enquiries mostly remained unanswered, or only formal responses were given by which the respective requests were forwarded to various prosecutors' offices "for examination".
31. According to the applicant, she and her daughter-in-law also participated in examinations of unidentified corpses found in Chechnya.
C. The official investigation into the disappearance
of Abu Khasuyev
1. Information submitted by the applicant
32. At some point in October 2001 an investigator from the ROVD visited the applicant's home and informed her that a search for her son had commenced on 10 October 2001. Then the investigator questioned the applicant, her daughter-in-law and one of the neighbours. According to the applicant, the questions related mostly to Abu Khasuyev's personality rather than to the circumstances of his disappearance.
33. Some time later in October 2001 the applicant was summoned to the ROVD; an investigator, who introduced himself as Sasha, told her that her son was dead. In reply to the applicant's request for proof, the investigator referred to a certain register in which there was an entry to this effect. Some time later she spoke to an officer from the ROVD, who showed her the register and read out from it that "Khasuyev had been killed". During the ensuing conversation the applicant found out that the investigator had mistakenly been referring to another person. After that the investigator assured her that the search for her son would be continued.
34. On 29 October 2001 the Chechnya FSB informed the applicant that they had not detained Abu Khasuyev, and that they were unable to establish his whereabouts.
35. On 12 November 2001 the military prosecutor of the North Caucasus Military Circuit forwarded the applicant's complaint about her son's abduction to the military prosecutor of military unit No. 20102.
36. On 22 December 2001 the Urus-Martan district prosecutor's office (the Urus-Martan prosecutor's office) opened a criminal investigation into Abu Khasuyev's disappearance under Article 126 § 1 of the Criminal Code (kidnapping). The file was assigned No. 25170.
37. On 9 January 2002 the applicant was granted victim status in the criminal case.
38. On 22 February 2002 the investigators suspended the investigation in the criminal case for failure to establish the identity of the perpetrators. The applicant was informed about this decision on 3 December 2002 (see paragraph 42 below).
39. On 18 April 2002 the Department of Administration of Punishments of the Volgograd Region informed the applicant that Abu Khasuyev had not been detained in their pre-trial detention centres or penitentiary facilities.
40. On 1 July 2002 the Chechnya representative in the State Duma referred the applicant's complaint that her son had been abducted to the Chechnya prosecutor's office.
41. On 2 October 2002 the Department of the Prosecutor General's office in the Southern Federal Circuit forwarded the applicant's request for assistance in establishing Abu Khasuyev's whereabouts to the Chechnya prosecutor's office for examination.
42. On 3 December 2002 the Chechnya prosecutor's office informed the applicant that the criminal investigation had been suspended on 22 February 2002, then resumed on 20 November 2002, and that it was currently in progress.
43. On 24 March 2003 (in the submitted documents the date is also given as 25 March 2003) the Urus-Martan prosecutor's office suspended the investigation in the criminal case for failure to establish the identity of the perpetrators. The applicant was not informed about this decision.
44. On 5 April 2003 the military prosecutor of the United Group Alignment (the UGA) forwarded the applicant's complaint that her
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