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May 28, 2012
Abduction
The following articles have been tagged with "Abduction":
'I was in survival overdrive': victim
National: 17 Apr 12
On Tuesday it was the 25-year-old kidnapping victim’s turn to tell his version of events in the abduction drama which took place in Uppsala at the end of last year.
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Trio charged in wealthy Swede's abduction
National: 5 Apr 12
Three people were charged on Thursday with drugging and kidnapping a 25-year-old student from a wealthy Swedish family and holding him prisoner for more than a week in what one of the suspects said was a "prank".
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15-year-old girl abducted by father and armed men
National: 8 Feb 12
A 15-year-old girl, taken into custody by social services last week, was removed on Sunday from her foster home by four armed men, one of which was her father.
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Abductee 'had a crush' on female suspect
National: 9 Jan 12
The 25-year-old man who was abducted and held in an abandoned school in northern Sweden was in love with the 23-year-old woman suspected of kidnapping him, according to the suspect's father.
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Missing man was held in abandoned school
National: 5 Jan 12
When police found the abducted 25-year old man on Wednesday afternoon, he was being held in a former school building, in a remote location near Umeå, in the north of Sweden.
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More kids abducted from Sweden: report
Society: 31 Oct 11
Over 100 children have been abducted and taken overseas by one of their parents in each of the past two years, reflecting a significant rise on on 2006, according to foreign ministry figures.
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Journalists 'probing Lundin Oil': report
Business & Money: 13 Sep 11
The two Swedish reporters jailed in Ethiopia were in the country investigating Lundin Petroleum, a Swedish oil and mining company, at the time of their arrest, according to reports in the Swedish media.
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'Sex chamber' rapist gets five years in prison
National: 15 Aug 11
The 47-year-old charged with kidnapping a woman and keeping her prisoner in an underground sex chamber in western Sweden was sentenced to 5 years in prison on Monday.
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Jenny, 30, feared kidnapped in Malmö
National: 10 Aug 11
30-year-old Jenny Persson from Malmö in southern Sweden, has been missing since she left her flat on August 1st without her credit cards, mobile phone or passport. Police now fear she has been abducted.
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Kidnapped Swede found with captors in lay-by
National: 8 Aug 11
Five men barged into a flat in the Rosengård suburb of Malmö, in the south of Sweden, early on Monday morning kidnapping one man after incapacitating two others. The man was later found in a car outside Jönköping.
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Bachelor party 'kidnap' prompts police probe
Society: 21 Jul 11
Police in western Sweden were surprised to find out on Wednesday that the dramatic abduction they were investigating was nothing more than bachelor party prank.
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Kidnapping mum faces four years in prison
Society: 5 Jul 11
The mother of an eight year-old Swedish child who was kept hidden in the Dominican Republic for the past four years is now being charged for the abduction.
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Bosnia war crimes trial ends in Stockholm
National: 23 Mar 11
As the trial of a Swede of Bosnian origin accused of committing war crimes came to a close on Tuesday, the Swedish prosecutor requested eight years in prison.
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Swede in Yemen kidnapping drama
National: 29 Oct 10
A Swedish engineer was kidnapped by Yemeni tribesmen on Thursday when he and his driver were leaving a cement factory in the southern province of Abyan.
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Sweden's first war crimes trial underway
National: 13 Oct 10
The trial of a 43-year-old Swedish citizen charged with torturing prisoners in Bosnia in 1992 started in Stockholm on Wednesday, the first of its kind in Sweden.
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Police find dead body in Gothenburg
National: 28 Sep 10
A human body found in the Hisingen area of Gothenburg on Monday evening is presumed by police to be connected to a crime. The body was found in connection with a search for two young people who disappeared at the weekend.
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Teenager feared kidnapped in Gothenburg
National: 26 Sep 10
Swedish police are searching for a 19-year-old who disappeared after a party in Gothenburg on Friday night, and have classified the case as suspected abduction.
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'Millennium' star set to rival Tom Cruise in MI:4
Society: 24 Sep 10
Sweden's Michael Nyqvist, who portrays journalist sleuth Michael Blomqvist in the 'Millennium' trilogy films, is set to star opposite Hollywood hunk Tom Cruise in "Mission Impossible: 4", according to media reports.
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Oil firm war crimes probe could draw in Bildt
Politics: 21 Jun 10
Sweden's international prosecutor will investigate Lundin Oil over whether it had any role in war crimes committed in Sudan. Foreign Minister Carl Bildt was a director of the company at the time.
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Search party for missing 10-year-old girl
National: 15 May 10
A search party led by police and the military has been deployed to track down a 10-year-old girl from Svenljunga in western Sweden who went missing on Friday evening.
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Ex-boyfriend charged with brutal assault
National: 2 Feb 10
A 21-year-old man has been charged with the brutal assault of his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend in Kristianstad in southern Sweden in November.
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Organ theft article 'a perversion of journalistic standards'
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Oct 09
Amid an ongoing uproar over accusations that Israel harvested the organs of dead Palestinians, media watcher Andrea Levin issues a fresh plea to Aftonbladet to correct "the factual errors that litter the article".
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National police join hunt for missing woman
National: 19 Aug 09
Officers from the National Murder Commission have joined the search for the 32-year-old woman who went missing from her home in Falun in the beginning of August.
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Family terrier makes safe return home
National: 10 Aug 09
Semsi, the one-year-old family terrier that was reported stolen in a burglary in southern Sweden on Sunday, has been found safe and sound.
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Prison for abduction of Aussie boys
National: 10 Jul 09
The Swedish mother charged with abducting her two sons from their Australian father has been sentenced to 10 months in prison.
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Mother arrested over Aussie boys' abduction
National: 2 Apr 09
Ann-Louise Valette, the Swedish woman accused of kidnapping her two sons from their Australian father, has been arrested in Västmanland in central Sweden.
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Court lowers penalty for Swedish girl's Cambodia abduction
National: 13 Feb 09
An appeals court in Sweden has reduced the sentence of the father of a now six-year-old girl whom he abducted and took to Cambodia, hiding the girl for more than a year.
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Armless beggar handlers go to jail
National: 31 Jan 09
Four people who forced an armless man from Ukraine to beg in the Stockholm metro were handed prison sentences on Friday.
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Aussie charges Swedish women's group in sons' abduction
National: 29 Jan 09
An Australian man searching for his two sons, whom he suspects have been abducted by his estranged Swedish ex-wife, alleges that a publicly funded women’s rights group in Sweden may be helping the woman elude police.
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Armless man forced to beg on Stockholm metro
National: 6 Dec 08
A disabled Ukrainian man, 28, was forced to beg for money on Stockholm's metro by five people now charged for holding him in captivity for several years.
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Girl feared kidnapped found safe in Finland
National: 1 Dec 08
The 16-year-old girl from northern Sweden who was feared kidnapped has been found across the border in Finland.
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Teenage girl kidnapped in northern Sweden
National: 30 Nov 08
Police in Sweden and Finland are looking for a 16-year-old girl feared kidnapped in Haparanda in northern Sweden on Saturday morning.
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Marital woes prompt Swede to flee country and fabricate crime
Society: 28 Oct 08
A 43-year-old Swedish man has landed himself in hot water with German police after he tried to smooth over the cracks of a marital tiff with a dramatic but entirely fabricated crime.
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Alicia's father jailed over Cambodia abduction
National: 14 Oct 08
The father of Alicia Elfversson, the six year-old Swedish girl who he abducted and took to Cambodia, has been sentenced to one and a half years in prison by a district court in Gothenburg.
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Swede in Cambodia held for kidnapping
National: 24 Jul 08
A Swedish man, Torgeir Nordbo (left), wanted by Interpol on charges of kidnapping his six-year-old daughter Alicia Elfversson (right) more than a year ago has been arrested in Cambodia.
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Somali militants release Swedish UN worker
National: 28 Jun 08
Islamist militants have released a Swede and a Dane working for the United Nations who were kidnapped when the fighters seized control of a town in Somalia on Saturday.
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Swedish UN worker kidnapped in Somalia
National: 28 Jun 08
Islamist militants kidnapped a Dane and a Swede working for the United Nations and a Somali aid worker when the fighters seized control of a town on Saturday.
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Swede's suspected murderer a known sex offender
National: 26 Apr 08
The suspected killer of a Swedish teenager in Paris is a repeat sex offender, sources close to the investigation have said.
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'Day and night I think of Alicia'
National: 17 Mar 08
A Swedish mother has offered $10,000 for information about the whereabouts of her 6-year-old daughter.
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Man arrested for Uppsala wife killing
National: 1 Mar 08
A 36-year-old man was remanded into custody in Uppsala this morning on suspicion of murdering his wife. The man had reported his wife missing in January.
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Girl made up story about abduction
National: 28 Feb 08
A girl who claimed she was kidnapped and then pushed into the water in central Stockholm has admitted she was lying.
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Kidnapping suspect caught on security camera
National: 6 Feb 08
Police believe security camera footage may help them find a man suspected of abducting a 10-year-old girl.
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Young girl recovering after suspected murder attempt
National: 5 Feb 08
A 10-year-old girl in Stockholm is claiming to have been abducted and pushed from a quayside in the city centre.
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Murder suspects cleared on technicality
National: 29 Nov 07
A legal technical error has led to two men being cleared of the brutal murder of a 35-year-old daycare teacher.
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Kidnapped dog found far from home
Society: 24 Nov 07
An Irishman has been arrested in connection with the abduction of a dog called Enya.
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"All I knew about Sweden was Olof Palme"
Lifestyle: 17 Jan 07
Writer Claudio Tamburrini, whose life is portrayed in a new film, talks to Eddie de Oliveira about surviving torture, playing football and building a new life in Sweden.
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Scandinavians condemn Lebanon violence
National: 13 Jul 06
Sweden, Norway and Denmark have condemned both Hezbollah attacks and Israel's actions in Gaza and Lebanon. Swedish foreign minister Jan Eliasson calls Israeli attacks 'disproportionate'.
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Killer escapes from secure unit with daughter
Smörgåsbord: 7 Apr 06
Police are hunting a woman who has escaped from a secure hospital near Katrineholm. The 26 year old, who murdered her grandmother, fled with her two year old daughter.
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'University of crime' opens in Linköping
Society: 3 Apr 06
A research centre dedicated to the fight against crime opens in Linköping on Tuesday. Sex crime, economic crime, child abuse and leadership are amongst the subjects to be studied.
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Disabled woman gang raped for a day
Society: 17 Mar 06
A mentally handicapped woman was locked in an apartment in a Stockholm suburb and repeatedly raped by a number of men over the course of a day. One man has been arrested.
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Police cadet re-arrested in murder case
National: 8 Mar 06
A 36 year old trainee police officer is being held in custody in Uppsala on suspicion of being involved with the disappearance of a 32 year old woman in Uppland last year. The district court found there to be sufficient evidence to detain him for abduction.
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Olsson to appeal against double murder conviction
National: 2 Aug 05
The man convicted in April of the abduction, rape and murder of a 10 year old girl and a 26 year old prostitute in 1989, wants the judgements overturned entirely - and a new lawyer to argue his case. Fine by me, says the departing advocate.
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Siba kidnapper to appeal
Smörgåsbord: 20 Jul 05
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Confusion over "kidnapped" girl
Smörgåsbord: 22 Jun 05
Police investigate reports of a four-year old girl being adbucted from a playground in Västerås. But no child has been reported missing, and investigators think that the whole incident could be a big misundertanding.
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Sweden reveals secret Iraq hostage
National: 22 Jun 05
A Swedish man was kidnapped and held in Iraq for two months, before being released three weeks ago, it has been revealed. Ulf Hjertström was subjected to mock executions and saw fellow captives shot.
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Bengtsson suspects confess
National: 9 Jun 05
Three men being held for abducting Fabian Bengtsson, CEO of the Siba electronics chain, have confessed to some of the charges against them. Bengtsson was kidnapped in January, and was held for 17 days.
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Comment: Swedish Television cheapens the feminism debate
Lifestyle: 27 May 05
SVT's controversial TV programme on 'extreme feminism' has provoked a week of fierce media debate, with the chairwoman of ROKS, the national women's refuge organisation, portrayed as a man-hating loon. But how much of that was down to selective editing?
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Life sentence for 1989 double murderer
National: 6 Apr 05
Against the media's expectations and the experts' recommendations, Ulf Olsson is sentenced to life imprisonment for the rape and murder of 10 year old Helén Nilsson and 26 year old Jannica Ekblad in 1989.
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Life imprisonment for psychologist murder
National: 30 Dec 04
The Lithuanian man who confessed to the murder of Stockholm psychologist faces a life sentence, while his girlfriend gets four years for abduction.
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