istrict of Grozny ("the district prosecutor's office").
21. On 11 July 2003 the UGA prosecutor's office forwarded the first applicant's complaint to the military prosecutor's office of military unit No. 20102 ("the unit prosecutor's office").
22. On 21 July 2003 the department of the interior of the Zavodskoy District of Grozny ("ROVD") issued a certificate confirming that Aslanbek Khamzayev had been missing since 25 June 2002 and that search case No. 02027 was pending before the ROVD.
23. On 15 August 2003 the unit prosecutor's office informed the first applicant that an inquiry into Aslanbek Khamzayev's disappearance had established that her son had not been arrested in the course of "sweeping" operations on 25 June 2002. No implication of the Russian military in the crime had been established. They also noted that her complaint had been forwarded to the prosecutor's office of the Urus-Martan District.
24. On 20 August 2003 the Prosecutor General's Office for the Southern Federal Circuit informed the first applicant that her complaint had been forwarded to the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic.
25. On 4 September 2003 the unit prosecutor's office forwarded the first applicant's complaint to the military commander of the Urus-Martan District.
26. On 25 November 2003 the SRJI requested the district prosecutor's office to inform them whether an investigation into Aslabek Khamzayev's kidnapping by Russian servicemen had been opened and what investigative measures, if any, had been taken. They also requested the investigators to interrogate certain witnesses of the crime.
27. On 27 November 2003 the prosecutor's office of the Chechen Republic forwarded the first applicant's letter to the district prosecutor's office ordering that it be included in the investigation file in case No. 50115.
28. On 2 February 2005 the SRJI requested the district prosecutor's office to inform them of progress in the investigation in case No. 50115.
2. Information submitted by the Government
29. On 5 August 2002 the first applicant complained about her son's abduction to the city prosecutor's office.
30. On 6 August 2002 the city prosecutor's office instituted an investigation into Aslanbek Khamzayev's abduction under Article 126 § 2 of the Russian Criminal Code (aggravated kidnapping). The case file was assigned number 50115.
31. On 22 August 2002 the first applicant was granted victim status and questioned. She submitted that Aslanbek Khamzayev had resided in the village of Gekhi. On 24 July 2002 he had gone to the Zavodskoy District to visit his relative, Ms Yu. On 25 July 2002 Ms Yu. had told the first applicant that earlier that day federal servicemen carrying out a "sweeping" security operation had checked Aslanbek Khamzayev's identity papers and then let him go. He had then left for his home village. At about 5 p.m. a woman had told Ms Yu. that unknown men in camouflage uniforms had apprehended a young man near a dam. To protect the young man, the woman had told the men that she was his mother. The men in camouflage uniforms had proved that that was not the case by showing her identity papers in the name of A. Khamzayev and left.
32. On 27 July 2003 Ms V. was questioned as a witness. She stated that on 25 July 2002 she had overheard an elderly lady saying that she had witnessed the arrest of a young man by federal servicemen. When the lady told the servicemen that the arrested man was her son, they had produced identity papers in the name of Aslambek Khamzayev. The lady had also mentioned that she had seen an APC with numbers "2" and "8" on a muddied registration number plate.
33. On 31 July 2003 Ms Yu. was questioned and stated that on 25 July 2005 she had seen
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