to date [the detainees] have not returned to their places of residence, they are being searched for by their relatives and their whereabouts are not established."
33. On 25 October 2000 the Urus-Martan District Prosecutor's Office informed the first applicant about the institution of criminal proceedings.
34. On 31 October 2000 the second applicant was granted victim status in the proceedings.
35. On 11 November 2000 the first applicant was granted victim status in the proceedings.
36. The first and second applicants, questioned on unspecified dates, made statements similar to their description of the events as submitted to the Court. At the same time, according to the Government, the first applicant informed the investigating authorities that her son had been detained because he had not had his passport with him because it had been lost. According to the first applicant, she never made such a statement.
37. On 18 December 2000 the investigation into criminal case No. 24048 was adjourned.
38. On 22 January 2001 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic forwarded the first applicant's letter to the Urus-Martan District Prosecutor's Office.
39. On 25 January 2001 the Urus-Martan District Prosecutor's Office wrote to the first applicant, informing her that criminal proceedings had been instituted further to her complaints.
40. In March 2001 the first applicant watched the video recording of the bodies exhumed in Goy-Chu on 22 August 2000 and noted that one of the dead resembled Kazbek Vakhayev and was dressed in similar clothes. She also noted that the body was disfigured by torture; in particular, it was covered in bruises, parts of the flesh had been ripped off, and the fingernails had been pulled out. Relatives of the other three missing men, Yusup Satabayev, G. and Ch., also watched the video-tape and, likewise, considered that the other bodies looked like their relatives. Accordingly they all concluded that the four missing men were likely to have been executed on 13 August 2000. They requested the Urus-Martan District Prosecutor's Office, in person, to order the exhumation and a forensic examination of the bodies buried in Goyskoye.
41. On 12 April 2001 the applicants obtained a death certificate in respect of Kazbek Vakhayev from the Urus-Martan civil register. 24 March 2001 was indicated as the date of death. No other details were stated. It is not clear what constituted the basis for the issue of the death certificate. According to the Government, a check was instituted by the prosecuting authorities concerning its issue. There is no information on the outcome of the check.
42. On 6 June 2001 the Urus-Martan District Prosecutor's Office informed the first applicant that Kazbek Vakhayev, Yusup Satabayev, G. and Ch., who had been arrested on 1 August 2000, had been released on 14 August 2000 and sent to their places of residence. In this letter the applicant was also informed about the adjournment of the criminal investigation as of 18 December 2000.
43. On 3 September 2001 the first applicant filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General, requesting that the head of the Urus-Martan VOVD, Colonel Sh., and the acting District Prosecutor I. be brought to justice. She also requested that there should be a criminal investigation in relation to the discovery of four unidentified bodies near Goy-Chu.
44. On 13 October 2001 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic ordered the Urus-Martan District Prosecutor's Office to submit the investigation file in case No. 24048 for examination.
45. On 25 February 2002 the first applicant complained to the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic that she had received no reply to her previous letters. She asked for the resumption of the criminal investigation and that all her previous applications be
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