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February 14, 2012
Espionage
The following articles have been tagged with "Espionage":
Assange 'won't get a fair trial' in Sweden: lawyer
National: 3 Nov 11
Julian Assange's mother and lawyers on Thursday increased pressure on the Australian government to intervene over the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to Sweden, arguing he won't get a fair trial.
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Top Sweden Democrats accused of spying
Politics: 25 Oct 11
Sweden Democrat leaders have been accused of hacking into the email accounts of Swedish journalists and political opponents by someone claiming to be former party member William Petzäll.
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Social Democrat cleared of Syrian kidnap plot link
Politics: 12 Sep 11
A Stockholm Social Democrat has been cleared of assisting in the attempted kidnap of the daughter of a top Syrian diplomat.
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'At least 15 countries' spying on Sweden: report
National: 17 Jun 11
Over fifteen countries are systematically conducting intelligence operations against Sweden, while security service Säpo has also carried out more probes into suspected cases of spying on refugees, the agency reported on Thursday.
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Sweden's spy laws need updating: Säpo
National: 24 May 11
Swedish Security Service (Säpo) thinks that Swedish laws on espionage are outdated while the government called for an inquiry last year following the discovery of under-cover investigations in Sweden.
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Suspected sub sighting sets Swedes on edge
National: 6 May 11
The Swedish military is investigating what could be a sighting of a foreign submarine in the Swedish archipelago after a Stockholm resident snapped a photo of a lurking mass on the surface while walking her dog.
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'Spy' PC at Swedish airport managed check in
National: 16 Feb 11
A computer found hidden at Jönköping Airport in central Sweden in a case of suspected industrial espionage has been found to have been part of routine cooperation between the IT department and an airline.
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Death penalty 'unlikely' for Assange: experts
Politics: 9 Feb 11
Claims by lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange that extradition to the United States could land him in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp or on death row are "impossible", according to experts.
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WikiLeaks' conspiracy theories laid bare
Analysis & Opinion: 7 Feb 11
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange enters the next round of his legal battle stemming from sex crime allegations in Sweden, The Local’s Karen Holst takes a look at some of the conspiracy theories surrounding Assange and his secret-divulging website.
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Sweden warns firms of cloud computing risks
Science & Technology: 2 Feb 11
Hundreds of Swedish companies have lost out on large international contracts after their secrets were leaked to competitors due to security breaches as a result of the explosion in cloud computing, a government agency has found.
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Swedish accusers in 'tizzy' for STDs: Assange
National: 21 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange alleged on Tuesday that the Swedish women who accused him of sexual assault got into a "tizzy" about possibly contracting a sexually transmitted disease from him.
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Extradition part of 'smear campaign': Assange
National: 17 Dec 10
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called attempts to extradite him to Sweden part of a "smear campaign" after he was granted bail in London.
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Record number appeal Swedish election result
Politics: 11 Oct 10
The Swedish Election Authority has received a record number of appeals from individuals requesting that all or part of the 2010 general election be redone.
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Sweden extends sentence for Uighur spy
National: 18 Sep 10
A Uighur previously convicted of passing information to China about other members of Sweden’s Uighur community had his sentence prolonged by a Swedish appeals court Friday.
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Assange: Swedish press freedoms 'most proven'
Science & Technology: 16 Aug 10
Julian Assange, the Australian founder of whistleblower website WikiLeaks, has praised Swedish legislation protecting the freedom of the press in a series of online chats with Swedish readers on Monday.
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Bildt: No US-Sweden talks over WikiLeaks
Politics: 6 Aug 10
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has denied that the US government has approached Sweden in connection with the website WikiLeaks amid reports that many of the Afghan War Diary documents pass through a Swedish web-host.
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Newspaper cleared over Guillou 'spy' affair
National: 2 Jun 10
Sweden's Press Council has freed the Expressen newspaper for its article series revealing that the prominent Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou had liaisons spanning five years with the Soviet intelligence service in the 1960s.
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Court to review access to Sweden's 'Stasi files'
National: 21 Apr 10
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court has taken up the case of a researcher who is applying for access to classified security police documents relating to Stasi contacts in Sweden.
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Sweden seeks law change to nab spies
Politics: 1 Apr 10
Justice minster Beatrice Ask has said she wants to make it easier to prosecute espionage suspects following allegations that a Swedish diplomat had fed sensitive EU documents to Russia.
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China rejects spy case findings
National: 9 Mar 10
China has strongly denied allegations that it illegally gathered information on members of the Uighur community after a Swedish court jailed a man for spying.
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Pensioner jailed for spying on Uighurs
National: 8 Mar 10
A 62-year-old Uighur living in Sweden as a political refugee since 1997 has been found guilty of spying for China on Uighur expatriates and sentenced to a year and four months in jail.
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Sahlin demands answers over KGB revelations
Politics: 26 Oct 09
Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin has called on writer Jan Guillou to lift the lid on any information he may have passed to the KGB about her party. Guillou has confessed to working for the KGB but insists his assignments were of a journalistic nature.
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Writer Guillou admits KGB connection
National: 24 Oct 09
Prominent Swedish author and journalist Jan Guillou had liaisons spanning five years with the Soviet intelligence service in the 1960s. Guillou maintains he was trying to reveal how the KGB was operating in Sweden.
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Documents cast doubt on Swede's spy conviction
National: 28 Sep 09
For the past 25 years the Swedish Security Service has been sitting on documents attesting to the innocence of a man charged in Sweden with espionage in 1983, a new investigation has revealed.
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Classified military documents missing
National: 22 Aug 09
The Swedish military has lost several hundred classified documents containing information about secret facilities throughout the north of the country.
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Presidency condemns Iran executions
Politics: 6 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency has spoken out against Iran's recent execution of 24 people by hanging.
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'Swedish spy threat at Cold War levels': report
National: 30 Jul 09
The threat of espionage faced by Sweden from foreign security services remains widespread, according to a new report from Swedish military intelligence.
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'Refugee spy' remanded into custody
Society: 6 Jun 09
A Swedish citizen of Chinese Uyghur decent who was arrested on suspicions of spying on refugees was remanded into custody on Friday on suspicions of gross unlawful espionage.
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Security police arrest 'refugee spy'
National: 4 Jun 09
Security police in Stockholm have arrested a Swedish citizen suspected of spying on refugees coming to Sweden from an undisclosed country.
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Engineer convicted in Saab blackmail case
Business & Money: 10 Nov 08
The 48-year-old engineer charged with attempting to blackmail Saab Microwave Systems for 16 million kronor ($2.1 million) was sentenced on Monday to four years in prison.
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Sweden-based former dissident bears no grudge against Kundera
Society: 13 Oct 08
A former Czech pilot now living in Sweden said he bore no ill will against Milan Kundera following reports on Monday that the writer informed on him to the secret police in the 1950s.
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Engineer charged in Saab blackmail case
Science & Technology: 6 Oct 08
Formal charges were filed on Monday against a 48-year-old engineer who has been held since July on suspicions of industrial espionage against Saab Microwave Systems in Gothenburg.
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Proposal to shield car companies from industrial spies
Politics: 30 Sep 08
A Riksdag member from Arjeplog in northern Sweden is proposing a new bill which may restrict one of Sweden’s most cherished rights in order to protect the auto industry from industrial espionage.
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Man arrested for spying on Saab
Business & Money: 11 Jul 08
A Gothenburg court has remanded in custody a man suspected of spying on Saab Microwave Systems.
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Russians plan to dodge Swedish spies
National: 11 Jul 08
Russian telecom operators have drawn up plans to re-route data and call traffic to avoid Swedish eavesdropping, according to reports in Russian papers.
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The third chair was for the spy
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 08
A new Swedish snoop law has sparked the wildest political debate in many years. Cold War press veteran David Bartal wonders why people seem so surprised.
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Migration Board ups cooperation with Säpo
National: 3 Jul 08
Säpo, Sweden’s security police, plans to work more closely with the Migration Board in a joint effort to combat refugee espionage.
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Swedish justice: A matter of interpretation
Analysis & Opinion: 26 May 08
As a growing array of languages jostle for position in the towns and suburbs of Sweden, Faisal Enayat Khan examines some linguistic shortcomings in the country's legal system.
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Swede linked to al-Qaeda
National: 8 Jan 08
Newly released documents indicate the involvement of a Swedish citizien in a group with ties to the al-Qaeda terrorist network.
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Why the Stasi came to Sweden
Lifestyle: 16 Aug 07
Following recent revelations surrounding Swedes who collaborated with the Stasi, The Local looks at the Cold War relationship between neutral Sweden and the GDR.
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'I spied for the Stasi'
Politics: 15 Aug 07
The Local speaks to a former Swedish journalist - codename König - who spied for the East German Stasi for the twenty year period leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 'I never spied on Sweden,' he says.
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Swedes spied for Stasi
National: 9 Aug 07
A network of Swedes delivered information to the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, during the Cold War, it has been revealed.
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Spy scandal: 'Be careful when you steal reports'
National: 15 May 07
New information has come to light about a Swedish lieutenant commander and her Serbian spy lover.
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Security Service reports suspected spy
National: 15 May 07
The Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) plans to report to the public prosecutor a woman suspected of feeding sensitive information to a Serbian spy while she served in Sweden's Kosovo force.
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Swedish soldier fed secrets to Serbian lover
National: 14 May 07
A female Swedish officer has been reported to an army disciplinary committee after it was alleged that she supplied a Serbian spy with sensitive information. The two were involved in a relationship at the time.
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Spy trial prosecutor calls for suspended sentences
Politics: 11 Apr 07
Per Jodenius and Niki Westerberg should be given suspended sentences, according to the public prosecutor. Speaking at the end of a two day-trial for the Liberal Party spying scandal, the prosecutor called for four further defendants to be fined.
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Guillou: I kinda like Condi
Lifestyle: 18 Aug 06
Ever the controversialist, Swedish novelist Jan Guillou's latest book deals with the touchiest subject of all: the Israel-Palestinian crisis. He talks to James Savage about America, Gay Pride and Säpo.
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Security police probe web site attack
National: 5 Jun 06
The Swedish Security Service has been called in to investigate a suspected hacker attack that crashed the government's web site on Sunday, amid speculation that it was revenge for the closure of a popular file sharing site.
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Iran minister confirms Swedes' sentence
National: 2 May 06
An Iranian minister has confirmed that two Swedish builders have been sentenced to three years in jail for spying.
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Swedes tried for spying in Iran
National: 24 Apr 06
Two Swedish nationals detained in Iran for photographing military installations have been tried for espionage and a verdict is expected in "due course".
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Sweden drops Russian spy probe
National: 7 Apr 06
A Russian researcher at a university in Uppsala accused of spying has been cleared after the investigation against him was dropped by Swedish prosecutors.
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Swedish superspy 'the eagle' dies
National: 28 Mar 06
Stig Wennerström, one of Sweden's most notorious spies, has died aged 99 at a retirement home near Stockholm. For over ten years at the height of the Cold War he exposed the Swedish military system to the Soviets.
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Russian spy suspect kept in custody
National: 16 Mar 06
A Russian man suspected of espionage against Sweden was remanded in custody for another two weeks by a Stockholm court on Thursday - a day after Russia demanded his immediate release.
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Russian spy suspect to remain in Swedish custody
National: 2 Mar 06
A Russian man suspected of espionage against Sweden was remanded in custody for another two weeks by a Stockholm court on Thursday.
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Spy incident "will damage Russian-Swedish relations"
National: 21 Feb 06
Russia warns that the arrest in Stockholm of one of its citizens on suspicion of spying risks damaging relations between the two countries.
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Suspected spy arrested in Sweden
National: 16 Feb 06
A man suspected of espionage has been arrested in Sweden, the country's intelligence agency Säpo said on Thursday, refusing to disclose details of the case.
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Sweden "must stop sending homosexuals back to Iran"
National: 23 Jul 05
The Swedish gay rights group RFSL calls for a halt to all deportations of homosexuals to Iran, saying two young men were hanged there this week for committing a "homosexual act".
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Eavesdropping restrictions could be lifted
National: 4 Jun 05
It could soon be easier for Swedish police and the security service to use electronic surveillance to spy on suspected terrorists. We have to sacrifice people's integrity to protect society and democracy, says justice minister Thomas Bodström.
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China "suspected of spying at Swedish universities"
National: 9 May 05
China could be using guest researchers at Swedish universities to spy and steal research, it is claimed. Swedish Radio says that a source from security service Säpo has told them that Stockholm's Karolinksa Institute has been targeted.
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Ericsson hacker charged with spying
National: 9 Mar 05
Want a job at Ericsson? Don't try to impress the bosses by hacking into the company’s computer system to expose its security flaws. A 26 year old Hungarian did just that and now he’s facing spy charges in Stockholm.
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Saab crisis a "national concern"
Smörgåsbord: 8 Oct 04
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Persson eyes closer ties with Finland
Smörgåsbord: 7 Oct 04
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20 things to know before moving to Sweden
As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
How far can English take you in Sweden?
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
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