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46. On 17 December 2003 the Chechnya Prosecutor's Office informed the SRJI that on 10 December 2003 the criminal investigations into the abductions of Mr Meshayev and Mr Saydayev had been joined. Further details would be communicated to the applicants directly.
47. On 7 July 2004 the SRJI wrote to the district prosecutor's office and again asked for information about the progress of the investigation.
48. On 21 July 2004 the district prosecutor's office replied to the SRJI that the two criminal cases had been joined under file number 34002 and that on 13 December 2004 (to quote the text) the investigation had been adjourned. Efforts to find the two men would continue.
49. On 14 November 2005 the SRJI asked the district prosecutor's office to inform them of the progress in the investigation and to carry out the following actions: to identify the provenance of the military vehicles involved in the abduction, to locate and review all registration documents related to the movement of military vehicles in the district on the night in question, to identify the authorities that had carried out special operations in the district on 17 December 2002 and to question their officers about the detention of Leoma Meshayev and Bislan Saydayev, and to question the servicemen of the Urus-Martan military commander's office and other officials in charge of enforcing the curfew.
2. Search for Bislan Saydayev
50. In the morning after his brother's abduction, on 17 December 2002, the fourteenth applicant went to the military commander of the village. He submitted that the commander had told him that he did not know who had detained his brother. The commander also told him that on the previous day, on 16 December 2002, he had received a warning that an operation was being prepared in their village, but that later this operation had been cancelled. He had not been informed about the reasons for the operation or for its cancellation. He also allegedly promised to help them if Bislan Saydayev had been detained by the military, but said that he would not be able to do anything if he had been detained by the FSB.
51. The applicants submitted that in the following weeks they applied in person with inquiries about the fate of their relative to the district military commander's office, the FSB, ROVD and the prosecutor's office. The ninth applicant also asked the head of the Administration of Chechnya to order an investigation of his brother's detention by unidentified servicemen.
52. At some point the applicants submitted written applications to the authorities stating the circumstances of Mr Saydayev's detention and requesting assistance in finding him. They did not retain copies of these applications, but kept copies of the later applications. On 24 March 2003 the ninth applicant requested the district prosecutor's office to open a criminal investigation into his brother's abduction or to inform him if his brother had been accused of any crime. He referred to their previous unsuccessful applications to various law-enforcement structures.
53. On 6 April 2003 the ninth applicant wrote to the member of the State Duma elected from Chechnya and to the Speaker of the State Duma, complaining about his brother's disappearance. He stated that they had applied to various law-enforcement bodies in vain. The ninth applicant asked the Duma to create a commission to investigate the phenomenon of "disappearances" in Chechnya.
54. On 11 April 2003 the district prosecutor's office informed the ninth applicant that their office had opened criminal proceedings into his brother's kidnapping.
55. On 23 April 2003 the ninth applicant was granted victim status in criminal investigation file No. 34041 opened into his brother's abduction by unidentified persons.
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