The Chechen opposition leader Tumso Abdurakhmanov is said to have been shot dead in Sweden
The Chechen opposition leader Tumso Abdurakhmanov is said to have been shot dead in Sweden. Image: @Terror_Alarm/Twitter
Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a Chechen blogger who led the opposition to Russia, has reportedly been shot in Sweden, according to reports on Monday, December 5.
According to telegram channel 1ADATreferring to the information from “informants from Europe and Chechnya”, the Chechen opposition leader Tumso Abdurakhmanov is said to have been shot dead in Sweden.
A report by Radio Liberty, which claimed to have confirmed that information, said Abdurakhmanov had been shot dead in Sweden on the night of December 1-2 after disappearing in the country following alleged threats from Russia’s Wagner group.
1ADAT wrote: “We have enough information that corroborates his [Abdurakhmanov’s] death, and his brother, Muhammad, was hidden by special services.”
The information has not yet been reported by the Swedish police.
Additional reports indicate that Abdurakhmanov missed his regular live stream on YouTube.
Fans of the blogger, who reportedly survived a “Russian-ordered” hammer attack in Sweden back in 2020, said the 36-year-old usually updates them via his Telegram channel if he’s going to miss a stream.
“Usually Tumso warns when the stream will not take place on Telegram. Yesterday he did not warn [us]”, one user shared svoboda.org.
According to Moscow Timesmoved Abdurakhmanov to Sweden in 2019 after he was not granted asylum in Poland.
He had reportedly experienced numerous death threats in Ramzan Kadyrov’s Chechnya and managed to flee the country back in 2015.
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