Family members of a dissident from Chechnya who was murdered in Vienna, have claimed responsibility for his killing in a video confession that has been described every bit existence made under duress.

The blogger Mamikhan Umarov, 43, was shot dead on July 4 in the Austrian capital. He was a song critic on YouTube of the Russian republic's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, who is accused by international groups of human rights abuses.

Austrian police force have arrested two men of Chechen origin in connection with the murder of Umarov, the third dissident from the Russian North Caucasus republic to be killed in Europe over the final 12 months.

In a video posted on Instagram, 10 male relatives of Umarov stood together and took turns making statements in Chechen in which they said they carried out the killing to stop his "unforgivable insults" of the Chechen people, co-ordinate to a translation past the website Caucasian Knot.

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The men said they were unable to "command their avoiding relative" and so had to stop him co-ordinate to the ancient Chechen customs "to remove the stigma from their family."

The family apologized to Kadyrov and "repented earlier all Chechens for the unforgivable insults he had inflicted on the whole people."

"We wholeheartedly ask forgiveness from the people of the republic," one of the men said.

However a senior Chechen figure in Austria, where Umarov had been granted asylum afterward fleeing the southern Russian commonwealth in 2005, said the confession appeared forced.

Khusein Iskhanov, the caput of the Chechen separatist diaspora group the Cultural Association of Ichkeria in Austria told the Caucasian Knot: "It's hard to imagine more absurd statements. The relatives were forced to accept the blame for the murder of the blogger.

Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov
Chechnya’s leader Ramzan Kadyrov at Moscow’southward G Kremlin Palace on October 5, 2017. The family of a Chechen killed in Vienna claimed responsibility for the murder which Kadyrov is defendant of ordering. Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images

"The regime are trying to expose the political murder as some sort of domestic conflict," he added.

Umarov was widely known online as "Anzor from Vienna" and would mail service foul-mouthed tirades against Kadyrov on YouTube. He was shot near a shopping middle in Vienna.

There are concerns over the prophylactic of Chechen dissidents living in Europe who fled Chechnya later on falling foul of Kadyrov.

The death of Umarov was the 3rd in Europe in contempo months of Kadrov's critics, raising suspicions over Kadyrov.

Imran Aliyev, a 44-year-old blogger, was establish dead in a hotel room in Lille, French republic, in January after being stabbed more than 130 times.

In August 2019, an ethnic Chechen and Georgian national, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, was shot dead in Berlin, Radio Gratis Europe reported.

A fourth Chechen dissident, Tumso Abdurakhmanov, managed to fight off an attacker in his apartment in Sweden earlier this year.

This week, the U.S. State Department slapped more than sanctions on Kadyrov "for numerous gross violations of man rights," which included torture and extrajudicial killings. Rights groups have besides linked Kadyrov to horrific abuses against LGBTQ people.

Secretarial assistant of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that the U.S. wanted to "ensure accountability for those who engage in this abhorrent behavior." Kadyrov hit back in a defiant post on his Telegram aqueduct, proverb, "Pompeo, nosotros accept the fight! This is going to be interesting!" as he was pictured holding two guns.