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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. READ »

UK court defers Assange extradition appeal

National: 14 Jul 11
Judges in the UK High Court on Wednesday deferred their decision an appeal by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange against his extradition to Sweden to face allegations of rape and sexual assault. READ »

Sweden slams Assange team over appeal

National: 13 Jul 11
Lawyers representing Swedish prosecutors accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's representatives of having a "19th century" attitude to sexual consent as they opposed the Australian's bid to have an extradition order overturned. READ »

Assange lawyers pursue 'low-key' approach

National: 13 Jul 11
Lawyers representing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in his battle to overturn a decision to extradite him from the UK to Sweden to face rape allegations, are following a less "bombastic" approach to their client's defence. READ »

Lawyer: Assange a victim of judicial mismatch

National: 12 Jul 11
WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange arrived at the High Court in London on Tuesday to open his appeal against a ruling to extradite him to Sweden to face allegations of rape. READ »

Assange prepares for Sweden extradition fight

National: 11 Jul 11
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will on Tuesday begin his appeal against a UK court ruling to extradite him to Sweden to face rape and sexual assault allegations. READ »

UK bail conditions 'dehumanising': Assange

National: 16 Jun 11
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Thursday blasted the conditions of his ongoing detention in the UK as "excessive" six months after he was granted conditional bail in his fight against extradition to Sweden to face sex crimes allegations. READ »

Outgoing US ambassador to Sweden looks back

Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 11
In the final days of his shortened term as US ambassador to Sweden, Matthew Barzun tells The Local's David Landes about what Sweden can teach the world about balance as he prepares to help US President Barack Obama get reelected. READ »

WikiLeaks slams paper after Gitmo Swede leak

National: 27 Apr 11
Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has slammed a Swedish tabloid as 'corrupt and politicized' the day after it published a scoop on Swedish Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali. READ »

US held Swedish terror suspect 'for information'

National: 26 Apr 11
Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, not because he had committed a crime, but to provide information about terrorist recruiting methods, according to documents made public by WikiLeaks. READ »

Assange to be extradited to Sweden: UK court

National: 24 Feb 11
A UK court has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over sex crimes allegations. His lawyers have said they will appeal the decision. READ »

Swedish prosecutor awaits Assange ruling

Society: 24 Feb 11
A UK court will on Thursday morning rule on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be extradited to Sweden to face rape charges. READ »

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. READ »

Sweden denies plans to extradite Assange to US

National: 12 Jan 11
The lawyer of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's has accused Swedish authorities of secretly planning to extradite him to the US in a German media report. READ »

Assange team attack 'corrupt' Swedish lawyers

National: 11 Jan 11
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's lawyers have accused Swedish prosecutors of "corrupt" behaviour in their attempts to extradite him on rape allegations. READ »

Denmark terror plan 'destined to fail': expert

National: 1 Jan 11
A foiled terrorist plot involving three Swedes who planned an attack on a Danish newspaper was destined to fail, a Swedish terrorism expert said on Saturday. READ »

Swede suspects once arrested in Pakistan

National: 30 Dec 10
Two of the Swedish citizens arrested following a foiled terror plot against a Danish newspaper have previously been arrested in Pakistan. READ »

Swedish terror suspects remanded in custody

National: 30 Dec 10
Three men from Sweden were remanded in custody by a Danish court on Thursday after police foiled their plot against a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad. READ »

Sweden could be a 'catalyst of understanding' after attack

Analysis & Opinion: 21 Dec 10
While Sweden is left asking why after experiencing its first suicide bombing, Fulbright scholar and US Muslim Dr. Abdul-Majeed Azad calls on the country to deploy its history of neutrality to build bridges across Europe to defeat the radicalisation of Muslim youth. READ »

Bomber believed to be former sports student

National: 12 Dec 10
Saturday’s suicide attack in Stockholm is believed to have been carried out by a 29-year-old man from the town of Tranås in southern Sweden, who studied sports science in England. READ »

Sweden Democrats slam unions over freeze out

Politics: 29 Sep 10
Active Sweden Democrats will not be allowed to be members in one of Sweden's main healthcare professionals unions, the chair of the labour group said on Wednesday, prompting claims from the party that they are "politically corrupt." READ »

Lawyers explain Pakistan trip by 'Guantánamo Swede'

National: 23 Nov 09
Lawyers representing a former Swedish terror suspect who spent time in the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison, claim their client was not traveling to any trouble spots when he was arrested in Pakistan in August. READ »

Pakistan Swedes arrive home

National: 11 Oct 09
The four Swedes deported from Pakistan arrived at Stockholm Arlanda airport late on Saturday night. They were met by plain clothes police and appeared tired from their ordeal. READ »

Terror suspect Swedes freed from Pakistan

National: 10 Oct 09
The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed that four Swedish citizens, arrested in Pakistan in August as terrorist suspects, have been released and put on a flight to Stockholm. READ »

Obama Nobel win shocks Swedish peace group

Politics: 9 Oct 09
The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society has classified as "shameful" the decision by the Nobel Committee in Oslo to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 to Barack Obama. READ »

Pakistan to free Swede held in terror probe

National: 7 Oct 09
The 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son, who have been imprisoned in Pakistan since August, are to be released “shortly”, according to the Swedish foreign ministry. READ »

Swede held in Pakistan 'refuses to be released': official

National: 29 Sep 09
A 19-year-old Swedish woman is still being held in Islamabad after having declined several times to be released without her husband, Pakistani officials report. READ »

Mystery grows over whereabouts of Pakistan Swedes

National: 27 Sep 09
The Swedish embassy in Islamabad has denied that 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son have been released by the Pakistani authorities, as reports continue to circulate indicating their imminent return to Sweden. READ »

Swedish woman freed in Pakistan terror probe

National: 25 Sep 09
Safia Benaouda, the 19-year-old Swedish woman arrested in Pakistan earlier in September in the company of former Guantanamo inmate Mehdi Ghezali, is reported to have been released, according to local media. READ »

Swedish officials meet suspects in Pakistan terror probe

National: 23 Sep 09
Official from Sweden's embassy in Islamabad have met with four Swedish terror suspects currently detained in a Pakistani prison, the foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. READ »

Woman 'not a suspect' in Pakistan terror probe

National: 17 Sep 09
The head of the Muslim Council of Sweden, Helena Benaouda, expressed relief on Thursday that her daughter, arrested three weeks ago along with her child and two other Swedes, is not considered a terror suspect by Pakistani authorities. READ »

Terror suspect Swedes still detained: Pakistan

National: 16 Sep 09
Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday confirmed that four Swedish citizens are sitting in prison in the capital Islamabad, three weeks after their arrest in the north of the country. READ »

Four Swedes in Pakistan terror probe

National: 14 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that four Swedish citizens - three adults and a child - are being held in Pakistan, where authorities are investigating whether the group has ties to Al-Qaeda. READ »

Sweden confirms Pakistan arrests

National: 13 Sep 09
Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Saturday that three Swedes have been arrested in Pakistan. READ »

'Guantánamo Swede' arrested in Pakistan

National: 11 Sep 09
One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison in 2004. READ »

'Isolationism is passé - Sweden needs to join NATO': Liberals

Analysis & Opinion: 12 May 09
With neutrality outdated and Sweden unable to effectively defend it's borders, the country needs to set aside its hang-ups and start thinking seriously about joining NATO, argues Birgitta Ohlsson, foreign policy spokesperson for the Liberal Party. READ »

Swedish court grants asylum to ex-Guantanamo prisoner

National: 18 Feb 09
A Swedish court has overturned a deportation order for a former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China. READ »

Reinfeldt: 'US responsible for Guantanamo inmates'

Politics: 24 Jan 09
Sweden's Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt reiterated Friday his government's reluctance to accept former Guantanamo Bay detainees after US President Barack Obama pledged to close the prison. READ »

Former Guantanamo prisoner deported

National: 19 Jun 08
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner from China is to be deported from Sweden, according to a decision by the Swedish Migration Board. READ »

Swedes enjoy 'Jesus in Guantanamo'

Society: 3 May 08
A comedy show entitled 'Jesus: The Guantanamo Years' by Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman has proved a hit with Swedes on YouTube. READ »

Unibet CEO released on bail

National: 1 Nov 07
The Swedish CEO of betting company Unibet was released on bail by a French court on Wednesday. Commenting on his release, Petter Nylander said that Unibet had "always stayed within the law". READ »

Unibet chief 'to be sent to France'

National: 24 Oct 07
The Swedish CEO of Unibet is to be handed over to French authorities next week, a Dutch court has ruled. But the court in Amsterdam said that Petter Nylander could be released from police custody. READ »

Unibet CEO to make court appearance

National: 24 Oct 07
The Swedish CEO of betting company Unibet is to appear before a Dutch court on Wednesday afternoon. Unibet's head lawyer described his client's arrest and detention as "Guantanamo treatment". READ »

Swedish terror suspect appears before New York court

National: 26 Sep 07
A Lebanese-born Swedish man arrived in the United States Tuesday to face terrorism-related charges after being extradited by the Czech Republic. "Mr. Judge, are you a better judge than a judge in Sweden? They don't judge me in Sweden," he told the New York court. READ »

Swedish terror suspect extradited to United States

Politics: 25 Sep 07
A Swedish terror suspect has been extradited from the Czech Republic to the United States almost two years after his initial arrest. READ »

Guantánamo Swede gives up case against US

National: 14 Aug 07
A Swedish former Guantánamo Bay prisoner has given up on attempts to sue the United States government for damages. Mehdi Ghezali was imprisoned in the American military base on Cuba for more than two years. READ »

'Enemy combatant' lived in Sweden

National: 14 Aug 07
A man who previously lived in Sweden as an asylum seeker, and is now imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, has been officially classed by US authorities as an 'enemy combatant'. READ »

Sweden 'risks becoming terror base'

National: 6 Aug 07
Sweden's security service, Säpo, has warned that the country risks becoming a base for recruitment of terrorists. READ »

Sweden and Cuba in diplomatic crisis

Politics: 21 Mar 07
Diplomatic ties between Sweden and Cuba are fraught following suspicions that Cuba may have opened Swedish diplomatic post. A Cuban UN delegate has also accused Sweden of ethnic cleansing. READ »

"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. READ »

Swede appears in Morocco terror court

National: 12 Jan 07
A Swede has appeared in a court in Morocco on Friday accused of participating in a recruitment network for foreign jihadis in Iraq. READ »

CIA plane story unfounded - Freivalds

National: 18 Nov 05
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Foreign minister Laila Freivalds has dismissed claims that CIA planes could have landed at Swedish airports, saying "the whole story is as flat as a pancake". The media aren't so sure. READ »

Sweden begins "quick" CIA plane investigation

Smörgåsbord: 17 Nov 05
Sweden launches an investigation after reports that planes used by the CIA landed at Swedish airports. And the government wants the report back within three weeks. READ »

Political storm grows over CIA planes

Politics: 16 Nov 05
The news that aircraft used by America's CIA touched down at several of Sweden's airports has not gone down well with the government's coalition partners, the Left Party and the Greens. No comment, says the Prime Minister. READ »

CIA planes used Swedish airports

National: 14 Nov 05
At least two planes used by the CIA have landed at Swedish airports, according to news agency TT. Arlanda, Örebro, Sturup and Bromma airports have all hosted the organisation's aircraft. READ »

Sweden "made promises" over Guantanamo release

National: 27 Sep 05
"No guarantees" said the Swedish government when Mehdi Ghezali was released from the Guantanamo base on Cuba. But according to a TV programme, Sweden agreed to keep Ghezali under observation and to report back to the United States. READ »

Swede loses EU terror link case

National: 21 Sep 05
A Somali-Swede who had all his assets frozen after he appeared on a UN terror list has lost his case in a European court. His lawyers say they will appeal, claiming that the ruling is political. READ »

"Prisoner of Guantanamo" Ghezali to sue Rumsfeld

National: 17 Mar 05
Mehdi Ghezali, who spent over two years in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison camp, is set to sue US Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld "for millions". Coincidentally, a new book is out, detailing his story from arrest in Pakistan to his special Säpo home-coming in Örebro. READ »

Guantanamo Swede seeks damages

National: 23 Jul 04
Mehdi Ghezali speaks out against his American captors and the Swedish government, defends his actions in 2001 - and wants some cash. READ »

Guantanamo Swede released

National: 9 Jul 04
Mehdi Ghezali is released from Guantanamo Bay after two and a half years' imprisonment. READ »

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