ordingly, confirming that they had surrendered their weapons and quitted their participation in illegal armed groups, both documents dated 21 January 2000.
2. Information submitted by the Government
27. The Government did not dispute the circumstances of the abduction of Abubakar and Salman Bantayev. According to their submission, "during the night of 2 January 2003, unidentified persons in camouflage uniforms and masks, armed with automatic weapons, abducted Salman Aliyevich Bantayev from his house at 8 Stalskaya Street and Abubakar Aliyevich Bantayev from his house at 1 Zapadnaya Street in the village of Komsomolskoye in the Gudermes district of the Chechen Republic".
28. The Government further submitted that the applicants had not been consistent in their description of the facts as, according to the first applicant, the abductors spoke Russian and Chechen, whereas the eighth applicant had stated that they spoke only Russian. According to the Government, communication in Chechen was not typical for representatives of Russian federal forces.
B. The search for Abubakar and Salman Bantayev
and the official investigation into their abduction
1. The applicants' account
29. Since 2 January 2003 the first applicant has repeatedly applied in person and in writing to various public bodies. She has been supported in her efforts by the SRJI NGO. In her letters to the authorities the first applicant referred to her sons' detention and asked for assistance and details of the investigation. Mostly these enquiries have remained unanswered, or purely formal replies have been given in which her requests have been forwarded to various prosecutors' offices. The applicants submitted some of the letters to the authorities and their replies to the Court. These documents are summarised below.
30. On 4 March 2003 the first applicant requested the head of the Chechen administration, the Chechnya prosecutor and the Chechnya military prosecutor to assist her in the search for her sons. In her letter she stated that her sons had been abducted by unidentified men in camouflage uniforms who had arrived in two UAZ vehicles. She also pointed out that her sons had quitted their participation in illegal armed groups in 2000 and that since then they had been law-abiding citizens.
31. On 22 September 2003 the first applicant wrote to the Prosecutor General, the Chechnya prosecutor's office, the military prosecutor of the United Group Alignment (the military prosecutor of the UGA) and the Chief Federal Inspector of the Southern Federal Circuit in Chechnya requesting assistance in the search for her sons. In her letters she stated that her sons had been abducted by unidentified men in camouflage uniforms who had arrived in two UAZ vehicles. She also pointed out that her sons had quitted their participation in illegal armed groups in 2000 and since then they had been law-abiding citizens. The applicant requested to be informed whether the authorities had brought any charges against her sons and what had been the reasons for their arrest.
32. On 22 September 2003 the first applicant requested the district prosecutor's office to institute an investigation into her sons' disappearance and provide her with information about its progress.
33. On 5 November 2003 the SRJI wrote on behalf of the first applicant to the district prosecutor's office. They stated that the applicant's two sons had been taken away by representatives of federal forces in camouflage uniforms who had arrived in two UAZ cars. The SRJI requested to be informed whether an investigation into the Bantayev brothers' disappearance had been instituted and, if so, which investigative measures had been taken to solve the crime. They also requested that the first applicant be granted victim status in
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