GANATOVA AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA - 44776/09 (Judgment : Article 2 - Right to life : Third Section Committee)

Georgios A. Serghides, President, Branko Lubarda, Erik Wennerström, judges , and Stephen Phillips , Section Registrar ,

. At about 6 a.m. on 29 August 2003 two UAZ minivans and a VAZ 21099 car (all the vehicles had no registration plates) arrived at the house in Grozny which belonged to Mr A.K. and Ms L.S., who were hosting Mr Isa Kukayev at the time.

. Several men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas, armed with automatic weapons, left the vehicles and burst into the house. Having checked the identity documents of Mr A.K. and Mr Isa Kukayev, they took the latter to an unknown destination. During the operation several other armed men secured the surrounding area.

. On 8 April 2007 the applicant ' s family was contacted by Mr S. He stated that on 17 August 2003 he had been arrested by service personnel and then placed in a cell in the basement of the dairy farm. Several days later Mr Isa Kukayev had joined him. He had been arrested on suspicion of participation in bombing attacks. Two weeks later the service personnel had taken Mr Isa Kukayev out of the cell. He had never returned.

. On 29 August 2003 Mr A.K. informed the Zavodskoiy district prosecutor ' s office in Grozny ("the investigators") of Mr Isa Kukayev ' s abduction.