC. After that the brothers were taken to the military commander's office in Samashki, where they were detained for two days; on the third day they were taken by a helicopter to Khankala, where they were detained for three more days. After that they were taken to the RUBOP in Grozny. Throughout the detention the brothers were kept separately and did not see each other. According to the witness, he was not beaten during the detention. On 27 July 2002 he was released and returned home. The Government did not provide a copy of this witness statement.
42. On 28 and 29 June 2002 the investigators questioned the applicants' neighbours, Ms M.S. and Ms Ma.S., whose statements concerning the circumstances of the abduction were similar to the one provided by Ms A.M.
43. On 30 June 2002 the investigators questioned the applicants' neighbour, Ms G.A., who stated that at about 8 p.m. on 19 June 2002 she had been at home when she had heard gunshots and gone outside. In the ve
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