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Israel deports Swedish Gaza flotilla activist

National: 20 Jul 11
Swedish–Israeli artist and politician Dror Feiler is among the 15 activists apprehended by Israeli soldiers from the boat Dignité on course for the Gaza strip and is set to be deported today, Israeli immigration authorities have confirmed. READ »

Ship to Gaza hit by cyber attack

National: 18 Jul 11
The website of Swedish Ship to Gaza has been subjected to a cyber attack, in the latest setback to befall the aid and protest convoy the Freedom Flotilla II. READ »

'We won't give up - we will return': Mankell

National: 8 Jul 11
Swedish bestselling crime author Henning Mankell slammed Greece for blocking the aid flotilla to Gaza as some of Sweden's pro-Palestinian activists returned home on Thursday. READ »

Gaza flotilla group sets sail from Athens

National: 7 Jul 11
Greek authorities' ongoing ban on vessels bound for Gaza has lost the Swedish activists a large cement order, according to Ship to Gaza Sweden, who were finally permitted to leave Athens on Wednesday. READ »

Swedish Ship to Gaza express 'grief and dismay' at Greek authorities

Politics: 5 Jul 11
The Swedish-based Ship to Gaza rights group on Monday expressed their dismay at Greece's decision to block the humanitarian flotilla from sailing to the Palestinian territory. READ »

Israel rejects Gaza ship claims as 'Bond-esque'

National: 29 Jun 11
Israeli authorities have rejected claims by the Swedish Ship to Gaza movement that "foreign agents" were behind the damage to their boat, which was reported sabotaged on Monday. READ »

Swedish Gaza flotilla ship sabotaged: report

National: 28 Jun 11
The ship scheduled to carry the Swedish activists in the Ship to Gaza flotilla at the end of the week has been sabotaged in its berth in Greece, the organisation reported on Monday. READ »

Mankell to sail on next Gaza aid flotilla

National: 25 May 11
Swedish thriller writer Henning Mankell has been confirmed as one of the participants in the next international aid flotilla seeking to bring aid to Gaza at the end of June. READ »

Ship to Gaza lawyer to file Israel police report

National: 9 Nov 10
Ship to Gaza, the Swedish organisation behind a Gaza-bound aid ship boarded in May by Israeli commandos, has retained plans to file a complaint with Israeli police despite the expulsion of two of its members from Israel on Sunday. READ »

Ship to Gaza Swedes denied entry to Israel

National: 8 Nov 10
Israel expelled a Swedish MP of Turkish origin who had been on a Gaza-bound aid ship intercepted in May by Israeli commandos, the interior ministry announced on Sunday. READ »

Anger over Ship to Gaza Swedes' return to Israel

Politics: 5 Nov 10
Two Swedes who were detained earlier this year following an Israeli raid on the Ship to Gaza convoy plan to return to Israel to file an official complaint with police, angering the Israeli embassy in Stockholm. READ »

Introducing the Greens

Analysis & Opinion: 8 Sep 10
Here's a look at the Green Party, bidding to assume power within the centre-left Red-Green coalition and become Sweden's third largest party. READ »

Ship to Gaza to set sail again

National: 4 Aug 10
The organisers of an aid flottilla Ship to Gaza said in Stockholm on Wednesday they would make a new attempt to reach the Palestinian territory before the end of 2010. READ »

Mankell's bag returned - with women's clothes

National: 30 Jul 10
Swedish novelist and Ship to Gaza participant Henning Mankell has had his bag returned to him by Israeli authorities - filled with women's clothes. READ »

Mankell calls for release of Israeli soldier

National: 6 Jul 10
Swedish crime writer and Ship to Gaza activist Henning Mankell has called on Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit from Palestinian custody. READ »

Swedish dockers launch Israeli goods blockade

National: 23 Jun 10
The Swedish Dock Workers Union on Wednesday launched a blockade of Israeli cargo in protest against the deadly raid on the Gaza-bound freedom flotilla last month, union representatives have confirmed. READ »

Bildt rejects Israel boycott calls

Politics: 7 Jun 10
Sweden will not boycott Israeli goods or break its relations to Israel, foreign minister Carl Bildt has said in a response to opposition demands in a parliamentary debate on the Israeli boarding of the Ship to Gaza aid convoy. READ »

Organizer: ship deaths 'premeditated murder'

National: 3 Jun 10
The Swedish organizer of the Ship to Gaza, Mattias Gardell, told journalists on his return to Stockholm that the Israelis had committed “premeditated murder” and were guilty of piracy. READ »

What do the Swedish Gaza activists hope to achieve?

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Jun 10
The Ship to Gaza incident was, to say the least, badly handled by Israel. The blockade of Gaza is wrong. But Swedish activists need to ask themselves tough questions about the consequences of their actions, says Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou. READ »

Swedes in Israeli custody after aid convoy attack

National: 1 Jun 10
Swedish author Henning Mankell was one of eleven Swedes held on arrival in Israel Monday after their Gaza-bound aid flotilla was attacked by Israeli commandos. All the Swedes have now been located, the foreign ministry has confirmed. READ »

Mankell status unknown after aid convoy attack

National: 31 May 10
The whereabouts of Swedish author Henning Mankell and the other ten Swedish activists onboard ships in the Gaza aid flotilla attacked by Israeli troops, remained unknown as the ships began to dock on Monday afternoon. READ »

Sweden calls on Israel to clarify aid convoy attack

National: 31 May 10
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt has summoned the Israeli ambassador to explain reports that Israeli armed forces have boarded the "Ship to Gaza" humanitarian convoy, killing at least ten people. READ »

Mankell joins Swedish 'Ship to Gaza'

National: 27 May 10
The crime author Henning Mankell is among eleven Swedes on the Ship to Gaza - a flotilla of small ships heading over the Mediterranean aiming to raise awareness and show solidarity for the Palestinian people. READ »

What's on in Sweden: August 7 -13

Lifestyle: 6 Aug 09
What's on in Sweden: Culture Festival and new circus in Stockholm; International jazz festival in Gothenburg; Soha (Fr/DZ) & Festival for Gaza in Malmö. READ »


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