ion of Vakha Saydaliyev's abduction under Article 126 § 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (aggravated kidnapping). The case file was assigned the number 59186.
50. On an unspecified date the applicants' house was inspected. The inspection of the crime scene gave no results. No items were found or seized.
51. On 23 September 2002 the first applicant was granted victim status and questioned. She stated that at about 12 noon on 16 April 2004 Vakha Saydaliyev had been in the courtyard of his home. An Ural vehicle carrying around twenty men wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and armed with machine guns had driven inside the courtyard. The armed men had said that Vakha Saydaliyev had been filmed on video at the moment of kidnapping by a military commander of the Vedeno District. Then they had taken her son away. The first applicant alleged that Vakha Saydaliyev could have been kept at the Khankala military base. Her son had not been involved in illegal armed groups.
52. On 6 October 2002 the investigation in case No. 59186 was suspended for failure to identify those responsible and the first applicant was informed accordingly.
53. On 3 April 2003 Mr Ch., a head of the local administration of the village of Serzhen-Yurt, issued the applicants with a certificate confirming that Vakha Saydaliyev "had been detained and taken away by men wearing camouflage uniforms and masks".
54. On 25 June 2004 the investigation was resumed.
55. On 16 July 2004 three persons, apparently villagers of Serzhen-Yurt, were questioned as witnesses. They made statements identical to the first applicant's deposition of 23 September 2002.
56. On 1 August 2004 the investigation was again suspended.
57. On 1 August 2007 the investigation was resumed owing to the need to take additional investigative steps.
58. The investigators requested information concerning special operations carried out on the date of the kidnapping from the military commander's office of the Shali District, the ROVD and the FSB Department. According to the replies received, no special operations had been carried out in the village of Serzhen-Yurt on that day and Vakha Saydaliyev had not been arrested or placed in a temporary detention facility.
59. The investigators also sent requests to all prosecutors' offices and departments of the interior in the Chechen Republic, which brought no results. Vakha Saydaliyev's body was not found among unidentified corpses.
60. On unspecified dates after the resumption of the investigation on 1 August 2007 Mr Kh., the applicants' neighbour, Mr S., the ROVD officer, and Mr Ch., the former head of the local administration, were questioned.
61. Mr Kh. stated that on 17 April 2002 he had been abducted by unknown persons and taken to a building on the outskirts of the village of Avtury. There he had been asked whether there had been any insurgents in the village of Serzhen-Yurt. A day later he had been released. He had not seen Vakha Saydaliyev in that building.
62. Mr Ch. and Mr S. stated that they had issued the certificates dated 3 and 24 April 2003 respectively at the first applicant's request and the contents of those certificates had been based on the applicants' account of the events given to the investigators.
63. It follows from the Government's additional observations of 21 January 2008 that at some point Leyla [Luisa] Saydaliyeva was questioned. She stated that on 16 April 2002 one of the armed men had hit her hands twice with a machine gun butt while she had been trying to prevent him from moving. She had not sought medical assistance because no significant injuries had been inflicted on her.
64. The investigation, which so far failed to identify the perpetrators, was ongoing. The implication of any law-enforcement agencies in the crime had not been esta
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