ticle 2 of the Convention and with Article 3 of the Convention in respect of Mr Magomed Dokuyev.
138. As regards the violation of Article 3 of the Convention found on account of the first, second and third applicant's mental suffering as a result of the disappearance of their family member, their inability to find out what had happened to him and the way the authorities had handled their complaints, the Court notes that it has already found a violation of Article 13 of the Convention in conjunction with Article 2 of the Convention on account of the authorities' conduct that led to the suffering endured by the applicants. The Court considers that, in the circumstances, no separate issue arises in respect of Article 13 in connection with Article 3 of the Convention.
139. As regards the applicants' reference to Article 5 of the Convention, the Court notes that according to its established case-law the more specific guarantees of Article 5 §§ 4 and 5, being a lex specialis in relation to Article 13, absorb its requirements and in view of its above findings of a violation of Article 5 of the Convention by unacknowledged detention, the Court considers that no separate issue arises in respect of Article 13 read in conjunction with Article 5 of the Convention in the circumstances of the present case.
VIII. Alleged violation of Article 34 of the Convention
140. In their observations submitted after the Court had declared the application admissible on 29 November 2007, the applicants complained under Article 34 of the Convention alleging that the State had interfered with their right of individual petition. They referred in this regard to the transcripts of questioning of the first applicant on 25 October 2005 and of the fifth applicant on 26 October 2005 and to the reply of the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic of 12 April 2006. They claimed that while neither of them had actually stated that they had not applied to the Court, the transcripts of the questioning had been forged and then submitted by the Government to the Court together with a request for strike out. Article 34 of the Convention reads, in so far as relevant, as follows:
"The Court may receive applications from any person... claiming to be the victim of a violation by one of the High Contracting Parties of the rights set forth in the Convention or the Protocols thereto. The High Contracting Parties undertake not to hinder in any way the effective exercise of this right."
A. Arguments of the parties
141. The Government contested the applicants' submissions. They stated that in the course of the investigation the first and fifth applicants had been questioned with regard to their application before the Court. During the questioning on 25 October 2005 the first applicant had stated that neither he nor other members of his family had applied directly to the Court, but that he had applied to human rights organisations. The fifth applicant, questioned on 26 October 2005, had stated that she had not applied to any organisations in connection with her brother's abduction. The search for her brother had been conducted by her father. The Government clarified that in the reply of 12 April 2006 the Prosecutor's Office of the Chechen Republic referred to two transcripts of the first applicant's questioning on 21 and 26 October 2005, when no questions concerning the application before the Court had been put to him. They averred that all transcripts had been authentic and accurate and reflected the applicants' statements made during the questioning. The Government argued that there was no interference with the applicants' right of individual petition under Article 34 of the Convention.
142. The applicants maintained his complaint. The first and fifth applicants insisted that they had never denied having ap
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