Tumso Abdurakhmanov, an outspoken critic of Ramzan Kadyrov, survived murder attempt in Sweden

A Swedish court has sentenced a man and a woman to 10 and eight years in prison respectively for attempted murder and accessory to attempted murder in a hammer attack on a blogger and critic of the Chechen leader, Ramzan Kadyrov.

The pair, who were not named by the Gavle district court, assaulted Tumso Abdurakhmanov on 26 February 2020 in his home in Gavle, 106 miles (170km) north of Stockholm.

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