The applicants emphasise that they are not opposed to the children being given a regular answer on their questions when these arise naturally.

Consequently, she directed the jury to return verdicts of not guilty in respect of Abdul Hai. The jury then sent her a letter asking why they had been directed to give this verdict.

  The Court held that the applicants had first been officially informed of the inquiry in progress and been affected by it when they were served with notice of the order committing them for trial

They added that they had never received any money for the sale of their house. 26.

All their belongings were taken, but the family escaped alive. On 23 January 1945 the Soviets ordered the family to return to their home, which they reached on 25 January 1945.

The complainants [stated] that they did not know the identities of those who had burned their houses and that they did not have any witnesses. It was established that there was no crime as alleged.

Both defendants are still absent and neither their solicitors or their counsel have felt it appropriate for them to remain with this case in the absence of their clients. ...

If they have not, there will have been a failure to respect their family life and the interference resulting from the decision will not be capable of being regarded as ‘necessary’ within the meaning of

Later on the same day they were transferred to the FSB office in Znamenskoye and then released after their identities had been ascertained. B.

After sometime women- relatives of the killed started gathering there and demanded that the bodies be released to them. Their requests were refused.

Nevertheless, the soldiers had collected the passports without looking at them, pulled the Isigov cousins' shirts over their heads and forced them into the APC.

They swore and told them that the villages would be evacuated at once with no possibility of returning. The applicants took what they were able to carry with them and left the villages.

They went to the building to find out whether Rasul Tsakoyev was likewise detained there and asked the duty officer about their son.

All applicants, except the first one, complain, invoking Article 3 that they were beaten by the police and that the investigation into this matter was ineffective.

    Subsequently, the applicants alleged that there were impediments to their deportation and requested the Migration Agency to grant them a new assessment of their case.

It appears that at the time they did not pay that sum, which has since then devalued significantly. 8.

The local authorities argued that there were 39 tombstones above the mass grave and they had no authorization to remove them from the next of kin of the individuals buried there. 21.

The SEM officer said that there was no need to go back over the issues they had previously discussed.

At that very moment, seven or eight men walked towards them, made the three persons face the wall and then searched them. Afterwards, the three were put into the waiting cars.