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Chechen blogger escapes apparent assassination bid in Poland
Source: The Guardian
Chechen blogger escapes apparent assassination bid in Poland
Tumso Abdurakhmanov is the latest victim of a murder attempt after similar attacks on exiled dissidents
Neil Hauer
Thu 27 Feb 2020 09.29 GMT
First published on Thu 27 Feb 2020 00.19 GMT
A well-known Chechen blogger has survived an apparent assassination attempt in Poland, in the latest of a series of attacks on dissidents exiled in Europe.
Tumso Abdurakhmanov posted a video showing him disheveled and breathing hard, standing over the bloodied body of another man. “Who sent you? Where have you come from?” Abdurakhmanov asks, before producing a hammer, which he says was used by the man in an attempted murder.
The injured man on the ground, whose voice is muffled, replies that he came “from Moscow”7 and says, “They have my mother.” There was no immediate comment from Polish authorities.
The Sweden-based Chechen rights group Vayfond described the attack as an assassination attempt.
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Abdurakhmanov is one of the most prominent and outspoken critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya province. He left Chechnya in 2015 following threats from a Chechen official linked to Kadyrov.
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Tumso Abdurakhmanov is the latest victim of a murder attempt after similar attacks on exiled dissidents
Neil Hauer
Thu 27 Feb 2020 09.29 GMT
First published on Thu 27 Feb 2020 00.19 GMT
A well-known Chechen blogger has survived an apparent assassination attempt in Poland, in the latest of a series of attacks on dissidents exiled in Europe.
Tumso Abdurakhmanov posted a video showing him disheveled and breathing hard, standing over the bloodied body of another man. “Who sent you? Where have you come from?” Abdurakhmanov asks, before producing a hammer, which he says was used by the man in an attempted murder.
The injured man on the ground, whose voice is muffled, replies that he came “from Moscow”7 and says, “They have my mother.” There was no immediate comment from Polish authorities.
The Sweden-based Chechen rights group Vayfond described the attack as an assassination attempt.
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Abdurakhmanov is one of the most prominent and outspoken critics of Ramzan Kadyrov, the head of Russia’s Chechnya province. He left Chechnya in 2015 following threats from a Chechen official linked to Kadyrov.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/27/chechen-blogger-escapes-assassination-bid-in-poland