32. An extract from Aslandek Khamidov's medical record was included in the investigation file, according to which between 22 September and 2 October 2000 Aslandek Khamidov had been treated in Kurchaloy Hospital for numerous missile wounds.
33. On an unspecified date Mr A., the head of the local administration of Alleroy between January 2000 and August 2001, was questioned and stated that on 25 October 2000 six villagers, including a distant relation of his - Aslandek Khamidov - had been arrested. All of them, except for Aslandek Khamidov, had been released later. Mr A. had issued a certificate concerning Aslandek Khamidov's arrest in the course of the special sweeping operation upon the first applicant's request as she had needed to present the certificate to the law-enforcement agencies. Mr A. was not sure whether Aslandek Khamidov had been kept in Tsentoroy upon his arrest.
34. On 6 February 2003 the first applicant was questioned again. She stated that on 25 October 2000 twenty drunken servicemen in camouflage uniforms had entered her courtyard and ordered all men present to strip down to their trousers. They had taken Aslanbek Khamidov away, allegedly to verify the origin of his missile wound.
35. On 12 February 2003 Mr T. was questioned. He stated that on 25 October 2000 he and Mr I. had been pasturing cattle on the outskirts of Alleroy. At about 9 or 10 a.m. Mr I.'s nephew had told them that there had been a military check in the village. Five or ten minutes later unmasked armed men in camouflage uniforms had arrived; one of them had had a metal detector. They had put Mr T. and Mr I. in an Ural vehicle and driven in the direction of the village of Novogrozny where the federal military had been located. At some point Mr T. and Mr I. had been taken out of the Ural vehicle and seen Mr U. and some other persons sitting on the ground with their heads hidden under shirts. Then Mr T. had been put in the Ural vehicle again and taken to other premises controlled by the federal forces. There he had been placed in a pit together with Mr M. and a young man named Sergey. Having spent a night in the pit Mr T. had been brought to a tent. Several unmasked men sitting at a table inside the tent had questioned him about their relations with Aslan Maskhadov, one of the insurgents' leaders. In the afternoon the detainees had been put in a helicopter and flown for some ten or twenty minutes. Upon landing they had been driven to a house in which Mr T. had been kept for a week and questioned about his connections with the insurgents by an elderly blonde bespectacled man. Then Mr T. had been released. Mr T. did not mention that he had seen Aslanbek Khamidov on 25 October 2000 after the arrest.
36. The investigators were informed that Aslandek Khamidov had not been kept in temporary detention facilities of the Kurchaloy, Itum-Kalinskiy and Naurskiy districts or in remand prisons of the North Caucasus Region.
37. On an unspecified date the military commander of the Chechen Republic informed the investigators that units under his command had not carried out any special operations in Alleroy on 25 October 2000 and had not arrested Aslandek Khamidov.
38. The prosecutor's offices of the Groznenskiy, Shalinskiy and Nadterechny districts and the Achkhoy-Martan interdistrict prosecutor's office informed the investigators that they had no information on Aslandek Khamidov's arrest.
39. The investigation was suspended a number of times for failure to identify the perpetrators. The decisions on suspension were repeatedly quashed by higher prosecutor's offices.
40. On an unspecified date the first applicant was questioned again and confirmed her previous statements. She also said that no pressure was being exercised upon her by law-enforcement agencies in relation to her application lodged with the Court.
41. The investi
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