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have given substantial support for a longer period of time.14 In this regard, the State party
notes that the complainants’ sons/brothers left the Russian Federation in 2002 and 2006,
respectively. The complainants have not alleged that the sons/brothers, since their
departure, have been in contact with the rebels or that they have supported them in any
way. It has also not been shown that the sons/brothers gave the rebels any more substantial
support other than sporadically bringing them food and medicine, or that they supported
any high-profile rebels.
4.18 Furthermore, the State party shares the migration authorities’ view that the
complainants’ descriptions of the masked men who visited their apartment and threatened
them are vague and of a general nature. It is only an assumption on the complainants’ part
that the masked men had a connection to the authorities and no evidence had been brought
forward to support this view. As the Swedish migration authorities noted in their decisions
and judgments, the complainants remained in their home despite the alleged threats, which
indicates that they did not find their need of protection to be particularly urgent. The third
complainant did move to her uncle’s home after the last visit by the masked men, but the
State party notes that the complainants did not consider the threat against her in the spring
of 2010 to be so serious that she could not complete her studies at the municipal upper
secondary school, which is supported by the submitted certificate of completed studies and
by the complainants’ own account. Moreover, the conduct of the third complainant and her
family indicates that they considered that moving the third complainant to another town
would be sufficient to eliminate the threats against her.
4.19 In addition, the State party notes that according to the available country-of-origin
information it is common for individuals who are related to suspected rebels to be
dismissed from their place of work. The first complainant has stated that he worked as a
geophysicist for a company run by the Chechen authorities. According to his own account,
he kept his employment until his departure from the country; he has also stated that he did
not encounter any problems at work. The State party shares the view of the Swedish
migration authorities that these circumstances indicate that the complainants were not of
any great interest to the Chechen authorities.
4.20 Moreover, the complainants submitted their internal passports in order to support
their identities. According to the stamps in the passports and the complainants’ own
account, the passports were issued in 2009 and 2010 by the competent authorities in
Grozny. The complainants were thus able to obtain these passports from the Chechen
authorities in 2009 and 2010, despite the fact that the alleged threats towards them began in
2008. In this regard, the State party shares the Swedish migration authorities’ view that this
circumstance speaks strongly against the complainants’ claims that they felt an urgent
threat from the Chechen authorities and that they were threatened by the authorities.
4.21 Further, the complainants have alleged that they have been summoned for
questioning in the Russian Federation and have submitted documents in support of this
claim. As the Swedish migration authorities have noted, the summonses are of a simple
nature and the declared name of the second complainant’s father is different from the name
specified in her internal passport. The complainants have not explained who sent those
documents to Sweden or how that person came into possession of them. The State party
therefore shares the assessment of the Swedish migration authorities that those documents
cannot be accorded any significant evidentiary value.
4.22 Furthermore, after the decision to expel the complainants became final and nonappealable the complainants claimed that there were impediments to the enforcement of the
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Ibid.