Opposition leader, 47, was being held in jail about 40 miles north of Arctic Circle

  • Sorry, I was gone for a while, so I didn’t get the chance to respond yet. Maybe a little late, but I still wanted to, so here I go:

    First of all, I want to make clear that what I wrote isn’t what I think happened. It was pure speculation if we followed the conspiracy theory path. I think what I wrote in my edit is much closer to what I think actually happened.

    I might have been a bit quick to say news outlets wouldn’t go in depth about it, I just hadn’t heard that much about it yet in my country at the point of writing it. Thinking back on that, it was kind of a baseless conclusion of mine anyway, and I regret making that statement.

    However, I do think part of my statement still holds up in the sense that if we do go that path and he would be “killed” immediately after imprisonment, the impact and outlash would’ve been even bigger.