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Articles violated and reason Criminal investigation failings

applicant distress F/DBR the failure to carry out a ballistics report or delays in doing so ADA and anguish (art

applicant's F/DCA the failure to carry out an appropriate autopsy or forensic report, or delays in doing so ADR detention on remand applicant's life is F/DDIE failure or delays in collecting evidence or in drawing up an inventory of real evidence put at risk but they ALR are not killed

applicant torture F/DICP the failure to initiate criminal proceedings or delays in doing so, or to specify what investigative AT/AIT or ill treatment steps were taken denial of access F/DQA the failure to question the applicants or delays in doing so to court DAC

delay in enforcing F/DQW the failure to identify and question witnesses or delays in doing so, or the failure to raise DEJ judgment. particular pertinent questions

damage inflicted F/DM the failure to draw up a map, plan or itinerary DIAE on applicant's estate disappearance F/IVW the failure to identify other victims, witnesses or potential perpetrators of an attack, including DIS leading to art 2 those identified or named by the applicants extra-judicial LI lack of independence EJE execution failure/arbitrarines PI periods of inactivity, suspension & resumption of proceedings s in examination F/ACC of applicant's compensation claim FDM failure to de-mine IS illegal search Unit identified ill treatment APC Armoured personnel carrier leading to death ITD

NC no compensation FSB Federal Security Service NJR no judicial review GRU Main Intelligence Directorate no effective GUIN Main Directorate for Reformatory Justice NECI criminal investigation no release IBV Infantry battle vehicle NRPT pending trial peaceful OMON Special Purpose Police Detachment enjoyment of PEP possessions/prop erty prolonged non- ORB Operational Investigation Bureau PNEJ enforcement of judgment removal from ROVD District Department of the Interior RC country RE refused entry RUBOP Regional Department for the Fight against Organised Crime respect for the SOBR Special Rapid-Reaction Detachment RH home RR right to a remedy UAV Unmanned aerial vehicle SHL shelling UBOP Department for the Fight against Organised Crime seizure of VOVD Temporary Department of Internal Affairs SP property temporary occupation of TOAE applicant's estate

unacknowledged UD detention

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victim torture or ill VT/IT treatment Location of Articles violated + Criminal investigation Case name App. number Date of judgment Date of incident Unit identified Lawyer/Organisation incident reason failings Art 2: EJE, ALR,SHL, Unconfirmed, believed to be federal military. Indiscriminate heavy shelling of Katyr-Yurt in Isayeva 57950/00 24/02/2005 04/02/2000 PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC NECI; Art 13: RR special military operation. 57497/00, Isayeva, Yusupova and Art 2: SHL, ALR, Fighter planes of the Russian military air force. Attacked refugee convoy on "Kavkaz" road 57948/00, 24/02/2005 29/10/1999 Chechnya FQA, DICP, FIVW, DDIE, FICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC Bazayeva NECI; Art 13: RR between Shaami-Yurt and Achkhoy-Martan. 57950/00 57942/00, Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Khashiyev and Akayeva 24/02/2005 12/1999-01/2000 Chechnya DICP, FIVW, FCA, FDM, PI "205th Brigade from Budenovsk" in investigation file. EHRAC/Memorial HRC 57945/00 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, A had videotape showing interrogation of her son by a Colonel-General. Established he had been Bazorkina 69481/01 06/01/2006 02/02/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQA, DQW detained and handed over to servicemen from GUIN for transportation to pre-trial detention SJI UD, Art: 13: RR centre Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Estamirov and others 60272/00 12/10/2006 05/02/2000 Chechnya DQW, FCA, FIVW, FICP Russian military, OMON SJI 13: RR Art 2: DIS, EJE, Unconfirmed, described as "a group of servicemen, wearing camouflage uniforms and masks Luluyev and others 69480/01 09/11/2006 03/06/2000 Chechnya NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art PI, DDIE, FIVW, DICP SJI and armed with machine guns". 5: UD; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 17/12/2000 (2nd victim), 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; Unconfirmed. "Russian military" in case of first second victim. "20 servicemen in military Imakayeva 7615/02 09/11/2006 Chechnya PI, FICP SJI 02/06/2002 (1st victim) Art 8: RH; Art 13: camouflage uniforms, some of them wearing masks. RR Sheydayev 65859/01 07/12/2006 21/12/1999 Art 3: AT n/a Derbent Town Police Art 3: AIT, NECI; Art 5: UD, NJR, ADR, Chitayev and Chitayev 59334/00 18/01/2007 12/04/2000 Chechnya FIVW Achkhoy-Martan VOVD SJI NRPT, NC; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art A had videotape showing apprehension of husband by military servicemen. G did not contest Baysayeva 74237/01 05/04/2007 02/03/2000 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art DQA, DQW, FIVW that husband arrested by armed men in camouflage uniform nor did they suggest they belonged SJI 13: RR to illegal paramilitaries. Art 2: DIS, EJE, Akhmadova and PI, DQW, DQA FICP, FCA, Unconfirmed, "a group of armed people" wearing "milk grey uniforms" in applicant's account. 40464/02 10/05/2007 12/03/2001 Chechnya NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art SJI Sadulayeva FICP Placed victim in APC. Two other APCs and one UAV also seen at scene. 5: UD, Art 13: RR Jan-Feb 2000; 21 May 2003 Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 57953/00, Unconfirmed, "about 20 men in military uniforms, some wearing balaclava masks" in applicant's Bitiyeva and X 21/06/2007 (1st applicant), April 2004; 17 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art FICP, FCA EHRAC/Memorial HRC 37392/03 account. May 2004 (2nd applicant) 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "armed men wearing camouflage uniforms of the Russian armed forces and masks Alikhadzhiyeva 68007/01 05/07/2007 17/05/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, PI, DQA, DQW, FICP using two APCs, UAZ vehicles and helicopters" in applicant's account. Took victim and five EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR others either to meat-packing factory or a grain elevator.

Magomadov and Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 68004/01 12/07/2007 02/10/2000 Chechnya PI, FQW, FIVW, DICP Federal Security Service ("FSB"). EHRAC/Memorial HRC Magomadov 3: ADA; Art 5: UD

57941/00, Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Musayev and others 58699/00, 26/07/2007 05/02/2000 Chechnya DQW, DICP, FDM, PI OMON (from St. Petersburg and Ryazan region) EHRAC/Memorial HRC 3: AIT; Art 13: RR 60403/00 Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. APC in which victims taken away bore number Musayeva and others 74239/01 26/07/2007 08/08/2000 Chechnya 3: VIT; Art 5: UD; Art FICP, PI, FCA, FIVW, FQW 108, belonged to Main Intelligence Department of the Ministry of Defence of Russia. Events Lawyer 13:RR unfolded in course of "sweeping" operation in the vicinity of Gekhi. Art 2: ALR, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "federal forces" in applicant's account. Identified as " '205th Brigade' " in Goncharuk 58643/00 04/10/2007 19/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FQW, FIVW, FDM EHRAC/Memorial HRC 13: RR investigation documentation. Art 2: ALR, SHL, 205th Brigade (stationed in Budenovsk), OMON (from North Western region) identified as Makhauri 58701/00 04/10/2007 21/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, DICP, FDM, DDIE EHRAC/Memorial HRC NECI; Art 13: RR "suspect units". Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Goygova 74240/01 04/10/2007 Jan-00 Chechnya DQW, FIVW, FCA, FICP, FBR 205th Brigade, OMON SJI 13: RR Art 3: NECI; Art 13: Medov 1573/02 08/11/2007 23/01/2000 Chechnya LI, F/DQI OMON (from Rostov-on-Don region) Lawyer RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Kukayev 29361/02 15/11/2007 26/11/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA, NECI, Art FQW, FIVW, DICP Federal servicemen carrying out a "sweeping up" operation. EHRAC/Memorial HRC 13: RR Art 6: DAC, PNEJ, Khamidov 72118/01 15/11/2007 13/10/1999 Chechnya F/ACC; Arts 8 and n/a Tambov consolidated police units of the Ministry of the Interior. Memorial HRC A1P1: TOAE, DIAE Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Khamila Isayeva 6846/02 15/11/2007 29/04/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; FQW, FIVW, FICP Unconfirmed, about 20 soldiers who arrived in two APCs. SJI Art 13: RR Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Tangiyeva 57935/00 29/11/2007 11/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FCA, FICP OMON, Russian military- soldiers of the "205th Brigade". EHRAC/Memorial HRC 13: RR

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Art 2: NECI; Art 13: PI, FIVW, DQW, FCA, FBR, Zubayrayev 67797/01 10/01/2008 17/09/2000 Chechnya Spetsnaz. - RR DDIE, FICP Ingushetia Art 2: SHL & NECI, Khatsiyeva and others 5108/02 17/01/2008 06/08/2000 (border with FBR, FCA, FIVW, FICP, PI Russian military SJI Art 13: RR Chechnya) Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "a group of eight armed men wearing camouflage uniforms and masks and Aziyevy 77626/01 20/03/2008 24/09/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA, AIT; Art 5: PI, DQW, FIVW, FICP carrying torches" in applicant's account. Believed to be Russian military (spoke Russian, moved SJI UD, Art 13: RR around freely during curfew). Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Approximately 20 federal servicement in six APCs, armed, all save two masked, spoke Russian Kaplanova 7653/02 29/04/2008 12/05/2001 Chechnya PI, FIVW, DICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC 5: UD, Art 13: RR without accent. Allegedly demanded gold and money. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "about twenty armed men in camouflage uniforms…All but three of them were 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, wearing camouflage masks" in applicant's account. Convoy in which victims believed to have Betayev and Betayeva 37315/03 29/05/2008 25/04/2003 Chechnya PI, DQW, FICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 8: RH; Art 13: disappeared reportedly passed through military checkpoint without stopping. "Unidentified RR persons armed with machine guns " in Government's account. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "twenty men wearing blue uniforms and balaclava masks" in applicant's account. Gekhayeva and others 1755/04 29/05/2008 15/05/2003 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, DQW, FICP SJI Spoke Russian, believed to be Russian military. Art 13: RR Unconfirmed, "a group of five men wearing camouflage uniforms…[t]hree of [whom] were Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art wearing balaclava masks" in applicant's account. Believed to be federal military/security Ibragimov and others 34561/03 29/05/2008 28/01/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, DQA, DQW, FICP servicement (spoke Russian without accent, Slavic facial features, moved freely during curfew). SJI Art 13: RR "Unidentified persons armed with machine guns and wearing camouflage uniforms and masks" in Government's account. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Urus-Martan District Department of Federal Sangariyeva 1839/04 29/05/2008 23/01/2003 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI Security Service ("FSB") implicated. Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. APCs bearing hull numbers 569, 889 and 1252 Utsayeva and others 29133/03 29/05/2008 02/06/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA, VIT; Art 5: PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP seen at scene of disappearance. Hull number of UAZ vehicle at scene of disappearance also SJI UD; Art 13: RR partially seen- 344. Disappearances took place amidst "sweeping" operation in Novye Atagi. Unconfirmed, "about forty servicemen…Two of three of them were wearing masks" in applicant's Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art account. Victim placed in APC, taken to military base and subsequenly to unkown destination. Atabayeva and Others 26064/02 12/06/2008 03/05/2001 Chechnya PI,DQA, DQW, FICP SJI 5: UD, Art 13: RR "Unidentified persons in masks and camouflage uniforms carrying machine guns" in Government's account. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, men armed with machine guns who spoke Russian without an accent- presumed Elmurzayev and others 3019/04 12/06/2008 09/07/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, FIVW, FQW, DQW, FICP SJI to be Russian military. Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Isigova and others 6844/02 26/06/2008 03/07/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; DICP, FIVW, DQW, DDIE "Federal armed forces" in the context of a large scale "sweeping" operation in Sernovodsk. SJI Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, "about 50 servicemen in camouflage uniforms" in applicant's account. Believed to 3: VIT, NECI, ADA; FQA, FQW, FIVW, PI, DDIE, Musayeva 12703/02 03/07/2008 05/02/2000 Chechnya have been OMON from St. Petersburg implementing a "sweeping" operation in Zabolotny Lane, EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 5: UD; Art 13: FDM Southern . RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 3: AIT, NECI, ADA; FICP, PI, FQW, DQW, FIVW, Unconfirmed: described as "a group of men in camouflage uniforms". Arrived in a Ural military Ruslan Umarov 12712/02 03/07/2008 27/05/2000 Chechnya EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 5: UD; Art 13: DDIE vehicle. UAZ vehicle with the number 469 seen at time of disappearance. RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be "federal servicemen." Took victims to Federal Security Service Akhiyadova 32059/02 03/07/2008 13/02/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, DQA, DQW, FICP SJI Base. Armed, wore camouflage uniforms and masks. 45th Regiment in Government's account. Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Men armed with machine guns and grenades and wearing camouflage uniforms. All but one of Takhayeva and others 23286/04 18/09/2008 13/11/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, F/DQA, FQW, DICP those who entered the home were masked. The unmasked one was of Slavic appearance. Spoke SJI Art 13 RR in unaccented Russian. Believed to be Russian military. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Akhmadova and Akhmadov 20755/04 25/09/2008 29/09/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, PI Possible involvement of FSB. Lawyer UD, Art: 13: RR Art 2: SHL & NECI, Killed by shell, allegedly from artillery positioned on Terskiy mountain range where Russian Mezhidov 67326/01 25/09/2008 05/10/1999 Chechnya DICP, FCA, DDIE, FICP, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR troops based Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 12713/02, Lyanova and Aliyeva 02/10/2008 28/06/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FICP, FIVW, FDIE Obron-8 (subdivision of military unit 3723), Pskov OMON Memorial HRC, SJI 28440/03 Art 13: RR Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "ten armed men wearing Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art camouflage uniforms…[who] identified themselves as officers of law enforcement agencies Khalidova and others 22877/04 02/10/2008 29/11/2002 Ingushetia 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FICP SJI and…took [the applicants] away in a grey UAZ vehicle with registration number 241 06 RUS" in Art 13: RR applicants' account. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Special reconnaissance unit no. 352 of the interior troops under the command of Major General Rasayev and Chankayeva 38003/03 02/10/2008 25/12/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, DQW, DICP SJI B conducting a security raid in Chechen-Aul Art 13: RR Art 2: FDM & NECI, Albekov and others 68216/01 09/10/2008 23/10/2000 Chechnya DICP, DCA, FICP Military EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Unmasked servicemen described by witnesses as "contract soldiers", two APCs and a Ural truck Zulpa Akhmatova and 13569/02, 09/10/2008 14/01/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA; Art 5: PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP seen at scene of disappearance (1st 2 victims). Servicemen in an APC who pursued 3rd victim's SJI others 13573/02 UD; Art 13: RR car, rammed it then beat him when he exited (3rd victim). Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Yusupova and Zaurbekov 22057/02 09/10/2008 17/10/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, FDIE, FICP Oktyabrskiy VOVD SJI Art 13: RR Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Magomed Musayev and 8979/02 23/10/2008 10/12/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, PI, FIVW, DQW, FICP Russian military in Raduzhnoye and Pobedinskoye in the Grozny district SJI others Art 13: RR

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Applicants believed them to be Russian federal servicemen. Followed victim's footsteps and Shaipova and others 10796/04 06/11/2008 09/04/2003 Chechnya Art 2: NECI DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Lawyer were led to town centre where military commander's office of Urus-Martan district located Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be servicemen of the Russian federal military. Described as "around PI, FIVW, DCA, DQA, DQW, Khadzhialiyev and others 3013/04 06/11/2008 14/12/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD, eight unidentified men in camouflage uniforms…armed with machine guns… [who] spoke SJI FICP, DDIE Art 13: RR Russian without an accent" in applicant's account. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Letter from Ministry of Interior of Ingushetia stated arrested by department of the interior of Tsurova and others 29958/04 06/11/2008 26/04/2003 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FICP, PI SJI town of Malgobek UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Magamadova and 33185/04 06/11/2008 14/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FICP, PI Servicemen of Russian federal forces driving APCs SJI Iskhanova UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Akhmadov and others 21586/02 14/11/2008 27/10/2001 Chechnya PI, DCA, FICP Air Forces of the Russian Federation ("VVS RF") SJI 13: RR

Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "three armed men wearing Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Gandaloyeva 14800/04 04/12/2008 17/09/2003 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP camouflage uniforms" who spoke unaccented Russian in applicant's account. Omon FROM Tver Lawyer 13: RR implicated. Art 2: DIS &NECI, Applicant had been told by military commander of Urus-Martan district that had been taken Bersunkayeva 27233/03 04/12/2008 13/06/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FQW, FICP, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC away by FSB officers UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: ALR, SHL, Russian federal armed forces, Leninskiy ROVD (applicant injured in context of shelling in Umayeva 1200/03 04/12/2008 23/01/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC NECI; Art 13: RR Grozny) Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military due to use of unaccented Russian and ability to Musikhanova and others 27243/03 04/12/2008 09/11/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, FDIE, FICP SJI circulate freely during curfew. Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art A group of armed men wearing masks and camouflage uniforms who spoke unaccented Russian. PI, FIVW, DQA, FQW, FDIE, Askharova 13566/02 04/12/2008 18/05/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; Believed to be Russian military. A "sweeping operation" was taking place in Serzhen-Yurt at the SJI DICP Art 13: RR material time according to the applicant.

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Ilyasova and others 1895/04 04/12/2008 15/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FICP, PI Servicemen wearing masks and uniforms who drove an APC SJI UD, Art 13: RR

Tagirova and others 20580/04 04/12/2008 07/02/2003 Chechnya Art 2: NECI DICP, PI, FICP Abducted by military servicemen driving UAZ vehicle SJI Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Akhmadova and others 3026/03 04/12/2008 06/03/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, DQW, DICP Russian military at the permanent checkpoint at Kirov-Yurt (AKA Tezvan) SJI Art 13: RR Art 2: NECI, Art 6 Trapeznikova 21539/02 11/12/2008 06/01/2000 Chechnya DCA, FICP, DQW Not known Lawyer DEJ, A1P1: DEJ Art 2: DIS & NECI, DICP, DQW, DDIE, FQW, Nasukhanova and others 5285/04 18/12/2008 03/02/2003 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: Armed and camouflaged men who arrived in APCs and Ural military vehicles SJI FICP, PI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Art 3: ADA, Art 5: Abdulkadyrova and others 27180/03 08/01/2009 08/09/2002 Chechnya DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Officers of the FSB EHRAC/Memorial HRC UD, Art 8: DIAE, Art 13: RR; A1P1 Art 2: EJE, Pos Ob, Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Applicants describe behaviour of captors as being 22/10/2002, 23/10/2002, Shakhgiriyeva and Others 27251/03 08/01/2009 Chechnya NECI; Art 5: UD; Art PI, DQW, FICP consistent with carrying on a security operation (checking documents, talking Russian among SJI 03/11/2002 13: RR themselves etc.) Art 2: EJE, DIS, Arzu Akhmadova and PI, FIVW, FQW, FQA, FICP, Federal military officers under the command of General Borisov conducting a sweeping 13670/03 08/01/2009 06/03/2012 Chechnya NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art SJI others DCA operation in the of Stariye Atagi from 6-11 March 2002 5: UD; Art 13: RR Art 2: EJE & NECI, State servicemen from internal troops of Ministry of Interior and Ministry of Defence, officials of Dzhamayeva and others 43170/04 08/01/2009 06/03/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: FCA, FQW, FICP, PI SJI Ministry of Interior and the FSB UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: EJE & NECI, Dangayeva and Taramova 1896/04 08/01/2009 23/10/2002 Chechnya FIVW, PI State servicemen SJI Art 13: RR Zakriyeva and others 20583/04 08/01/2009 25/06/2002 Chechnya Art 2: NECI DICP, DQW, DDIE, FICP, PI Armed men travelling in APC SJI Art 2: Pos Ob, NECI; Medova 25385/04 15/01/2009 17/06/2004 Ingushetia Art 5: UD; Art 13: PI, FIVW, FICP, DDIE Federal Security Service ("FSB") EHRAC/Memorial HRC RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Applicants told that their son had been kept in the Urus-Martan temporary dept of interior Abdurzakova and DICP, DQA, DQW, FIVW, FICP, 35080/04 15/01/2009 25/10/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: (VOVD) and then transferred to the military commander's office of Urus-Martan District and that SJI Abdurzakov PI UD, Art 13: RR head of FSB had been involved. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Sambiyev and Pokayeva 38693/04 22/01/2009 10/04/2004 Chechnya Art 5: UD, Art 13: PI State servicemen in camouflage who deployed APCs and Ural vehicles SJI RR

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Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military due to use of unaccented Russian, Slavic Zaurbekova and 3: NECI, AIT; Art 5: 27183/03 22/01/2009 11/02/2003 Chechnya PI, FIVW, DQW, FICP appearance, use of military vehicles/equipment and ability to move freely in Grozny during SJI Zaurbekova UD; Art 8 & A1P1: curfew RH, PEP; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Applicants said men identified themselves as belonging to Main Intelligence Department of Dolsayev and others 10700/04 22/01/2009 21/10/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI SJI Ministry of Defence UD, Art 13: RR Art 3: AIT, NECI; Art Khadisov and Tsechoyev 21519/02 05/02/2009 09/11/2001 Ingushetia PI, FIVW, DQW Military unit of the border troops stationed near to Verkhny Alkun, Sunzhenskiy District SJI 5: UD; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, One of applicants was informed the unit who apprehended them at the checkpoint was a special Khaydayeva and others 1848/04 05/02/2009 09/06/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DQW, FICP, PI SJI unit of the Interior Ministry UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Idalova and Idalov 41515/04 05/02/2009 22/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQA, FIVW, FICP, PI Armed camouflaged men travelling in APC, IBV and Ural vehicle SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Query whether the personnel of the Novosibirsk OMON were involved. Government said Ayubov 7654/02 12/02/2009 19/01/2000 Chechnya Art 5: UD, Art 13: DICP, PI, DQW EHRAC/Memorial HRC involvement had not been established. RR, A1P1: DP Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be a mixture of Russian and Chechen military servicemen (masked, Meshayeva and others 27248/03 12/02/2009 16-17/12/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, DQA, FQW, FICP camouflage uniforms, used military vehicles, spoke mixture of Russian and Chechen). Events SJI Art 13: RR took place in Martan Chu. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Bantayeva and others 20727/04 12/02/2009 02/01/2003 Chechnya Art 3:ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FICP, PI Unidentified men in masks and camouflage uniforms SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Around thirty masked men in blue camouflage uniforms. Believed to be Russian military (armed Astamirova and others 27256/03 26/02/2009 05/08/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI with machine guns and spoke unaccented Russian) Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Sagayev and others 4573/04 26/02/2009 30/08/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DQW, PI Russian servicemen, possibly from FSB SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Vagapova and Zubirayev 21080/05 26/02/2009 21/12/2004 Chechnya Art 3: ADA. Art 5: DICP, DQA, FIVW, FICP Individual taken at same time was taken by policemen to ROVD SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: EJE & NECI, Servicemen of Russian armed forces, possibly of unit from DON-100 regiment who had been Khalitova 39166/04 05/03/2009 11/09/2000 Chechnya FIVW, PI, FICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR stationed nearby Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military based on: unaccented Russian use of captors, Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 27238/03, Various from December 2001 to PI, FIVW, DQW, DQA, DDIE, Russian markings on clothing ("USSR" imprint from sole of boot seen in snow by some Dzhambekova and others 12/03/2009 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art SJI 35078/04 March 2002 FICP applicants after apprehension of 2nd victim, Slavic appearance of unmasked captors etc. 13: RR Disappearances were a series of separate incidents in the Urus-Martan district of Grozny. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Khadayeva and others 5351/04 12/03/2009 19/04/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, PI Applicant believed Urus-Martan District FSB to be involved SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Elsiyev and others 21816/03 12/03/2009 02/09/2002 and 03/09/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, PI, DQW Russian military troops under command of General Studenikin SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Dzhabayeva 13310/04 02/04/2009 10/03/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5 : UD; PI, FIVW, DQW, FICP Officers of the Oktyabrskiy Temporary Office of the Interior ("VOVD"), Khanty-Mansiysk OMON Lawyer Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "a large group of more than twenty 3: VIT, NECI, ADA; Dokuyev and others 6704/03 02/04/2009 14/02/2001 Chechnya PI, DQW, FIVW, DQA, DICP uniformed armed soldiers, most of whom were wearing masks" in applicant's account. Two APCs SJI Art 5: UD; Art 13: and a Ural truck with obscured licence plates seen at scene of disappearance RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, DICP, DQA, DQW, FIVW, FICP, Department of Interior of Shali District (VOVD) confirmed victim taken away by military Saydaliyeva and others 41498/04 02/04/2009 16/04/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: SJI PI servicemen UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Dzhabrailova 1586/05 09/04/2009 10/04/2003 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DDIE, FIVW, FICP, PI Armed men in masks and camouflage uniforms driving UAZ Lawyer UD Art 2: DIS & NECI, Malsagova and others 27244/03 09/04/2009 07/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, PI State servicemen SJI UD, Art: 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Dokayev and others 16629/05 09/04/2009 10/12/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FICP, PI Russian military servicemen in APCs and UAZ SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Gaziyeva and others 15439/05 09/04/2009 08/02/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Internal troops of Ministry of Interior SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Khachukayev 28148/03 23/04/2009 05/02/2003 Chechnya Art 5: UD, Art 13: DICP, DQW, DCA, PI Unidentified men in masks and camouflage uniforms, most likely Russian military servicemen Lawyer RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Applicant believed abductors had been under command of district military commander General Alaudinova 32297/05 23/04/2009 08/11/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FICP, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC G

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Art 2: DIS & NECI, Bitiyeva and others 36156/04 23/04/2009 27/03/2004 Chechnya Art 5: UD, Art 13: FQW, FCA, PI Military vehicles used, possibly SOBR SJI RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Abducted men concluded from sound of helicopters that had been brought to federal military Israilova and others 4571/04 23/04/2009 30/12/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI SJI base in Khankala UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Art 3: AIT, NECI, Applicant told that son taken by servicemen of internal troops of Ministry of Interior and held at Gakiyev and Gakiyeva 3179/05 23/04/2009 30/11/2003 Chechnya FIVW, FICP, PI SJI ADA, Art 5: UD, Art Khankala base 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Turluyeva and Khamidova 12417/05 14/05/2009 25/10/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FQW, FICP, PI Russian armed forces took them to local Tsentoroy military base. Lawyer UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: SHL & NECI, Taysumov and others 21810/03 14/05/2009 07/09/2002 Chechnya FIVW, PI, FICP Russian military SJI Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, 15441/05 and Art 3: VT, NECI, Basayeva and others 28/05/2009 06/07/2002 Chechnya DICP, FIVW, FQW, PI Applicants had info that victims had been seen in building of ROVD SJI 20731/04 ADA, Art 5: UD, Art 13: RR Khumaydov and Two UAZ vehicles with armed camouflaged men followed the Gazel that had allegedly taken the 13862/05 28/05/2009 16/12/2002 Chechnya Art 2: NECI DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI SJI Khumaydov victim Art 2: DIS & NECI, DICP, DQW, DQA, FDIE, FIVW, Third applicant taken to same place, military commander's office, told his brother was being Nenkayev and others 13737/03 28/05/2009 08/06/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: SJI FICP, PI taken to prosecutor's office UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Applicants told two of the victims had been taken to the area where the 21st brigade of Russian International Khalitova and others 33264/04 11/06/2009 18/07/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FICP, PI federal troops stationed. Prosecutor sent VOVD request stating that servicemen commanded by Protection Centre UD, Art 13: RR the FSB had shot Aslan Dokayev and Rustam Achkhanov during an attempt to escape arrest Art 2: DIS & NECI, Khasuyeva 28159/03 11/06/2009 30/08/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Servicemen of Urus-Martan power structures SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Applicant's account states Russian military 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art vehicles drove onto applicant's property then house was stormed by around twenty armed, Karimov and others 29851/05 16/06/2009 11/01/2003 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI 8: RH; A1P1: PEP; masked men wearing helmets who spoke unaccented Russian. Code word "Vityaz" was heard Art 13: RR being uttered among the intruders. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, DQW, DDIE, Around 40 to 50 servicemen surrounding home, believed to be Russian servicemen due to Magomadova 2393/05 18/06/2009 12/04/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; EHRAC/Memorial HRC FCA, FICP Slavic appearance of, and use of unaccented Russian by, 7 or 8 who stormed the building. Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, DICP, DQW, FDIE, FIVW, Other people abducted with the victim said they were held at Urus-Martan District military Pukhigova 15440/05 02/07/2009 12/02/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: Lawyer FICP, PI commander's office UD, Art 13: RR Yusupova and others 5428/05 09/07/2009 15/11/2002 Chechnya Art 2: NECI DICP, FQA, FIVW, FICP, PI Last seen in front of military prosecutor's office SJI Art 2: DIS & NECI, Military unit no. 6779 beat him and then a group from the temporary dept of interior of Urus- Mutsayeva 24297/05 23/07/2009 27/08/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FQW, FICP, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC Martan District (VOVD) came and took him away UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "a group of about thirty armed men Magomadova and Others 33933/05 17/09/2009 09/02/2003 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP wearing camouflage uniforms" in applicant's account. Applicant described how "those...not SJI 13: RR wearing masks were of Slavic appearance" and how the men "spoke Russian without an accent" Around thirty or forty armed men who spoke unaccented Russian, believed to be Russian military. While driving within 4km of the village of Galashki the victim's vehicle was suddenly Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art subjected to heavy gunfire. Helicopters were seen overhead. Concerned villagers who heard the Zabiyeva and others 35052/04 17/09/2009 10/06/2003 Ingushetia 3: AIT, VIT, ADA; Art PI, FIVW, FQW,FICP, DDIE SJI shooting decided to investigate and came across the men in a forest 2km from the shooting site. 13: RR Victim's body was discovered 20m from place where villagers encountered armed men the next day. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Asadulayeva and others 15569/06 17/09/2009 14/01/2004 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Military men in grey uniforms with many pockets took him from the Ministry of the Interior SJI UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Art 3: ADA, Art 5: Rezvanov and Rezvanova 12457/05 24/09/2009 10/12/2002 Chechnya DICP, FICP, FIVW, PI Identified themselves as servicemen of dept of interior of Zavodskoy District Lawyer UD, Art 8: SP, A1P1: SP, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art Babusheva and others 33944/05 24/09/2009 04/02/2003 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, DDIE, FICP OMON (from Perm Region, Russia) SJI 8: RH; A1P1: PEP; Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Amanat Ilyasova and 27001/06 01/10/2009 11/08/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FQW, PI Servicemen of Russian federal forces - possible connection to Shali department of FSB SJI others UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Vakhayeva and others 1758/04 29/10/2009 01/08/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, DDIE, FICP, PI Urus-Martan Temporary Department of the Interior of the Chechen Republic Lawyer UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Satabayeva 21486/06 29/10/2009 23/02/2000 Chechnya Art 5: UD, Art 13: DICP, DQW, DDIE, FICP, PI Servicemen of FSB Lawyer RR

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Art 2: DIS & NECI, Khantiyeva and others 43398/06 29/10/2009 04/12/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FQW, PI Unidentified men in masks and camouflage uniforms SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; Armed masked men in camouflage uniforms who drove an APC. Believed to be Russian military Ismailov and others 33947/05 26/11/2009 13/01/2003 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI Art 8: RFL; Art 13: as they spoke unaccented Russian RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Ustarkhanova 35744/05 26/11/2009 07/01/2003 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Unidentified servicemen SJI UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Dubayev and 30613/05 and 11/02/2010 14/03/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FICP, PI Infantry regiment no 245 offered amnesty, took them to district dept of FSB EHRAC/Memorial HRC Bersnukayeva 30615/05 UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Art 3: AIT, NECI, International Guluyeva and others 1675/07 11/02/2010 13/07/2002 Chechnya FIVW, FICP, PI Servicemen in camouflage, applicant believed belonged to military ADA, Art 5: UD, Art Protection Centre 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, belived to be Russian military. Applicant states "around thirty armed men wearing 3: VIT, NECI, ADA; camouflage uniforms and masks got out of the vehicles... broke down the door of the Aliyevs' International Aliyeva 1901/05 18/02/2010 29/10/2002 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FDIE, FICP Art 5: UD; Art 13: flat and entered. The men did not identify themselves but the applicant believed that they Protection Centre RR belonged to the Russian military". Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Believed to be Russian military. About thirty or forty armed men of Slavic appearance who spoke Iriskhanova and Iriskhanov 35869/05 18/02/2010 19/06/2002 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD, Art PI, FIVW, FQW, DQW, DICP SJI unaccented Russian. One officer was addressed as "Lyekha" by the men during the incident. 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "[f]ive to eight masked men in Mutsolgova and others 2952/06 01/04/2010 18/12/2003 Ingushetia 3: ADA, Art 5: UD,; PI, FIVW, DQW, DDIE, FICP camouflage uniforms ...[who were] armed with AK assault rifles and spoke unaccented Russian" EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR in applicant's account. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "a group of armed men in International Mudayevy 33105/05 08/04/2010 29/01/2003 Chechnya 3: NECI; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP camouflage uniforms and masks" in applicant's account. Victims taken to Nadterechniy FSB Protection Centre Art 13: RR headquarters and Nadterechniy ROVD. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Tasatayevy 37541/05 08/04/2010 01/06/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FQW, FICP, PI District military commander of Urus-Martan Lawyer UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Russian servicemen (Urus-Martan district). One victim also seen in village of Tangi-Chu, at the Abayeva and others 37542/05 08/04/2010 13/09/2000 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, DQA, FICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC HQ of infantry regiment no. 245 of the West group of federal forces. 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Sadulayeva 38570/05 08/04/2010 09/12/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FQW, FICP, PI Urus-Martan district military commander EHRAC/Memorial HRC UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: Pos Ob, NECI; Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "approximately fifty men in two International Abdurashidova 32968/05 08/04/2010 14/03/2005 Dagestan A1P1: PEP; Art 13: FQA, FQW, FIVW APCs and a white …Niva car" in applicant's account. Protection Centre RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, International Umalatov and others 8345/05 08/04/2010 15/10/2002 Chechnya DICP, FICP FSB office for Nadterechny district and Znamenskoye Art 3: ADA, Art 5: Protection Centre Art 2: EJE, DIS,SHL, Military Unit 23132 (death of 1st applicant during shelling), "federal military servicemen" Seriyevy 20201/05 08/04/2010 26/12/2002, 01/06/2004 Chechnya PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI NECI; Art 3: AIT, Art (abduction of 2nd applicant) Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Khatuyeva 12463/05 22/04/2010 02/08/2004 Ingushetia PI, FQW, FIVW, FICP Federal Security Service ("FSB") EHRAC/Memorial HRC 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "fifteen to twenty armed men in Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art camouflage uniforms without insignia…[a]ll but five of [whom] were wearing masks" in Mutayeva 43418/06 22/04/2010 19/01/2004 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, DQW, FIVW, FICP SJI applicant's account. Applicant noted that those not masked were of Slavic appearance and that Art 13: RR all of the men spoke Russian without an accent. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Fifteen to twenty armed men in camouflage uniform who were of Slavic appearance and spoke Tupchiyeva 37461/05 22/04/2010 03/01/2003 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, DICP SJI unaccented Russian and moved freely during a curfew. Believed to be Russian military. 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian servicemen. Applicant's account describes how "over Shakhabova 39685/06 12/05/2010 23/11/2002 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, DQW, FICP fiteen armed masked men in camouflage uniforms broke into the house", spoke in Russian and SJI 13: RR conducted a search of the house.

Art 2: EJE, NECI; Art Russian military servicemen in an APC in a wheat field traveling from Gekhi in the direction of Suleymanova 9191/06 12/05/2010 17/05/2000 Chechnya FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI 13: RR Roshni-Chu. Opened fire upon vehicle in which victims 1-3 were traveling.

Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, FCA, FICP, A group of armed men in camouflage uniforms who arrived in GAZ vehicles and a khaki-coloured Dzhabrailovy 3678/06 20/05/2010 16/02/2003 Chechnya 3: NECI; Art 5: UD; SJI DDIE military UAZ car and who spoke unaccented Russian. Believed to be Russian military. Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Art 3: VIT, NECI & One of officers identified himself as major of Main Intelligence Department of Ministry of Khutsayev and others 16622/05 27/05/2010 16/12/2001 Chechnya DICP, DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC ADA, Art 5: UD, Art Defence 8: IS, Art 13: RR, Art 2: DIS & NECI, Alapayevy 39676/06 03/06/2010 26/12/2004 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: FDM, FQW, FICP, PI Servicemen in grey UAZ and white Gazel SJI UD, Art 13: RR

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Art 2: DIS & NECI, Ilyasova 26966/06 10/06/2010 12/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, DDIE, FICP, PI Applicant told that sons detained at Achkhoy-Martanovskiy District Dept of Interior EHRAC/Memorial HRC UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Vakayeva and others 2220/05 10/06/2010 15/03/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, PI Involvement of military personnel, possibly United Group Alignment SJI UD, Art 13: RR

A group or armed masked men. Applicant did not witness apprehension in Sleptsovskaya but Tovsultanova 26974/06 17/06/2010 14/06/2004 Ingushetia Art 2: NECI PI, FIVW, FICP Lawyer saw victim being driven in a convoy of cars at high speed towards Chechen/Ingush border.

Art2: DIS, NECI; 11354/05 and Batayev and others 17/06/2010 8/01/2000 & 18/09/2000 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art 5: DICP, DQA, FQW, PI Unidentified State Servicemen Lawyer 32952/06 UD; Art 13: NECI

Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Armed military servicemen, some of them masked, those not masked of Slavic appearance, who Gelayevy 20216/07 15/07/2010 27/02/2000 Chechnya 3: VIT, AIT, ADA; Art PI, DDIE, FIVW, DQW, FICP SJI spoke unaccented Russian. Victim taken to Oktyabrskiy ROVD. 5: UD; Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Key suspicious event (a shooting) not seen by applicant, only heard. When passing the scene Akhmatkhanovy 20147/07 22/07/2010 02/04/2003 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP shortly thereafter, applicant saw 4 APCs and about ten Russian military servicement with SJI 13: RR camouflage uniforms bearing white stripes on the sleeves. Art 2: DIS & NECI, Serviceman of military commander's office told applicant that vehicle relative was taken away in Benuyeva and others 8347/05 22/07/2010 24/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DQA, DQW, DDIE, FICP, PI SJI belonged to the dept of interior of Urus-Martan District UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art 27315/06, Merzhuyeva and others 07/10/2010 23/11/2003, 12/05/2002 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI. FIVW, DQW, FICP Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military Lawyer 27449/06 13: RR

Art 3: AT & NECI, Sadykov 41840/02 07/10/2010 05/03/2000 Chechnya A1P1: RP, Art 13: DQW, DCA, PI, FICP Servicemen at Oktyabrskiy VOVD SJI RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Applicant had information that perpetrators were servicemen of regiment no. 531 of Russian Sasita Israilova and others 35079/04 28/10/2010 13/02/2003 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, PI, DQW SJI Ministry of Interior and under command of Mr Ruslan Amirov UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: EJE & NECI, DICP, DDIE, FICP, FIVW, Amuyeva and others 17321/06 25/11/2010 07/02/2000 Chechnya Military servicemen of federal forces EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 13: RR FQW, FICP

Art 2: EJE, NECI, Abuyeva and others 27065/05 02/12/2010 04/02/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, DQW, DICP Russian military EHRAC/Memorial HRC SHL; Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS, NECI, Art Dzhabirailova and 3: AIT, NECI, ADA, 15563/06 02/12/2010 19/02/2003 Chechnya DQA, DIVW State servicemen who deployed UAZ vehicles SJI Dzhabrailova Art 5: UD, Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Described as "around fifteen to twenty armed Tumayeva and others 9960/05 16/12/2010 19/09/2004 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP, FBR SJI men in camouflage uniforms" in applicant's account. 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, DICP, DQA, DQW, FIVW, FICP, Taymuskhanovy 11528/07 16/12/2010 30/12/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: Apprehended by special task force units of the Chechen Republic and Russian federal troops SJI PI UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Malika Dzhamayeva and 26980/06 21/12/2010 16/09/2004 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DQW, FDM Military vehicles used Lawyer others UD, Art: 13: RR

Udayeva and Yusupova 36542/05 21/12/2010 17/10/2000 Chechnya Art 2: NECI DDIE, FIVW, FICP, PI Died from flying projectile coming from direction of Michurina settlement SJI

Art 3: AT & NECI, Art Gisayev 14811/04 20/01/2011 23/10/2003 Chechnya FQW, FIVW Possibly officers of ORB-2. under direct command of FSB EHRAC/Memorial HRC 5: UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Dudarovy 5382/07 10/02/2011 18/11/2002 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQA, DQW, FICP Servicemen in camouflage and masks driving an ARV and Ural truck SJI UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Nasukhanovy 1572/07 10/02/2011 14/02/2002 Chechnya Art 5: UD, Art 13: DQA, FCA, FICP, PI Head of local administration identified servicemen as belonging to United Group Alignment SJI RR

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Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Khakiyeva, Temergeriyeva 45081/06, Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian servicemen due to: captors' speech in unaccented 17/02/2011 20/08/2002, 27/12/2002 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, DQW, DQA, FICP SJI and others 7820/07 Russian, Slavic appearance of captors. First victim taken to Oktyabrskiy district ROVD. 13: RR

Tsechoyev 39358/05 15/03/2011 23/10/1998 Ingushetia Art 2: NECI FIVW North Caucasus Regional Department for the Fight Against Organised Crime ("the RUBOP") EHRAC/Memorial HRC

Art 2: SHL, NECI; Art Two Russian military SU-25 planes (bombed village of Runnoye, apparently acting upon Esmukhambetov and 3: ADA; Art 8 and 23445/03 29/03/2011 12/09/1999 Dagestan PI, FCA, FICP intelligence that there were large concentrations of terrorist fighters and a training facility EHRAC/Memorial HRC others A1P1: RH; Art 13: located there) RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Murtazovy 11564/07 29/03/2011 18/10/2001 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FICP, PI Armed men identified themselves as servicemen of FSB SJI UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Matayeva and Dadayeva 49076/06 19/04/2011 08/06/2006 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FIVW, FDIE, FICP, PI Victim not seen since summonsed to appear at Leninskiy district prosecutor's office EHRAC/Memorial HRC UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art International Shokkarov and others 41009/04 03/05/2011 06/01/2003 Ingushetia 3 ADA, NECI; Art 5: PI, FIVW, DQW, FICP Sunzhenskiy district department of the interior ("ROVD") Protection Centre UD

17170/04, 20792/04, Art 2: SHL, ALR & 22448/04, Kerimova and others 03/05/2011 02/10/1999 and 19/10/1999 Chechnya NECI, Art 8: DIAE, DICP, FCA, DDIE, FICP, PI Federal military air forces Lawyer 23360/04, A1P1: DIAE 5681/05, 5684/05

Art 2: ALR & NECI, Khamzayev and others 1503/02 03/05/2011 19/10/1999 Chechnya Art 8: DIAE, A1P1: DICP, DDIE, FIVW, FICP, DAC Attack by federal aircraft Lawyer DIAE

Art 2: DIS & NECI, DICP, DDIE, DQW, FIVW, Maayevy 7964/07 24/05/2011 10/03/2003 Chechnya Armed men wearing masks and camouflage uniform who had arrived in UAZ and APC vehicles EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 3: ADA, Art 5: FDM, FICP, PI

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Kidnapped at checkpoint by servicemen, who when stopping others, had identified themselves Malika Alikhadzhiyeva 37193/08 24/05/2011 20/04/2005 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, FDM, FIVW, FICP, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC as FSB UD, Art 13: RR

Art 2: NECI, Art 3: Khambulatova 33488/04 03/06/2011 18/03/2004 Chechnya DICP, FIVW, FICP, PI Servicemen of Naurskiy OVD EHRAC/Memorial HRC VIT

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Federal forces took him away in vehicle later allegedly seen in courtyard of Achkhoy-Martan Gerasiyev and others 28566/07 07/06/2011 05/02/2000 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQW, FICP, PI Lawyer military commander's office UD, Art 13: RR Unconfirmed, believed to be a mixture of Russian and Chechen military servicemen. Described as "about ten armed masked men", "fairly short" in height and "wearing camouflage-coloured Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art jackets and black trousers as well as green camouflage outfits." One spoke unaccented Russian, Vitayeva and others 27459/07 07/06/2011 27/03/2004 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, DQW, FICP SJI all others spoke Russian with an accent. Vehicles matching description of those at scene of Art 13: RR disappearance passed military checkpoint at Khankala and ignored soldiers' efforts to stop them. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. Wore spotted camouflage uniforms, spoke Kosumova and others 27441/07 07/06/2011 21/11/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, DDIE, DICP unaccented Russian and were of Slavic appearance. Ural trucks and APCs seen at time of SJI Art 13: RR disappearance. Unconfirmed. Described as "two men in uniform, who had gotten out of [two cars]" in applicant's account. Approached victim's car (in which applicant was also traveling), took him out at gunpoint to the cars . In applicant's account there were"seven or eight armed men" in the Movsayevy 20303/07 14/06/2011 24/02/2006 Chechnya Art 2: NECI PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI cars, "two or three were in spotted camouflage uniforms, the rest were in black ones. None of them were wearing masks. Some of them were of Slavic appearance. Circumstances of disapperance undisputed by Government.

Nakayev 29846/05 21/06/2011 04/12/1999 Chechnya Art 2: NECI FQW Russian federal forces Lawyer

Art 2: ITD & NECI, DICP, FCA, FQW, FIVW, FICP, Held at Urus-Martan Division of FSB and later transferred to temporary detention facility of Isayev and others 43368/04 21/06/2011 09/05/2004 Chechnya Art 3: VT & NECI, Art EHRAC/Memorial HRC PI ROVD 13: RR

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Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian military. A large group of armend servicemen, some Giriyeva and others 17879/08 21/06/2011 09/01/2002 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, FQW, DICP masked, those not masked of Slavic appearance, spoke unaccented Russian, UAVs seen at SJI Art 13: RR scene of disappearance. Village of Avtury under full control of Russian military at material time. Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art OMON from Yaroslavl region (manning a checkpoint between the town of Urus Martan and the Makharbiyeva and others 26595/08 21/06/2011 24/03/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FIVW, DQW, FQW, DICP SJI village of Gekhi) Art 13:RR Art 2: DIS & NECI, Velkhiyev and others 34085/06 05/07/2011 20/07/2004 Ingushetia Art 3: AT & VT & PI, FQW, FICP Organised Crime Unit at Ministry of Interior of Ingushetia EHRAC/Memorial HRC NECI, Art 5: UD

Art 2: EJE & NECI, Military servicemen in camouflage unifrms and masks, under command of head of Shali Committee Against Khashuyeva 25553/07 19/07/2011 01/08/2003 Chechnya DQW, FIVW, FICP, PI Art 13: RR adminstration Torture

Gubiyev 29309/03 19/07/2011 18/07/2000 Chechnya A1P1: DIAE n/a Russian Ministry of Interior Lawyer

Art 2: DIS & NECI, Vehicle in which he had been placed by abductors later stationed outside Achkhoy-Martin Beksultanova 31564/07 27/09/2011 02/10/2004 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: DICP, DQA, FICP SJI Department of Interior UD, Art 13: RR "A military intelligence group from military unit no. 74814" (government's description- taken Art 2: NECI; Art 5: Tashukhadzhiyev 33251/04 25/10/2011 09/02/1996 Chechnya PI, FICP from brief information submitted to the Court in lieu of any actual documents from the Lawyer AD; Art 13: RR investigation file (para 12)) Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Military Unit 28337-A, manning a checkpoint at Tevzan (AKA Kirov-Yurt) checkpoint (Vedeno Sambiyeva 20205/07 08/11/2011 13/08/2003 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art PI, FIVW, FQW, FICP SJI district) 13: RR A. A. 49097/08 17/01/2012 23/04/2006 Dagestan Art 3: AIT & NECI DICP, FQW, LI, PI RUBOP - Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Edilova 14662/07 28/02/2012 26/08/2001 Chechnya 3: AIT; Art 5: UD; Art DICP, DQW, PI Unconfirmed, believed to be Russian federal servicemen (armed, wore camouflage uniforms) Lawyer 13: RR

Described as "servicemen of one of the military bases of the United Group Alliance" in Art 2: EJE; NECI; Art DQW, FQW, DDIE, FDIE, Government's account. Investigation file states that they belonged to 205th Brigade. The Khamzatov 31682/07 28/02/2012 23/10/2001 Chechnya Lawyer 13: RR FIVW, FCA servicemen opened fire upon a civilian vehicle (without provocation in applicant's account though this is contested), killing the victim.

Art 2:UnK, NECI, Art F/DQA, F/DQW, FVIW, F/DCIP, Inderbiyeva 56765/08 27/03/2012 Early 2000, 10/01/2001 Chechnya Three unidentified servicemen Lawyer 13:RR F/DCA Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art F/DQW, FIVW, PI, F/DDIE, Kadirova 5432/07 27/03/2012 07/11/2001 Chechnya 3:ADA; Art 5: UD; Unidentified men, presumed soldiers. Presumably serving under G.N. SJI F/DICP Art 13: RR

Art 2: UnK, NECI; F/DQA, F/DQW, FIVW, F/DCIP, Police officers of the OMON (special task unit) - unconfirmed, although no evidence to the Akhmadova 25548/07 03/04/2012 19/11/2004 Chechnya Lawyer Art 13: RR PI contrary provided.

Art 2: NECI; A military convoy moving in the vicinity of the corner of Gudermesskaya Street and Stepnoy Estamirova 27365/07 17/04/2012 05/01/2001 Chechnya F/DQW, F/DCIP, F/DBR, PI SJI Art13:RR Lane in - specific individuals not identified

F/DICP, PI, failure to follow-up Shafiyeva 49379/09 03/05/2012 08/09/2009 Dagestan Art 2: NECI Masked men in camoflague uniforms EHRAC/Memorial HRC on information received

Art2: UnK, SHL Damayev 36150/04 29/05/2012 08/04/2004 Chechnya F/DQA, FDQW, FIVW Four SU-25 airplanes (counter terrorism) Memorial HRC NECI

Art2: DIS, UnK Dagestan/ NECI; Art3: ADA; Umarovy 2546/08 12/06/2012 28/4/2007- 15/5/2007 FDQA, FDQW, FIVW, PI Department for the Fight Against Organised Crime (the UBOP), unidentified state agents EHRAC/Memorial HRC Chechnya Art5: UD; Art13:NECI Art2: DIS, UnK NECI; Art3: ADA; Vostok Russian Military Battalion of the Main Intelligence Service (“the GRU”) called Umayevy 47354/07 12/06/2012 14/07/2006 Chechnya FDQA, FDQW, FIVW SJI Art5: UD; “Yamadayevtsy” Art13:NECI Art2: DIS, UnK, F/DQW, FIVW, PI, failure to NECI; Art3: ADA; Ilayeva 27504/07 10/07/2012 04/07/2004 Chechnya inform applicants about Masked men in camoflague uniforms driving APCs SJI Art5: UD; Art13: progress of investigation NECI Art2: DIS, UnK, NECI; Art3: ADA; Vakhayeva 27368/07 10/07/2012 05/10/2001 Chechnya F/DQW, FIVW, F/DDIE, PI Russian servicemen at a military checkpoint SJI Art5: UD; Art13: NECI Art2: DIS, UnK, NECI; Art3: ADA; Between 20 and 25 men in camouflage uniforms; some wearing Slavic masks; alleged by FSB Umarova 25654/08 31/07/2012 29/07/2001 Dagestan FIVW, F/DDIE, PI Lawyer Art5: UD; Art13: to be members of 58th Russian army NECI

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Art3: AT/AIT, NECI; Tangiyev 27610/05 11/12/2012 14/04/2003 Chechnya F/DCA, F/DQW ORB SJI Art6: Unfair trial

Art2: DIS, NECI; Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; Servicemen of the Khasavyurt ROVD and servicemen of the Gudermes (Chechnya) ROVD, Alpatu Israilova 15438/05 18/12/2012 19/10/2004 Dagestan F/DDIE, PI Lawyer Art8: RH; IS; Art13: accompanied by men in camouflage uniforms. Driving one UAZ vehicle and two Zhiguli cars NECI (1) 2944/06, (1) 10/03/02 Art2: DIS, NECI; (2) 332/08 (2) 23/10/02 Art3: ADA, AT/AIT, Armed men in military uniform driving APCs/UAZ vehicles; some wearing masks and carrying Aslakhanova and others 18/12/2012 Chechnya F/DQW, PI, F/DCA SJI/Astreya, Lawyer (3) 42509/10 (3) 25/10/02 VT/IT; Art 5: UD; Art automatic weapons; (4) 50184/07 (4) 01/07/04 13: NECI; Art46

Miltayev 8455/06 15/01/2013 27/07/2001 Chechnya A1P1: SHL, DIAE n/a A tank convoy that was involved in a skirmish with an armed militia group Lawyer

Suleymanov 32501/11 22/01/2013 09/05/2011 Chechnya Art3: NECI F/IVW, F/DQW, F/DDIE, LI Armed men in black uniforms in civilian cars (allegedly Staropromyslovskiy ROVD officers) EHRAC/Memorial HRC

Art2: DIS, NECI; Several men armed with submachineguns; wearing camouflage uniform; camouflage uniforms of Avkhadova 47215/07 14/03/2013 24/04/2001 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DICP, F/DQW, PI the men who entered the house were 'new', whilst uniforms of the men who waited outside were EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art13: NECI 'very dirty'; driving 2 APCs whose registration plates were obscured by mud

Art2: DIS, NECI; Armed Chechen men in masks and military camouflage; driving VAZ-Priora cars; one man Askhabova 54765/09 18/04/2013 05/08/2009 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DQW, F/IVW, LI, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC ostensibly identified himself as a member of the FSB. Art 13: NECI

Art8: Failure to Maskhadova 18071/05 06/06/2013 08/03/2005 Chechnya n/a FSB Interights return body

Art2: DIS, Failure to protect, NECI; Art3: Members of the Urus-Martan ROVD/the External Guards Regiment of the Ministry of the Interior Turluyeva 63638/09 20/06/2013 21/09/2009 Chechnya F/DICP, F/DQW, LI EHRAC/Memorial HRC ADA; Art5: UD; Art of Chechnya 13: NECI Art2: DIS, NECI; Ten men wearing green Russian federal forces uniforms; armed with assault rifles; some spoke Baysultanova 7461/08 04/07/2013 07/05/2000 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DICP, F/DQA, F/DQW, PI SJI Chechen; no military vehicles Art13: NECI

Taziyeva 50757/06 18/07/2013 27/12/2005 Ingushetia Art8: RH, IS - 100 armed men in black masks and military uniform; APCs, 6 or 7 minibuses Lawyers

(1) Men in camouflage uniform wearing masks and black hats (probably ROVD); (1) 11554/07 (1) 20/12/02 Art2: DIS, UnK, (2) Armed servicemen in APCs and Infantry Fighting Vehicles, later detained by military unit (2) 56745/08 (2) 02/02/00 NECI; Art3: ADA; Kaykharova and others 01/08/2013 Chechnya F/IVW, PI 69771; Lawyer, SJI (3) 61274/09 (3) 03/06/00 Art5: UD; Art13: (3) Servicemen driving APCs, a Ural Truck and a UAZ vehicle; (4) 7862/08 (4) 23/02/00 NECI (4) Servicemen staffing a checkpoint.

Fifteen to twenty armed men in masks and camouflage uniform; speaking Russian and Saidova 51432/09 01/08/2013 10/08/2002 Chechnya Art2: NECI F/DQW,PI Lawyer Chechen; driving a UAZ vehicle Art2: UnK, SHL, Abdulkhanov 22782/06 03/10/2013 17/02/00-20/02/00 Chechnya NECI; Art13: NECI, No investigation Russian air forces Lawyer Art2: UnK,NC NECI; Armed men wearing camouflage uniform; one man dressed in civilian clothing who identified Arapkhanovy 2215/05 03/10/2013 20/07/2004 Ingushetia Art3: VT/VIT, NECI; F/DICP, F/DQW, F/DBR SJI himself as an FSB investigator Art8 RH IS Art13 (1) Shali ROVD, Shali FSB, (1) 51534/08 (2) Men in military uniform; (2) 25518/10 (3) Federal forces from 71st Regiment Ministry of Defence, 46th Brigade Ministry of the Interior (3) 28779/10 conducting a sweeping operation; (4) 33175/10 Art2: UnK, DIS; (4) Federal forces; (5) 4401/10 Various dates between 2000- Lawyer, SJI, Memorial Gakayeva and others 10/10/2013 Chechnya Art3: ADA, Art5: UD; F/DQW, PI (5) "Military servicemen"; (6) 47393/10 2005 HRC A1P1: DIAE (6) Masked, armed servicemen in Ural lorry and NIVA car; (7) 54753/10 (7) Masked, armed servicement in UAZ vehicles; (8) 58131/10 (8) Armed men in camouflage uniforms driving an APC; (9) 62207/10 (9) Russian-speaking military servicemen wearing camouflage uniforms and bandanas; (10) 73784/10 (10) Five or six military servicemen wearing camouflage

(1) Men wearing camouflage and masks; driving all-terrain vehicle with no licence plate and tinted windows; (1) 34541/06 (1) 16/03/04 Art2: DIS, NECI; Art (2) Russian-speaking men wearing camouflage, masks and helmets with integrated EHRAC/Memorial Yandiyev and others (2) 1578/07 10/10/2013 (2) 05/12/04 Ingushetia F/DDIE 3: ADA; Art5: UD microphones; driving white minivans (probably FSB); HRC, SJI (3) 43811/06 (3) 29/10/02 (3) Masked men wearing camouflage; speaking unaccented Russian; driving a vehicle with Chechen registration number

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(1) Armed men wearing masks and camouflage; equipped with military radios; (1) 7821/07 (1) 09/01/04 Art2: UnK, NECI; (2) Armed men in camouflage driving APCs and Ural lorries; (2) 10937/10 (2) 30/12/02 Dovletukayev 24/10/2013 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DQW, PI (3) Armed men in camouflage driving an APC; SJI, Lawyers (3) 14046/10 (3) 20/01/01 Art13: NECI (4) Thirty armed men in camouflage driving an armoured Ural lorry whose numberplate was (4) 32782/10 (4) 13/02/01 concealed by mud (1) 26960/06 (1) 09/12/01 Art2: DIS, NECI; (1)-(3) "Well-built" men with spherical helmets and portable radios; driving APCs and UAZ cars; (2) 27926/06 (2) 09/12/01 EHRAC/Memorial Tovbulatova and others 31/10/2013 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DQW, PI (4) Armed men wearing camouflage, driving cars with tinted windows and registration plate that (3) 6371/09 (3) 09/12/01 HRC, Lawyer Art13: NECI belonged to a police unit (4) 6382/09 (4) 09/04/06 Art2: DIS, NECI; Bopayeva 40799/06 07/11/2013 17/04/2000 Chechnya Art3: ADA, Art5: UD; F/DQW, LI Police officers from Oktyabrskiy VOVD SJI/Astreya Art13: NECI

Art8: Failure to Abdulayeva 38552/05 06/01/2014 14/01/2005 Chechnya n/a Federal armed forces, including aerial units SJI, Lawyers return body

(1) Armed men wearing camouflage uniforms and masks, driving APCs and UAZs (1) 53036/08 (1) 14/11/02 (2) Thirty men of Slavic appearance, wearing camouflage and using portable radios (2) 61785/08 (2) 06/06/03 (3) Armed men wearing military uniforms, caps, helmets and shields (3) 8594/09 (3) 17/03/06 (4) Masked men in camouflage uniform (4) 24708/09 (4) 05/11/02 (5) Men carrying pistols, shields and machine guns dressed in camouflage (5) 30327/09 (5) 30/07/02 (6) Masked men carrying shields, wearing camouflage and bullet-proof vests (6) 36965/09 (6) 27/09/02 (7) Camouflaged men armed with short-barelled machine guns, driving vehicles with tinted (7) 61258/09 (7) 08/09/04 windows; (8) 63608/09 (8) 14/02/02 (8) Armed, camouflaged men driving APCs and Ural lorries (9) 67322/09 (9) 04/11/02 Art2: DIS, NECI; (9) Twelve masked men in camouflage driving a minivan EHRAC, SJI, Lawyers, (10) 4334/10 (10) 11/08/03 Pitsayeva and others 09/01/2014 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DQW, F/IVW, PI (10) Masked men wearing camouflage driving APCs, UAZs and Ural lorries Committee Against (11) 4345/10 (11) 09/03/06 Art13: NECI (11) Armed, masked, camouflaged men with radios. Some weapons equipped with silencers Torture (12) 11873/10 (12) 28/10/02 (12) Camouflaged men; some wearing helmets others wearing masks (13) 25515/10 (13) 04/11/01 (13) Masked men in camouflage, carrying torches (identified as FSB agents) (14) 30592/10 (14) 24/04/01 (14) Armed men in military vehicles (15) 32797/10 (15) 09/07/01 (15) Masked men in camouflage with torches; driving APCs (16) 33944/10 (16) 15/06/02 (16) Armed, masked men in an APC without registration plate (17) 36141/10 (17) 04/11/01 (17) Masked men in camouflage driving an APC (18) 52446/10 (18) 26/05/01 (18) Armed, masked men driving an APC without registration plate (19) 62244/10 (19) 25/02/04 (19) Men driving APCs of Slavic and Asian appearance (20) 66420/10 (20) 16/04/00 (20) Thirty camouflaged men with short barelled machine guns driving APCs and UAZs

(1) 38828/10 (1) 06/01/05 (1) Armed men in military uniform in car without registration plate (2) 2543/11 (2) 16/07/03 (2) Military servicemen conducting a sweeping operation in Grozny (3) 2650/11 (3) 04/01/03 Art2: DIS, NECI; (3) Armed, camouflaged men in APCs, UAZs and Ural lorries Akhmatov and others (4) 2685/11 16/01/2014 (4) 14/07/01 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DQW, F/IVW, PI (4) Masked, camouflaged men armed with machine guns SJI, Lawyers (5) 7409/11 (5) 21/07/02 Art13: NECI (5) Ten to fifteen men in camouflage driving APCs and UAZs (6) 14321/11 (6) 08/06/02 (6) Camouflaged men with machine guns and shields (7) 26277/11 (7) 11/08/02 (7) Armed, camouflaged men Art8: Failure to Kushtova 21885/07 16/01/2014 10/07/2006 Ingushetia - FSB carrying out a military operation SJI, Lawyers return body Art2:DIS, NECI; (1) 39436/06 (1) 28/12/04 Z and Khatuyeva 30/01/2014 North Ossetia Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/IQW, F/DQW, PI Camouflaged men identifying themselves as servicemen of RUBOP to Beslan airport officials EHRAC/Memorial HRC (2) 40169/07 (2) 28/12/04 Art13: NECI (1) 61536/08, (1) 03/05/01 (1) Federal servicemen conducting a sweeping operation (2)6647/09, (2) 16/07/03 Art2: DIS, NECI; (2) Believed to be servicemen of special division no.1 or 2 of the FSB "Combination of [the usual] Mikiyeva and others (3)6659/09, 30/01/2014 (3) 08/05/04 Chechnya Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; (3) Armed, masked men in camouflage; believed to be FSB servicemen SJI/Astreya, Lawyers defects" (4)63535/10 (4) 04/05/01 Art13: NECI (4) Camouflaged men in APCs and UAZs (5)15695/11 (5) 11/01/03 (5) Armed, masked men in UAZs and a minivan

(1) Servicemen conducting a sweeping operation (suspected military unit no.20102) (1) 8620/09 (1) 15/12/01 (2) Camouflaged servicemen (suspected of ROVD and FSB) (2) 11674/09 (2) 29/10/02 (3) Men in camouflage uniforms; commanding officer had FSB emblem on sleeve (3) 16488/09 (3) 19/09/01 (4) Suspected ROVD servicemen (4) 21133/09 (4) 05/11/04 Art2:DIS, NECI; (5) Federal servicemen conducting a sweeping operation; witnesses identified 2 servicemen as SJI, Memorial HRC, Dzhabrailov and others (5) 36354/09 27/02/2014 (5) 08/08/00 Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/IQW, F/DQW, PI former ROVD and OVD officers Lawyer (6) 47770/09 (6) 30/06/01 Art13: NECI (6) Servicemen in camouflage uniform (suspected 33rd regiment FSB) (7) 54728/09 (7) 06/01/01 (7) Urus-Martan ROVD officers (8) 25511/10 (8) 17/01/03 (8) Armed, masked servicemen in APCs with obscured registration plates (9) 32791/10 (9) 21/04/02 (9) Camouflaged servicemen in APCs and tow infantry combat vehicles; registration plates were intentionally concealed with mud in front of witnesses

Art3: VT/IT, NECI; Kurgan Art14: Ethnic Various Russian law-enforcement agencies (including the RUBOP and ROVD), some in military Antayev and others 37966/07 03/07/2014 24/03/2006 (Vargashinski F/DICP, F/IVW EHRAC/Memorial HRC Discrimination uniforms and masks, others in civilian clothes. y)

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Kurgan Amadayev 18114/06 03/07/2014 18/05/2002 (Chastoozersk Art3: NECI F/DQW, F/IVW Chastoozerskiy police EHRAC/Memorial HRC iy) (1)66831/11 (2) 55055/11 (1) Military servicemen in a convoy of military vehicles (at least 3 APCs + 1 URAL lorry + 1 UAZ (3)52182/11 (1)20/07/2003 (2) 26/02/2003 all-terrain car) (2) Military servicemen in in UAZ (4)52076/11 (3) 12/02/2001 (4)21/01/2003 minivans and VAZ-2121 cars (3) Military servicemen in APCs and URAL lorries (5)44313/11 (5)16/04/2003 (6) 07/07/2003 (4) Military servicemen in UAZ "Battalion Vostok" (MoD) (5) Military Art 2: DIS, IS, NECI; Petimat Ismailova and (6)44284/11 (7)05/12/2004 (8)12/01/2006 servicemen in UAZ vehicles (6) Servicemen in UAZ and Lawyers, SJI/Astreya; 18/09/2014 Chechnya Art 3: ADA, Art 5: F/DICP, PI others (7)44277/11 (9)14/10/2002 GAZEL vehicles (7) Servcemen in military uniforms claiming to NGO Materi Chechni UDI; Art 13: RR (8)49486/11 (10)16/06/2002,23/06/2002 be police (8) Armed servicemen in UAZ vehicles. they left in the direction of (9)56574/11 (11)06/01/2004 the ROVD (9) Armed servicemen (10) (10)48134/11 (12)12/11/2002 Servicemen in APCs (11) Servicemen in APCs (11)25088/11 (12)Armed servicemen in APCs and a VAZ car (12)64266/11 Art2: DIS; Art3: ADA, F/DICP, F/DQA, F/DQW, Suspected state servicemen; armed with camouflaged uniforms that displayed Ministry of the Makayeva 37287/09 18/09/2014 01/07/2009 Chechnya NECI; Art5: UD; EHRAC/Memorial HRC F/DDIE Interior insignia Art13: RR Kharayeva and Others 2721/11 27/11/2014 27/07/2004 Chechnya Art 2: NECI, RR PI, F/DQW, F/IVW Armed men with masks and camouflage - Grozny ROVD Materi Chechni (1)4386/10 (1) Armed servicemen in 2 APCs, 1 URAL and 2 UAZ cars (2) Armed servicemen in UAZ car, (2)67305/10 (1)30/10/2001 (2)24/09/2001 Malika Yusupova and URAL lorry belonging to local police station, two KAMAZ lorries. Victims detained at FSB office Lawyers, SJI/Astreya, (3)68860/10 15/01/2015 (3)11/05/2002 (4)09/05/2002 others Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art (3) Armed servicemen in APC, UAZ minivan and URAL lorry (4) Servicemen in uniform in a NGO Materi Chechni (4)70695/10 (5)23/03/2002 3: ADA, IS; Art 5: APC and 2 URAL lorries (5) Russian servicemen in APC (5)14705/09 Chechnya UD; Art 13: RR PI, F/DICP, F/IVW F/DDIE, F/DCA. F/DICP, Men in camouflage that claimed to be from Nazran District Department of Interior, but court Albakova 69842/10 15/01/2015 10/07/2009 Ingushetiya Art2: UnK; NECI EHRAC/Memorial HRC F/DWQ, F/IVW, PI found lack of proof Art2: DIS; Art3: Zhebrailova 40166/07 26/03/2015 25/04/2005 Chechnya VT/IT, NECI, ADA; F/DICP, F/DDIE State agents with uniforms, assault rifles and masks EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art5: UD; Art13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Gambulatova 11237/10 26/03/2015 28/06/2001 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, F/DICP, F/IVW Russian servicemen. Victims taken in an APC to military commander office of Kurchaloy district Lawyers Art 13: RR Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Armed servicemen in 2 APCs and 1 UAZ car. After abduction they introduced themselves as Ireziyevi 21135/09 02/04/2015 07/05/2002 Chechnya 3:ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, FDIE,FQW, F/DICP Lawyer officers od OMON of St Petersburg Art 13: RR Art 2: death due to negligence (arbitrary Mezhiyeva 44297/06 16/04/2015 06/03/2001 Chechnya PI Servicemen on duty at checkpoint (where incident happened) SJI deprivation of life), ALR, NECI, RR Art 2: NECI, DIS; Art Aziyeva and others 30237/10 23/04/2015 31/10/2009 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5: UD; PI, F/DICP, F/DIE, F/DQW Servicemen in uniform in UAZ and VAZ civilian vehicles Lawyer Art 13: RR Kagirov 36367/09 23/04/2015 Autumn 2004 Chechnya Art2: NECI F/DCIP, F/DDIE, PI Armed men in black uniforms EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 2: DIS, NECI; Art Zulay Islamova 5713/11 30/04/2015 14/10/2000 Chechnya 3: ADA; Art 5 : UD; PI, DQW, F/DIE Armed servicemen with black masks SJI Art 13: RR Victim working as security guard for ROVD. Arrested by (allegedly) servicemen from Vostok Saydulkhanova 25521/10 25/06/2015 13/01/2001 Chechnya Art 2: NECI PI, FQW. F/IVW SJI/Astreya Battalion in UAZ minivan and officers from Vedeno ROVD (1) ROVD, driving UAZ vehicle (1) 42575/07 (1) 04/08/00 Chechnya (2) Armed men in camouflaged uniforms; suspected FDCS (2) 53679/07 (2) 29/09/05 Chechnya (3) Russian security forces (3) 311/08 (3) 03/02/00 Igushetia (4) Armed men in camouflaged uniforms, speaking unaccented Russian, suspected federal (4) 424/08 (4) 04/05/03 Chechnya survicemen (5) 3375/08 (5) 03/03/06 Chechnya (5) Armed men in camo, suspected FSB Art2: DIS, NECI; (6) 4560/08 09/10/2014 (6) 03/11/02 Chechnya (6) Picked up by servicemen from 47th unit of Special Task Force Division, questioned by EHRAC/Memorial Sultygov and others Art3: ADA; Art5: UD; F/DQW, F/IVW, PI (7) 35569/08 (7) 19/01/04 Chechnya ROVD HRC, SJI, Lawyers Art13: RR (8) 62220/10 (8) 04/09/00 Chechnya (7) Servicemen from State agency (9) 3222/11 (9) 20/11/02 Chechnya (8) Masked servcicemen in camo, driving UAZ cars and URAL lorries (10) 22257/11 (10) 04/05/04 Chechnya (9) Masked military servicemen in camouflage, driving in APCs (11) 24744/11 (11) 12/10/01 Chechnya (10) Armed and masked servicemen in camouflaged uniforms (12) 36897/11 (12) 16/07/00 Chechnya (11) Masked servicement in camo with machine guns (12) Servicemen in camo

Art. 2: DIS, NECI, F/DICP, F/IVW, PI Abdulrakhmanova and 41437/10 22/09/2015 25/06/2010 Dagestan Art. 3: VT/IT; Art. 13: Group of 5 officers from the Sovetskiy ROVD one of whom identified himself as Shamil EHRAC/Memorial HRC Abdulgamidova RR Art 2: EJE, NECI, Unconfirmed, believed to be federal military. Indiscriminate heavy shelling of Katyr-Yurt in Abakarova 16664/07 15/10/2015 04/02/2000 Chechnya PI, FIVW, DQW, DICP EHRAC/Memorial HRC SHL; Art 13: RR special military operation. F/IVW Authorities using firearms to disperse protesters in village of Miskindzha, in the Dokuzparinskiy Nagmetov 35589/08 05/11/2015 25/04/2006 Dagestan Art. 2: NECI, EJE Lawyer district of Dagestan F/DICP North Ossetia- Buzurtanova and 78633/12 05/11/2015 06/12/2012 Ingushetian Art. 2: NECI Unidentified masked men in military uniforms Lawyer Zarkhmatova border Bimuradova 3769/11 12/11/2015 27/05/2002 Chechnya Art. 2: NECI F/IVW, PI Unidentified a group of armed masked men in a white car -

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F/DICP, IS, F/IVW, PI Art. 2: DIS, NECI; A group of about 20-30 masked and armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms arrived at the 22698/09 and Sagayeva and others 08/12/2015 08/08/2000 Chechnya Art. 3: VIT; Art. 13: applicant’s house in 2 armoured personnel carriers (APCs) and several UAZ minivans. APC no. SJI/Astreya 31189/11 RR 802 belonged to a military regiment stationed at the Main Federal Military Base in Khankala

Art. 2: SHL, EJE, F/IVW, F/DDIE, PI NECI; Art. 3: VIT; A group of about 15 federal servicemen in uniforms and balaclavas, armed with automatic Dudayeva 67437/09 08/12/2015 09/07/2002 Chechnya Lawyers Art. 5: UD; Art. 13: weapons, arrived in an armoured personnel carrier (APC) RR Salamov 5063/05 12/01/2016 14/12/1999 Chechnya A1P1: PEP, SP F/IVW A military serviceman Lawyer F/DICP, F/IVW, PI A group of 8 armed men who were driving 2 civilian vehicles: a silver-coloured VAZ-21014, Salikhova and 63689/13 26/01/2016 20/05/2013 Dagestan Art. 2: NECI Lawyer Magomedova which had a registration number which partially read “A067”, and a black VAZ-21099 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; Khachukayevy 34576/08 09/02/2016 24/11/2000 Chechnya Art.3: AIT; Art. 5: F/DICP, F/IVW Unidentified military servicemen with armoured military vehicles (BMP) and UAZ cars SJI/Astreya UD; Art.13: RR 21126/09, 63620/09, 20/01/2000, 30/08/2002/ Art. 2: DIS, NECI; OMON comprised of servicemen from the Perm Region; a group of armed servicemen in Nazyrova and others 64811/09, 09/02/2016 04/02/2002, 30/07/2002, Chechnya Art. 3: AIT; Art 5: F/DICP, F/IVW, PI camouflage uniform and balaclavas; Department of Technological Equipment based on the Lawyers, SJI/Astreya 32965/10 and 16/08/2003 UD, IS; Art. 13: RR premises of the main military base of the Russian federal troops in Khankala 64270/11 A group of unidentified men armed with assault rifles and pistols wearing plain clothes and Dalakov 35152/09 15/02/2016 02/09/2007 Ingushetia Art. 2: EJE, NECI F/DICP, F/IVW camouflage uniforms and balaclavas in 2 Gazel minivans with heavily tinted windows and EHRAC/Memorial HRC without number plates

Art. 2: DIS, NECI; Gaysanova 62235/09 12/05/2016 31/10/2009 Chechnya F/DICP Unconfirmed law-enforcement authorities alledgedly carrying out “operational-search activities” EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art.3: AIT; Art. 5: UD

Ibragim Tsechoyev 18011/12 21/06/2016 22/03/2012 Ingushetia Art. 2: NECI F/IVW 10 unidentified men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas armed with automatic weapons SJI/Astreya 8 unidentified masked men in black uniforms and armed with pistols and machine guns in Mutayeva and Ismailova 33539/12 21/06/2016 02/05/2012 Dagestan Art. 2: NECI F/DDIE, F/IVW, PI silver-coloured VAZ Priora cars with heavily tinted windows, one of which had an official Lawyer registration number containing the digits “78”; unconfirmed OVD Art. 2: DIS, NECI; Aliyev and Gadzhiyeva 11059/12 12/07/2016 21/01/2012 Dagestan Art. 5: UD; Art. 13: F/DDIE, F/DICP, F/IVW Several armed men in the uniforms of the State Traffic Police SJI/Astreya RR Abdulkhadzhiyeva and Art. 2: ALR; A1P1: 40001/08 04/10/2016 08/10/1999 Chechnya F/DDIE, F/DICP Federal military troops Lawyer Abdulkhadzhiyev PEP; Art. 13: RR 21/05/2002, 22/05/2002, 23/05/2002, 25/05/2005, Art. 2: DIS, NECI; 3340/08 and 01/06/2002, 05/06/2002, an SJI/Astreya/“Boretz za Ortsuyeva and others 22/11/2016 Chechnya Art. 3: VT/IT; Art. 5; F/DICP, F/IVW Russian Federal Forces 24689/10 unspecified date at the Spravedlivost” Art. 13: RR beginning of June 2002

Barakhoyev 8516/08 17/01/2017 10/01/2007 North Ossetia Art 3: VT/IT; Art 5 F/DICP ROVD EHRAC/Memorial HRC Abubakarova and 47222/07 and 31/01/2017 30/09/2002 Chechnya Art 2: UnK, NECI F/DDIE, F/IVW, PI Unidentified military servicemen in IFV Lawyer Midalishova 47223/07 Orlov and others 5632/10 14/03/2017 23/11/2007 Ingushetia Art 3; Art 5; Art 1 P1 F/DDIE, F/DICP, LI Russian state agents EHRAC/Memorial HRC Art 2: NECI, ALR, Police, Internal Troops of the Ministry of the Interior, army servicemen of the Ministry of Tagayeva and others 26562/07 et al. 13/04/2017 01/09/2004-04/09/2004 North Ossetia F/DICP, F/IVW EHRAC/Memorial HRC UnK Defence and officers of FSB Khadzhimuradov and F/DQW, F/DM, PI, F/IVW, 21194/09 et al. 10/10/2017 05/02/2000 Chechnya Art 2: NECI Servicemen from the St Petersburg OMON Lawyer others F/DBR Art 3: AT/AIT, NECI; Abdulkadyrov and Officers of the Operational-Search Division of the North Caucasus Operations Department of the 35061/04 10/07/2018 (1) 25/09/2002 (2) 19/09/2002 Chechnya Art 6: DAC; Art 8: F/DQW, F/DDIE Lawyers Dakhtayev Chief Directorate of the Russian Ministry of the Interior in the Southern Federal Circuit RH Art 2: DIS, EJE, Alikhanovy 17054/06 28/08/2018 23/12/2004 Dagestan NECI; Art 3: ADA; Art F/DICP, F/IVW Several men in police uniforms and balaclavas from the Dagestan Organised Crime Unit Lawyer 5: UD; Art 13: RR Art. 2: ITD, NECI; Kabardino- Tsakoyevy 16397/07 02/10/2018 27/09/2004 Art. 5: UD; Art. 13: F/DDIE, F/DICP, F/IVW, PI Police officers in masks and camouflage uniforms bearing the stripes of the SOBR EHRAC/Memorial HRC Balkaria RR Art. 2: UnK, EJE (one of those?)NECI, 8 armed men in camouflage uniforms, wearing masks and carrying machine guns (Kalashnikov) Makhloyev 66320/09 16/10/2018 29/10/2009 Ingushetia NJR; Art. 3: ADA; F/IVW, PI EHRAC/Memorial HRC and bullet-proof shields, speaking Russian with no accent. Art. 5: UD; Art. 13: RR (1) 14196/08 (2) 62409/10 (3) 12868/11 (4) 34290/11 Art. 2: EJE, NECI; (5) 41877/11 On various occasions Russian-speaking armed men with insignia of different law enforcement Bitsayeva and others 23/10/2018 2001 to 2005 Chechnya Art. 3: ADA; Art. 5: F/IVW, PI SJI/Astreya/Lawyers (6) 44311/11 battalions UD; Art. 13: RR; (7) 62172/11 (8) 13843/12 (9) 13909/12 (10) 32554/12

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(1) Military servicemen at a checkpoint known as “SSG-4” (2) Armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms in four armoured infantry carriers (“AICs”) without registration numbers (3) Armed military servicemen in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas at checkpoint no. 136 on outskirts of Argun (1) 5374/07 (4) Special batalion "Vostok" druing a special military operation. Ten armed military servicemen (2) 7651/08 in camouflage uniforms, unmasked and of Slavic appearance and spoke unaccented Russian (3) 29910/08 (5) Armed men in military uniforms. All of the men, except two, wore balaclavas. The two men (4) 14688/09 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; not wearing balaclavas were of Asian appearance. All of the men spoke unaccented Russian and EHRAC/Memorial (5) 22253/11 Art. 3: ADA; had special military equipment, including aiming lasers, blast shields and helmets Yandayeva and others 04/12/2018 2002 to 2004 Chechnya F/DDIE, F/DICP, F/IVW, PI HRC/SJI/Astreya/Mater (6) 31280/11 Art. 5: UD; (6) Armed servicemen in balaclavas and camouflage uniforms during a special "sweeping-up" i Chechni/ Lawyers (7) 41884/11 Art. 13: RR operation (8) 52051/11 (7) Military servicemen at checkpoint no. 33 in the Oktyabrskiy district in Grozny (9) 66830/11 (8) “Zapad” unit of the United Military Alignment. A group of armed servicemen in camouflage (10) 851/12 uniforms in several vehicles, including an APC, an Ural lorry and an UAZ minivan (9) 20-25 armed military servicemen wearing camouflage uniforms who spoke unaccented Russian (10) A large group of 120-130 armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms, and in APC, Ural lorries and UAZ-452 vehicles. They spoke unaccented Russian and were of Slavic appearance; some of them were equipped with portable radio devices

(1) A group of armed men in camouflage uniforms on three military UAZ vehicles, two Niva cars and one VAZ car, all without registration plates. Unmasked and spoke unaccented Russian; in balaclavas were apparently of Chechen origin (2) A group of armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas on two grey VAZ vehicles (1) 36962/09 (3) A group of ten to fifteen servicemen in camouflage uniforms (some in balaclavas), armed (2) 37430/09 with grenades and machine guns. The unmasked intruders were of Slavic appearance and spoke (3) 43724/09 unaccented Russian, while the masked ones spoke Chechen (4) 35816/10 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; (4) About twenty armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas (5) 54733/10 Art. 3: ADA; F/DDIE, F/DICP, F/DQW, (5) A group of forty to fifty armed servicemen in balaclavas and camouflage uniforms on APCs SJI/Astreya/Materi Tazuyeva and Others 22/01/2019 2000 to 2005 Chechnya (6) 24748/11 Art. 5: UD; F/IVW, PI and Utal lorries Chechni/ Lawyers (7) 29826/11 Art. 13: RR (6) A group of armed servicemen in balaclavas and camouflage uniforms on an APC bearing the (8) 34256/11 identification number 023, two UAZ vehicles and one VAZ vehicles. Prior to the incident, the (9) 42835/11 APC had been seen on the premises of the Argun military commander’s office (10) 4887/14 (7) About fifteen servicemen in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas armed with machine guns (8) A group of armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas on three UAZ vehicles (9) A group of armed men in camouflage uniforms on an APC and an UAZ vehicle (10) A group of armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms on APCs that bore no registration plates. The servicemen spoke unaccented Russian and were of Slavic appearance

(1) Service personnel from the Bamut military command under Major General Starkov and police officers from the Sunzhenskiy district department of the interior (“the Sunzhenskiy ROVD”) (2) Armed men in military camouflage uniforms, some of the men were in balaclavas (1) Ingushetia (1) 50556/08 (3) Armed service personnel in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas arrived in a GAZelle (2) Chechnya (2) 51029/08 minivan and a VAZ vehicle, speaking unaccented Russian (3) Ingushetia (3) 22667/09 (4) Men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas, armed with automatic weapons and speaking (4) Chechnya (4) 43706/09 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; unaccented Russian (5) Chechnya EHRAC/Memorial (5) 66394/10 Art. 3: ADA; (5) Service personnel speaking unaccented Russian driving a white GAZelle minivan without Kukurkhoyeva and Others 22/01/2019 2001 to 2005 (6) Chechnya F/FFIE, F/DICP, F/IVW, PI HRC/SJI/Astreya/Mater (6) 5691/11 Art. 5: UD; registration plates and service personnel in camouflage uniforms with semi-automatic weapons (7) Chechnya i Chechni/ Lawyers (7) 59117/11 Art. 13: RR (6) Armed men in camouflage uniforms, helmets and balaclavas (8) Chechnya (8) 65052/11 (7) Armed military service personnel in 2 GAZelle minivans without registration plates during a (9) Ingushetia (9) 70640/11 "special sweep" operation. The service personnel wore balaclavas and camouflage uniforms and (10) (10) 59203/13 spoke unaccented Russian Chechnya (8) Armed service personnel in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas speaking unaccented Russian (9) Armed service personnel in camouflage uniforms driving UAZ minivan (10) Armed service personnel in camouflage uniforms arrived in APCs

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(1) 4635/08 Art. 2: EJE, UnK, (1) 20 federal servicemen who had arrived in two armoured personnel carriers and UAZ vehicles Shamsudinova and Others (2) 14202/08 05/02/2019 2001 and 2005 Chechnya NECI; F/DQW, F/IVW, PI (2) Russian federal forces SJI/Asteya/Lawyers (3) 21432/12 Art. 5: UD (3) Police officers from the “West” (Запад) battalion of the Chechen Ministry of the Interior

(1) 22983/10 (1) Armed men in camouflage uniforms, some of them in balaclavas (2) 52064/11 (2) Servicemen (3) 52173/11 (3) Servicemen in camouflage uniforms without identifying insignia (4) 69462/11 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; (4) Servicemen (5) 73948/11 Art. 3: ADA; F/DDIE, F/DICP, F/DQA, (5) Armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms SJI/Astreya/Materi Makhmudova and Others 12/03/2019 2001 to 2006 Chechnya (6) 7214/12 Art. 5: UD; F/DQW, F/IVW, PI (6) Armed servicemen in balaclavas and camouflage uniforms Chechni/ Lawyers (7) 46621/12 Art. 13: RR (7) Servicemen in camouflage uniforms (8) 66877/12 (8) Armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas (9) 71672/12 (9) Armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas (10) 23115/13 (10) Armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas 6/7 men in military camouflage uniforms speaking Russian who arrived in armoured personnel Dagalayeva 19650/11 12/03/2019 01/04/2006 Chechnya Art. 2: UnK, NECI; F/DICP, F/DQW, F/IVW, PI Lawyers carriers

(1) Russian service personnel at the checkpoint on the road between the of Kulary and Lermontovo; A group of around 20 armed men wearing camouflage uniforms and balaclavas on a UAZ-469 vehicle and 3 VAZ vehicles without registration numbers, the service personnel spoke unaccented Russian (2) Armed service personnel, wearing camouflage uniforms and equipped with portable radio sets on a Ural lorry , of Slavic appearance and spoke unaccented Russian (3) 7/8 armed men in camouflage uniforms and black bulletproof vests, of Slavic and Chechen (1) 53075/08 appearance and spoke Russian and Chechen (2) 16319/10 (4) Armed service personnel in masks, presumably agents of a special anti-terrorist unit of the (3) 12377/11 Chechnya Ministry of the Interior located nearby (4) 29844/11 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; (5) Russian militaries, 20 armed men wearing camouflage uniforms and balaclavas on 2 APCs (5) 38134/11 Art. 3: ADA; SJI/Astreya/Materi Isayeva and Others 28/05/2019 2000 to 2005 Chechnya F/DICP, F/IVW, PI during a "special sweep" operation (6) 44296/11 Art. 5: UD; Chechni/ Lawyers (6) Armed military service personnel in camouflage uniforms at a roadblock next to the (7) 62160/11 Art. 13: RR Prigorodnoye village. The service personnel spoke unaccented Russian and were in three (8) 64272/11 armoured infantry vehicles with the registration numbers 318, 341 and 356 (9) 13874/12 (7) Armed men in camouflage uniforms on 4 APCs, several UAZ vehicles (10) 77706/12 (8) Armed military service personnel in camouflage uniforms at the checkpoint located at the crossroad next to Valerik, and Gekhi villages (9) Military service personnel in camouflage uniforms and masks. The service personnel allegedly belonged to a military unit called 34 ObrON (34 ОбрОН) stationed nearby; armed with machineguns and grenade launchers, and in 3 APCs and a Ural lorry (10) Armed military service personnel on an APC and an armoured infantry vehicle, of Slavic appearance and spoke unaccented Russian

(1) Armed men in camouflage uniforms, most of whom were of Slavic appearance and spoke unaccented Russian (2) Servicemen from the Shali district temporary department of the interior (“the VOVD”) (3) Armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas on a grey UAZ-469 (tabletka) vehicle without registration plates (1) Ingushetia (1) 6636/09 (4) Servicemen at a roadblock in the village of Komsomolskoye (2) Chechnya ‑ (2) 58501/09 (5) About 6 armed men in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas on a grey UAZ vehicle without (3) Ingushetia (3) 67344/09 registration plate at the intersection of Shosseynaya Street and the road between Ken Yurt and (4) Chechnya (4) 12926/10 Art. 2: DIS, NECI; Bratskoye (5) Chechnya (5) 22170/11 Art. 3: ADA; (6) Russian-speaking group of armed servicemen in camouflage uniforms and balaclavas in a SJI/Astreya/Materi Khamkhoyeva and Others 28/05/2019 2000 to 2006 (6) Chechnya F/DICP, F/DQW, F/IVW, PI (6) 22311/11 Art. 5: UD; white VAZ-2107 car with tinted windows and a Gazel minivan without registration plates at the Chechni/ Lawyers (7) Chechnya (7) 22946/11 Art. 13: RR crossroads of Melnichnaya and Lugovaya Streets in Argun (8) Chechnya (8) 31184/11 (7) Approximately 6 armed servicemen in military uniforms and balaclavas on 2 VAZ-2106 (9) Chechnya (9) 75319/11 vehicles with registration plates allegedly comprising the digits “680 95 RUS” and “689 95 (10) (10) 34887/12 RUS”, speaking unaccented Russian Chechnya (8) Russian military servicemen on APC (9) 10-15 military servicemen of Slavic appearance; wearing‑ paratroopers’ military uniforms and speaking unaccented Russian (10) About 10 armed men in camouflage uniforms in VAZ 21099 and UAZ-469 vehicles without registration plates

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