Security forces of Chechnya ‘behind attack on dissident blogger’ last year

Tumso Abdurakhmanov assault traced to Russia, says spy agency report examined by Swedish TV

A secret European intelligence report has concluded that Chechnya’s security services most likely stand behind the attempted murder in Sweden, in 2020, of a dissident Chechen blogger.

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, an exiled critic of Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechnya’s leader, barely survived the hammer attack last year in a bizarre assassination attempt that investigators say they traced to Russia.

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