Two Russians convicted in Sweden for attempted murder of Chechen blogger
In this photo taken on November 14, 2018, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, the 32-year-old Chechen video blogger, is pictured during an interview with the Associated Press somewhere in Poland.
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In Sweden, two Russians were sentenced to 10 and 8 years in prison in an attempted murder of a very popular Chechen blogger and power critic Ramzan Kadyrov.
Tumso Abdurakhmanov had survived a hammer attack early last year and managed to subdue his assailant.
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On February 26, Tumso Abdurachmanov was roused from his sleep by a blow to the head.
A man attacks her with a hammer.
Wounded, however, he manages to gain the upper hand over his assailant and ends up obtaining a filmed confession in which the man confesses that he comes from Moscow.
Tumso Abdurachmanov, 34, was then Chechnya's best-known blogger opponent, a supporter of Chechen independence, whom he had to flee for his homeland with his close family, to escape prosecution from power by Ramzan Kadyrov.
After passing through Georgia, then Poland, which refused him asylum, he found himself in Sweden.
The name of the assailant was not disclosed by the court, nor that of his accomplice, a woman who had formed a relationship with the blogger in order to then be able to let the attacker enter the apartment.
Once their sentence is served, they will be returned to Russia.
During the trial, the prosecutor had declared that "
all the leads of the investigation pointed towards Grozny
".
The President of the Chechen Parliament, Magomed Daoudov, had publicly launched a “blood vendetta” against the blogger, much criticized by the authorities.
Also last February, another Chechen blogger was found
stabbed to death in a hotel in Lille
, France.
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