A dissident blogger who is a singing critic of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov turned up alive Tuesday after going missing for more than two months.Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a YouTuber based in Sweden, vanished in late November as the Chechen opposition claimed he had actually been shot dead amid a string of politically motivated murders of ethnic Chechens outside Russia.The Swedish authorities had actually not talked about the reports of Abdurakhmanovs death, but days later a German court authorities said he was alive and the Chechen opposition said he was under the security of Swedish police.
Early on Tuesday, Abdurakhmanov appeared in a video titled The Return on his YouTube channel after a three-month lack from the platform.
Im alive and in great health, he stated without resolving the reasons for his abrupt disappearance.The Chechen human rights group Vayfond said it had been gotten in touch with by Abdurakhmanov hours previously however was uninformed of other information, including where he is presently based.
We assume he himself cant comment on anything due to secrecy, a Vayfond representative informed the Novaya Gazeta Europe news site.Swedish media had actually stated Abdurakhmanov was a witness in a criminal case into the tried murder of his more youthful sibling in Germany.Abdurakhmanov previously endured a hammer attack in Sweden in 2020.
A Swedish court sentenced a male suspect in that attack to 10 years in prison and a female suspect to 8 years.Abdurakhmanov had resided in exile because 2015 to leave what he had referred to as threats to his life in Chechnya, a southern Russian region ruled by Kremlin loyalist Kadyrov.Kadyrovs close ally Magomed Daudov had actually stated a so-called blood feud against Abdurakhmanov in March 2019 for calling his dad and previous Chechen leader Akhmat Kadyrov a traitor.