ng the investigation from the victims of and witnesses to the crime had not mentioned military vehicles. The Government did not submit copies of any of the statements to which they referred (see below).
B. The search for Aslanbek Astamirov and the investigation
20. Immediately after Aslanbek Astamirov's abduction the applicants started looking for him. In the morning of 5 August 2002 the first and second applicants, accompanied by Alkha A. and another man, went to Urus-Martan. They approached the district military commander's office, the head of the district administration and other authorities, but did not find out anything about their missing relative. After that for about two weeks the applicants and their relatives continued to travel daily to Urus-Martan in the hope of finding out about Aslanbek Astamirov, but also in the hope that he would be released because, as the first applicant submitted, they were certain that he had been detained by mistake. The first applicant also submitted that they had been afraid to ask for a criminal investigation because they thought it could have harmed her brother. According to the first applicant, they only submitted an application to the prosecutor's office two weeks after the arrest.
21. On numerous occasions, both in person and in writing, the applicants applied to prosecutors at various levels, to the Ministry of the Interior, to the administrative authorities and to public figures. The first applicant went to look at unidentified bodies found in Urus-Martan and in Grozny on several occasions. In the letters to the authorities the applicants stated the facts of Mr. Astamirov's disappearance and asked for assistance and details of the investigation. Most of these enquiries remained unanswered, and the rest received only formal replies by which the respective requests were forwarded to various prosecutors' offices "for examination". The applicants did not retain copies of all the letters, especially during the first months following the apprehension, but they submitted a number of them to the Court. Below is a summary of their correspondence with the authorities.
22. On 10 November 2002 the second applicant wrote to the Prosecutor General's Office, to the South Federal Circuit Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, to the military prosecutor of Chechnya, to the National Public Commission for Investigation of Offences and Protection of Human Rights in the North Caucasus (Национальная общественная комиссия по расследованию правонарушений и соблюдению прав человека на Северном Кавказе) and to the member of the State Duma for Chechnya. She stated the details of her son's disappearance and asked for assistance in finding him. She stressed that Aslanbek Astamirov was suffering from TB and was in need of medical help. She mentioned that she had applied to the Urus-Martan district prosecutor's office but that she had received no news about the missing man.
23. On 20 November 2002 the Urus-Martan district prosecutor's office (the district prosecutor's office) forwarded the second applicant's complaint to the Urus-Martan district department of the interior (ROVD) for a check.
24. On 6 December 2002 (or on 1 January 2003 - see below) the district prosecutor's office opened criminal investigation file No. 34001 into the abduction of Aslanbek Astamirov on 5 August 2002 by unidentified armed persons wearing camouflage uniforms and masks. An investigation was opened into a kidnapping committed by a group under Article 126 part 2 of the Criminal Code.
25. On 12 December 2002 the Urus-Martan district prosecutor's office summoned Maret T., the wife of Alkha A., for questioning as a witness.
26. On 13 January 2003 the first applicant was granted victim status in the criminal investigation into her brother's abduction.
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