Surveillance

The following articles have been tagged with "Surveillance":

University massacre threat suspect released

National: 17 Mar 10
The 33-year-old student held on suspicion of the massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has been released. READ »

Student expresses regret over massacre threat

National: 16 Mar 10
A 33-year-old man arrested in connection with a massacre threat at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm on Monday has expressed "deep regret" over his actions, as a wave of copycat threats spread across the country. READ »

US 'Jihad Jane' linked to plot to kill cartoonist

National: 10 Mar 10
An American woman known as "Jihad Jane" was charged by US authorities on Tuesday with conspiring to kill Swedish Muhammad cartoonist Lars Vilks. READ »

Police bust record studio cannabis ring

National: 9 Mar 10
Stockholm police have busted a network of cannabis growers. One of the suspects is a record producer who cultivated the plants in his studio. READ »

Sacked employee took revenge on grave of boss's daughter

National: 23 Feb 10
A 44-year-old woman in southern Sweden who was fired from her job took revenge on her boss by desecrating her daughter's grave. READ »

Police slammed over helicopter heist

National: 16 Feb 10
The Swedish police made several serious mistakes in connection with the helicopter heist robbery at Västberga cash depot in southern Stockholm last autumn, according to a former police superintendent. READ »

Sweden's Borg talks tough on Greece debt

Politics: 16 Feb 10
Sweden's finance minister Anders Borg has led the chorus of European partners calling on Greece to "surpass" market expectations in dealing with its debt crisis. READ »

Stockholm policeman warned after Thai brothel visit

Society: 8 Feb 10
A Stockholm police officer has been reminded of his responsibilities after being caught in a Thai massage parlour under surveillance by the vice squad. READ »

Ex-police chief remanded in sex ring probe

National: 28 Jan 10
A former police chief suspected of rape in an expanding sex ring investigation was remanded in custody on Thursday, despite his claims of innocence. A number of other well-known men are also said to be under investigation. READ »

Pensioner indicted over China spy scandal

National: 15 Dec 09
A 61-year-old pensioner has been indicted in Stockholm on charges of spying on behalf of the Chinese government. READ »

Anna Anka faces split with Hollywood husband after latest row

Society: 7 Dec 09
Singer-songwriter Paul Anka has filed for divorce from his Swedish wife Anna following a violent spat at the couple’s Hollywood home last week. READ »

Wife's pregnancy blamed for prostitute visit

Society: 26 Nov 09
A high-ranking manager at a Swedish state-owned company has admitted he paid for sex with a prostitute because he hadn’t had sex with his pregnant wife for five months. 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 »

Island thieves bag Viking treasure

Society: 2 Nov 09
Five hundred Viking era silver artifacts have been plundered from a site of archaeological interest on the Baltic island of Gotland. READ »

Left coalition partners in show of conference unity

Politics: 1 Nov 09
The Social Democrats welcomed their centre-left coalition partners, the Green and Left parties, to their ongoing conference on Sunday - the first time outside parties have taken part. READ »

Petrol station names and shames 'pump and run' thieves

National: 30 Oct 09
A petrol-station owner in Växjö in southern Sweden grew so tired of customers filling up and driving off without paying that he identified them with a photo at the entrance to his station. The man is now subject to a police investigation. READ »

How Aussie dad beat Swedish police to find kidnapped sons

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Oct 09
When Australian George Pesor's children were abducted by their mother on a visit to Sweden, police searched for six months without success. But when Pesor took matters into his own hands, he solved the case in just a week. READ »

Beltran demands retrial in rape case

National: 18 Oct 09
Swedish-Chilean opera singer and convicted rapist Tito Beltran has submitted a petition for a retrial in the Supreme Court. Beltran claims that former justice minister Thomas Bodström's involvement in the case amounted to a breach of the constitution. READ »

Swedish pastor fined for fingering figs

Society: 16 Oct 09
A Church of Sweden pastor has been convicted of shoplifting and ordered to pay a 5,100 kronor ($734) for stealing, among other things, a jar of figs marinated in cognac. READ »

Sweden passes divisive wiretapping law

Politics: 14 Oct 09
An amended version of Sweden's controversial new signals intelligence law was passed in the Riksdag on Wednesday, with 158 members voting in favour and 153 against, while one member abstained from voting. READ »

Cell phone owners could face TV licence fees

Science & Technology: 12 Oct 09
Swedish TV licensing body Radiotjänst has indicated that cell phone users may soon face licence fees as technological advances bring television to the mobile. READ »

Helicopter robbery - how it happened

National: 24 Sep 09
The Swedish police have been roundly criticized for their slow response to the audacious helicopter robbery of a cash depot in Västberga south of Stockholm on Wednesday. Here's how it happened. READ »

Swine flu vaccine to save billions in cash

Society: 19 Sep 09
The cost to society of the swine flu pandemic can be reduced by 2.5 billion Swedish crowns if six out of ten Swedes are vaccinated against the disease. READ »

Teen gangs suspected in Stockholm robberies

National: 16 Sep 09
Police in Stockholm are tracking a criminal gang of 14 to 17-year-olds suspected of carrying out a number of violent robberies in the city’s southern districts. READ »

Swedish police to publicly identify suspects

Society: 28 Aug 09
Police in Skåne in southern Sweden will shortly begin publishing pictures of criminal suspects on the police website, a practice that may soon be adopted all over the country. READ »

Sweden mulls EU summit to discuss crisis

Politics: 26 Aug 09
The Swedish EU presidency is considering calling an extraordinary EU summit in September to find common ground ahead of a G20 meeting about the global economic crisis in Pittsburgh. READ »

Prison for Stockholm counterfeiting ring

National: 22 Aug 09
A Swedish court on Friday sentenced six men to prison for their involvement in a major counterfeiting ring specializing in fake euro and dollar notes. READ »

The Local falls foul of Great Firewall of China

Science & Technology: 20 Aug 09
The Local has discovered that Chinese readers are unable to access "Sweden's News in English" as the site has been banned in the Asian country. READ »

Russia denies rumours of Arctic Sea sightings

National: 15 Aug 09
The Russian embassy in Cape Verde denied rumours that the Arctic Sea, a cargo ship that disappeared off the coast of Sweden at the end of July, had been sighted near the islands off the west coast of Africa. READ »

'Super bunker' houses Sweden's top criminals

National: 14 Aug 09
The new high security bunker at Kumla prison in central Sweden is now home to around a dozen of Sweden's most hardened criminals. The facility has space for 24 in total. READ »

Pirate Party to stand in local elections

Politics: 13 Aug 09
Sweden's Pirate Party has announced that, in addition to standing in next year's general election, it will also be represented in local council elections. READ »

'Hijackers could remain on board': coastguard

National: 12 Aug 09
A group of masked men alleged to have hijacked a cargo ship off the coast of Sweden last month could have remained on board the vessel when it passed through the English Channel, the British coastguard has claimed. READ »

'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. READ »

'EU Big Brother planning to watch you more closely'

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Jul 09
The European Union's wide-ranging Stockholm Programme risks further damaging citizens' hard earned privacy rights, argues Pirate Party member and libertarian commentator Henrik Alexandersson. READ »

Father of four held wife and kids captive

National: 13 Jul 09
A father of four in Uppsala is suspected of keeping his children home from school their entire lives. The children and the man's wife are also reported to have been illegally imprisoned in their home. READ »

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. READ »

Thirteen charged over counterfeit cash

Business & Money: 26 Jun 09
Thirteen people were indicted by a Swedish court on Thursday after being caught with 2.5 million kronor ($318,000) in counterfeit dollar and euro bills. READ »

Inmates commit crimes using prison phones

National: 26 Jun 09
Swedish inmates are routinely able to bypass blocks put on prison telephones, allowing them to make calls to fellow criminals with instructions for carrying out new crimes. READ »

Second man targeted by suspected rapist

National: 25 Jun 09
A man who raped another man at knifepoint early Sunday morning may have struck again, according to Stockholm police. READ »

Sweden expels Chinese diplomat: report

Politics: 22 Jun 09
The Swedish government has expelled a Chinese diplomat following revelations that the Chinese embassy was allegedly involved in spying on political refugees residing in Sweden. READ »

Swedish cops dump toilets to save money

Society: 22 Jun 09
The Malmö police department will stop at no lengths to refrain from spending a penny, employees learned recently. READ »

18-year-old serial rape suspect arrested

National: 15 Jun 09
An 18-year old man has been arrested on suspicion of three rapes in the Stockholm suburb Tensta and is suspected of an additional five rapes in Belgium. READ »

Sweden's political pirates signal internet's election power

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jun 09
If tech-savvy campaigning helped power Barack Obama to the White House, the election of Sweden's Pirate Party in Europe signals that internet and related privacy issues are political drivers for young voters, writes AFP's Marc Preel READ »

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. READ »

Swedish Pirate Ellen Söderberg is EU's youngest candidate

Analysis & Opinion: 29 May 09
Ellen Söderberg hopes she'll soon be walking the corridors of EU power. But for now she's making do with school corridors: "People think I’m more mature, some think I’m crazy, some think I’m the coolest girl in school.” READ »

Spy ship rescues Russian fishermen

National: 18 May 09
A Swedish surveillance ship operating near Russian territorial waters off Kaliningrad in the Baltic Sea has saved two Russian fisherman from drowning. READ »

Opposition makes comeback in new poll

Politics: 17 May 09
The opposition has increased its lead over Sweden's Alliance government according to a new opinion poll by Sifo. READ »

Armed gang attacks trendy Malmö nightclub

National: 16 May 09
A group of 10 to 15 young men armed with sticks and rocks attacked Slagthuset nightclub in central Malmö on Friday night. The entryway was destroyed, but none of the bouncers were seriously injured. READ »

Outrage over licence fee demand for CCTV

Science & Technology: 14 May 09
Swedish business owners are up in arms over a recent push by the country’s television licencing bureau to collect fees from companies using surveillance cameras. READ »

Call for probe into Sweden-CIA terror links

Politics: 8 May 09
Two prominent Left Party politicians are calling for Sweden to set up an independent truth commission to look into how Sweden cooperated with the United States during the war on terror. READ »

Swede held for child sex crimes in Cambodia

National: 8 May 09
A Swedish man in his sixties has been arrested in Cambodia on suspicions of sexually assaulting a 12-year-old boy. READ »

'File sharing law goes too far': Swedish EU election candidates

Science & Technology: 4 May 09
A clear majority of the Swedish candidates seeking election to the EU parliament are against the IPRED copyright law, arguing that EU countries have gone too far in the hunt for file-sharers. READ »

Sweden spied on CIA 'terror flights': report

National: 24 Apr 09
The government led by former Prime Minister Göran Persson knew that Sweden was used as a transit destination for clandestine CIA flights transporting suspected terrorists, according to reports that emerged on Friday. READ »

Credit card fraudsters target Ikea

Society: 21 Apr 09
Police have launched a credit card fraud investigation after employees at an Ikea in central Sweden discovered a suspicious device attached to one of the store’s card payment machines. READ »

'Ferrari Swede' arrested in Stockholm

National: 31 Mar 09
Stefan Eriksson, the reputed Swedish gangster who made global headlines when he crashed an exclusive Ferrari in Malibu, California in 2006, was arrested in Stockholm on Monday on suspicions of blackmail and other crimes. READ »

Counterfeiting ring exposed in Stockholm

National: 25 Mar 09
Police near Stockholm have broken up a major counterfeiting ring specializing in US dollars and euros. READ »

'Frozen' truck driver trapped in industrial oven

Society: 16 Mar 09
An attempt by a truck driver with a chill to warm himself in an industrial oven has prompted a reaction from Sweden’s work safety agency. READ »

Two men found dead in Stockholm apartment

National: 14 Mar 09
Police in Stockholm are on Saturday continuing to search for those responsible for a double murder on Södermalm on Friday evening. READ »

School shooting threat was 'a joke'

National: 12 Mar 09
The threat of a massacre at a school in southern Sweden was only a joke, according to the boy who confessed to posting it on the internet. READ »

Newspaper thief claims crossword jackpot

National: 3 Mar 09
A 64-year-old woman has been arrested in Uppsala on suspicion of theft. The woman stole up to ten newspapers twice a week - to do the crossword, winning more than 10,000 kronor ($1100). READ »

Woman forgets life savings on Gothenburg tram

Society: 1 Mar 09
An elderly Swedish woman lost her 500,000 kronor ($56,000) life savings when she left them on a Gothenburg tram on the way to the bank. READ »

Swedish man missing in France

National: 28 Feb 09
A 21-year-old Swedish man has been reported missing in France. The man left a bar in Le Mans on Sunday night and has not been seen since. READ »

Suspect denies involvement in Eskilstuna hotel fire

National: 27 Feb 09
The 37-year-old man arrested for his suspected role a starting a fire which consumed part of an Eskilstuna hotel on Wednesday has denied any wrongdoing. READ »

Swedish parliament passes copyright bill

Politics: 25 Feb 09
As expected, the Riksdag passed a controversial new measure on Wednesday designed to make it easier to investigate suspected cases of illegal file sharing. READ »

Agencies slam FRA-law revisions

National: 24 Feb 09
Changes to Sweden’s wiretapping law have been met with stinging criticism in a new round of comments by two government agencies. READ »

Swedes sought in Germany following neo-Nazi violence

National: 16 Feb 09
Police in Germany have issued an arrest warrant for three Swedes suspected in a roadside attack by a group of neo-Nazis against left-wing activists in eastern Germany on Saturday. READ »

Swedish intelligence official quits over wiretapping law

Politics: 16 Feb 09
A high-ranking Moderate Party politician and former defence minister has resigned from his post as head of Sweden’s intelligence oversight agency in protest against the country’s controversial wiretapping law. READ »

The Pirate Bay: 'Political trial of the decade'

Analysis & Opinion: 11 Feb 09
Next week sees the start of the long-awaited Pirate Bay trial. With the eyes of the world on Sweden, Pirate Party leader Rick Falkvinge argues that there is much more at stake than the future of the site's operators. READ »

'Internet rapist' enrolled in computer security class

National: 6 Feb 09
One of Sweden’s most notorious rapists who made contact with his victims over the internet, successfully enrolled in a distance learning course on computer security offered by a Swedish university. READ »

Triple murderer released from jail

National: 2 Feb 09
A Finnish man sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of three members of the same family in northern Sweden in 1988 was let out of jail on Monday morning. READ »

Camera ban hinders hunt for Swedish sea monster

Science & Technology: 31 Jan 09
Sweden's legendary Great Lake Sea Monster (Storsjöodjuret) remains the focus of photographers hunting for its image despite a Jämtland county council order banning cameras by the lake. READ »

Military offers proposal on defence cuts

Politics: 30 Jan 09
Sweden’s top military commander on Friday handed over to the government a lengthy report detailing a range of proposed reductions to the country’s armed forces. READ »

New police taskforces to tackle organized crime

National: 15 Jan 09
In an effort to combat the spread of organized crime in Sweden, police plan to create nine nationally-led taskforces to fight criminal gangs, drug smugglers, and other gang-related criminals. READ »

Police bust international narcotics ring

National: 11 Jan 09
A major international drug smuggling ring has been busted in an operation involving police in Norway and Sweden. More three quarters of a tonne of narcotics has been seized and 30 people are under arrest. READ »

Jews in Sweden under increasing threat

Politics: 7 Jan 09
Police in Sweden are on heightened alert following a spike in anti-Semitic attacks around the country in the wake of Israel’s campaign against Gaza-based Hamas militants. READ »

Police hire protection in Malmö suburb

National: 31 Dec 08
The police have contracted a security firm to help with the surveillance and protection of the police station in the Malmö suburb of Rosengård. Rioting youths and vandals have recently targeted the station. READ »

Casino gunman remains on the loose

National: 26 Dec 08
The police chase for the gunman who injured three people at the Casino Cosmopol in Stockholm on Christmas Eve has so far returned little result. On Boxing Day morning the man remained on the loose. READ »

Release date set for triple murderer

National: 17 Dec 08
Nikita Fouganthine, the man responsible for the brutal murders of three people in a village in northern Sweden in 1988, is to be released from jail in February, a Helsinki court ruled on Wednesday. READ »

Four in custody after major cannabis bust in Stockholm

National: 12 Dec 08
Police in Stockholm confiscated 140 kilogrammes of cannabis and arrested four men last weekend in raids carried out at several suburban locations last weekend. READ »

Saab slams Norway's Gripen rejection

Science & Technology: 10 Dec 08
Swedish aerospace group Saab has publicly denounced Norway for choosing an American-made aircraft over Saab’s Gripen, claiming the decision was based on “unfounded” assumptions and “faulty analysis”. READ »

Are Swedish taxes too high?

Analysis & Opinion: 3 Dec 08
Every week we ask a panel of readers for their views on a particular topic relating to life in Sweden. This week, we wonder whether Swedish taxes rock the panelists’ cradle or have them wishing for an early grave. READ »

Anger over Norway's fighter plane rejection

National: 21 Nov 08
A former Saab executive lashed out at the Norwegian government on Friday over its handling of a decision to reject the Gripen in favour of the American F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. READ »

Prison sentences for people smugglers

National: 12 Nov 08
Two men at the heart of a massive people smuggling operation were each sentenced to three years in prison by a Swedish court on Wednesday. READ »

Licence to spy: Sony snoops on Bond fans

Society: 5 Nov 08
Sony Pictures in Sweden has employed methods worthy of James Bond in an attempt to protect against the pirating of Quantum of Solace. READ »

Thieves hit Gothenburg shipping terminal

National: 3 Nov 08
Police believe a gang of organized criminals is behind the bold weekend heist of two trailers filled with valuable electronics from a Stena Line shipping terminal in Gothenburg. READ »

Nuke plant faulted for using janitors as guards

Science & Technology: 31 Oct 08
A decision by management of Sweden’s Oskarshamn nuclear power plant to have custodial workers stand in as guards has drawn a sharp rebuke from the country’s nuclear regulatory authority. READ »

Sahlin calls for privacy ombudsman

Politics: 3 Oct 08
The Social Democrats want to create an ombudsman to help protect individuals’ privacy in Sweden, party leader Mona Sahlin told Sveriges Radio. READ »

Sweden condemns surveillance in schools

Education: 2 Oct 08
Sweden’s Data Inspection Board (Datainspektionen – DI) has demanded that seven schools change their use of surveillance cameras in a decision it hopes will set a precedent for schools across the country. READ »

The Panel: Daniel Nyström

Lifestyle: 1 Oct 08
Get acquainted with the members of our regular readers panel. READ »

Upstart Swedish stock exchange loses licence

Business & Money: 1 Oct 08
Financial authorities in Sweden said on Wednesday they were withdrawing the licence of the NGM Stock Exchange for actions which have violated the “trust and confidence” of the agency. READ »

Cab driver cleared of false rape allegations

National: 29 Sep 08
A young Swedish couple has been charged with bearing false witness after the woman reported she had been raped by a cab driver when the driver tried to get the couple to pay for their ride. READ »

Police hit Stockholm drug smuggling ring

National: 26 Sep 08
Police in Stockholm believe they have cracked an international drug smuggling syndicate after confiscating hundreds of kilos of drugs in several recent raids. READ »

Government unites around new FRA-law

Politics: 26 Sep 08
Sweden’s centre-right Alliance government announced a new version of the country’s controversial surveillance law on Thursday, claiming it had succeeded in making changes to the measure which satisfy critics of the original bill. READ »

Goverment getting closer to surveillance law compromise

Politics: 25 Sep 08
A proposal to introduce a special court to decide when Sweden can monitor cross-border communications traffic is expected to help unify the governing parties around a new version of the country’s controversial surveillance law. READ »

Malmö nightclub tips: September 19 - 20

Lifestyle: 18 Sep 08
Going out in Malmö has never been easier as The Local teams up with the knowledgeable nightlifers at Djungeltrumman to help point you in the right direction. READ »

Riksdag opening met with FRA-law protests

Politics: 16 Sep 08
Several hundred demonstrators marched from Sergels Torg in central Stockholm to the steps of the Riksdag on Tuesday to protest Sweden’s surveillance law. READ »

Report: Moderates 'abusive' toward FRA-law detractor

Politics: 15 Sep 08
As Sweden prepares for renewed debate of the controversial surveillance bill, new details have emerged about the strong-arm tactics employed by Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt to ensure the bill passed an initial Riksdag vote in June. READ »