Swedish Radio, citing Laurent Lafleur, the Press Secretary of the Higher Regional Court in Munich, reported that the opposition Chechen blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, whose murder was previously reported by various sources, is alive. The German publication Augsburger Allgemeine also wrote about this.
"I can confirm that we have received information that the witness is alive," Lafleur said. He did not specify where this information came from.
Notably, Abdurakhmanov has been a vocal opponent of the Ramzan Kadyrov-led Chechen government and other Russian authorities in Chechnya. In February 2020, a stranger stormed into his Sweden home and assaulted him with a hammer, but he survived. Abdurakhmanov was able to stop the assailant and escape with only minor wounds. According to reports, Mohmad Abdurakhmanov was the subject of an attempted murder in Germany the previous year.
Earlier, on December 5, Caucasus Watch reported that Chechen opposition groups stated that Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a dissident Chechen blogger who lives in Sweden, was murdered.
