questioned the applicant. Her witness statement was similar to the one provided on 9 January 2002. In addition, the applicant stated that although the servicemen who had been manning the checkpoint across the street from her house had witnessed the abduction, they had failed to stop the perpetrators; that the military commander General Gadzhiyev had told her that Abu Khasuyev had been taken to the detention centre in Chernokozovo and that the administration of the detention centre had denied having him as one of their detainees.
65. On 8 September 2004 the investigators questioned the wife of Abu Khasuyev, Mrs R.Zh., who stated that at 1.30 p.m. on 30 August 2001 a group of about ten armed men in camouflage uniform had broken into the flat. They spoke unaccented Russian. Abu Khasuyev had been sick and stayed at home that day. The intruders had taken him away without providing any explanations. The men had arrived in a red VAZ-2121 car, a white VAZ-2107 car, and a UAZ vehicle; none of the vehicles had had registration numbers. The witness had seen the intruders forcing her husband into the white VAZ car and the cars driving away in the direction of Grozny.
66. On 29 October 2005 the investigators again questioned the applicant. She explained that she had nothing to add to the statements she had given previously.
67. The Government further submitted that on 19 June 2006 the district prosecutor had approved a plan of measures to be taken by the investigation into the disappearance of the applicant's son. According to the plan, a number of requests for investigative measures had been issued to various law enforcement bodies; however, those efforts had failed to produce any tangible results.
68. On 20 June 2006 the investigators forwarded a number of requests for information to various detention centres concerning the whereabouts of Abu Khasuyev. According to their replies, the applicant's son was not detained in any of those centres.
69. On 22 June 2006 the investigators questioned Mrs A.Kh., who stated that at about 1 p.m. on 30 August 2001 she had arrived at the applicant's house. Abu Khasuyev was ill and had stayed at home that day. According to the witness, she had been changing in one of the rooms when two armed men in camouflage uniforms, one of them masked, walked into the room. When Mrs A.Kh. saw the men she fainted. When she regained consciousness the intruders had already gone, taking Abu Khasuyev with them.
70. On 28 June 2006 the investigators questioned an officer of the ROVD, Mr R.G., who stated that in October 2002 the applicant had not requested any information from him and that he had not shown to her any registration logs.
71. On 28 June 2006 the investigators also questioned Mr R.D., who stated that at lunchtime on 30 August 2001 he and his friend Mr Kh.O. had been walking past the two-storey apartment building at 20 Sovetskaya Street and past the checkpoint situated across from the building when they saw men in military uniforms armed with automatic weapons; two of them were putting a tall young man who was barefoot and had his T-shirt pulled over his head into a white VAZ-2107 car. The third man, who was the driver, had ordered: "To the base, to the base". Another armed man had been standing next to the car, pointing his machine gun around and yelling that everyone should keep away. The witness and Mr Kh.O. had been standing about five metres away and could observe closely what was happening. Another two vehicles had been parked nearby; a military UAZ vehicle had been on the left side of the road and a VAZ-2121 car on the right. After the young man had been placed in the car, all three vehicles had driven away in a northerly direction.
72. According to the Government, on 28 June 2006 the investigators also questioned Mrs A.E., who stated that at about 10 a.m. on 30 August 2001 she had been at home. Suddenly, she had
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