GADAYEV AND OTHERS v. RUSSIA - 51119/15 (Judgment : No Article 2 - Right to life : Third Section Committee)

Alena Poláčková, President, Dmitry Dedov, Gilberto Felici, judges, and Stephen Phillips, Section Registrar ,

. In 2006 Mr Anzor Gadayev and Mr I.G. received a short prison sentence for participation in an illegal armed group. In 2006 and 2007 they were released; they then returned to Mesker-Yurt.

. At around 6 or 7 p.m. on 5 August 2008 a group of armed men in camouflage uniforms arrested Mr I.G. and his cousin, Mr S.I. It is unclear whether the incident took place in a café in the town of Argun or on the Rostov-Baku highway (see paragraph 12 below). The men also seized Mr S.I. ' s white VAZ 2107 car, with the registration number A 620 AY 95 RUS. Presumably they thereafter changed the car ' s registration plate and changed out of their uniforms and then drove to Mesker-Yurt.

. At about 10 p.m. the men arrived at the applicants ' house in Mesker Yurt in civilian clothes in three vehicles: a white VAZ 2107 car with a registration plate containing the digits 32707 RUS; a VAZ 2112 car; and an UAZ jeep without registration plates.

. On 19 August 2008 and 17 January 2009 Mr S.I and Mr I.G. respectively were released from detention; they then returned home. Having been questioned by the investigators, they submitted differing accounts of their abduction. According to Mr I.G., they were abducted from a café, whereas according to Mr S.I., they were arrested by men in camouflage uniforms on the Rostov-Baku highway (see paragraphs 29 , 32 and 35 below).