Chechen dissident YouTuber denied asylum in Poland

Tumso Abdurakhmanov, a popular Chechen YouTuber and an ardent critic of the Chechen government has been denied political asylum in Poland. Abdurakhmanov told OC Media that his request was turned down ‘based on the recommendation of Poland’s Internal Security Agency — who identified me as a threat to their country’. ‘Of course, they are not explaining why exactly I am a threat’, he added. Abdurakhmanov wrote on his Telegram channel on Thursday that the Polish authorities had ‘declined t