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Five reasons I can't stand skiing: an Aussie's pain

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 12
Having just returned from a ‘horror ski trip’, The Local’s resident Aussie and first-time skier Oliver Gee wonders why Swedes find such pleasure in hurling themselves down snowy hills. READ »

Cop suspected of 'torturing' accused doc

Society: 25 Jan 12
A police officer who deprived a 57-year-old anesthesiologist of sleep while she was in custody in connection with a high profile case of the death of a prematurely born baby girl is now suspected of professional misconduct. READ »

Seven charged after burning victim with iron

National: 5 Jan 12
Seven men in central Sweden have been charged with kidnapping and aggravated assault after having abducted and tortured a man, burning him with an iron and hitting him with computer cables. READ »

Record sentence for Stockholm puppy torturer

National: 21 Dec 11
A 22-year-old man from southern Stockholm got 15 months in prison on Wednesday for ”sadistically” torturing a puppy to death, a sentence that may well be the longest ever in an animal cruelty case in Sweden. READ »

Sweden refuses to release CIA flight info

National: 19 Dec 11
When two human rights organizations asked 28 countries for information in order to map out CIAs secret air transports of terror suspects, Sweden was one of three countries refusing to give out any details. READ »

Assange's mother slams Swedish legal system

National: 2 Nov 11
The mother of Julian Assange lashed out at the Swedish judicial system on Wednesday, claiming her son's "human rights" would be at risk after he is extradited to Sweden. READ »

WikiLeaks and Julian Assange: a timeline

Analysis & Opinion: 2 Nov 11
A timeline of WikiLeak's rise to prominence and subsequent attempts to clamp down on the site and extradite its founder, Julian Assange, who on Wednesday lost an appeal of his extradition to Sweden to answer questions sex crimes accusations. READ »

Making fun of slavery belittles black people

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Nov 11
The dropping of a hate speech case against students who staged a "slave auction" at Lund University clears the way for racists and contravenes Swedish human rights commitments, representatives from anti-racism groups argue. READ »

Sweden 'not wrong' to okay genocide suspect extradition: court

National: 27 Oct 11
Sweden's decision to extradite a Rwandan national facing war crimes allegations in his home country is not against the European convention, according to the European Court of Human Rights. READ »

Bildt slams paper over 'amateur' reporting

Politics: 17 Oct 11
With the trial of two Swedish journalists on terror charges set to open in Ethiopia on Tuesday, foreign minister Carl Bildt hit back at the Dagens Nyheter newspaper over what he called faulty reporting on his alleged interests in the case. READ »

Swedish MPs tout assisted suicide

Politics: 11 Oct 11
A secretive network of Swedish MPs has been formed to push for a legalisation of assisted suicide with the group's founder comparing the issue to the abortion debate in the 1970s. READ »

Deportees: CIA behind torture interrogations

National: 5 Oct 11
Two Egyptians who were forcibly deported to Egypt from Sweden by CIA agents in 2001 have blamed the US spy agency for the torture they received in their home country. READ »

Swede charged for 'sadistic' puppy torture

National: 29 Sep 11
On Thursday a man from Solberga, in southern Stockholm, was charged for torturing his puppy to death. READ »

Global activists receive 'Alternative Nobel' prize

Society: 29 Sep 11
A Chadian lawyer, an international agricultural rights group, a US safe childbirth advocate and a Chinese engineer will share the 2011 Right Livelihood Award, often dubbed the "Alternative Nobel," organisers said Thursday. READ »

Dawit Isaak case a 'huge failure for Swedish diplomacy'

Politics: 22 Sep 11
As the 10th anniversary of Dawit Isaak's arrest approaches, the Swedish-Eritrean journalist remains jailed without charge or trial, despite countless efforts to secure his release, the AFP's Rita Devlin Marier explains. READ »

Örebro man jailed for Togo coup attempt

National: 16 Sep 11
A naturalised Swedish citizen from Togo in western Africa, has been convicted of staging a coup against the regime there, leaving his family back in Örebro in central Sweden devastated with the surprise verdict. READ »

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. READ »

'We were all Americans, at least for a while'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact. READ »

Students jailed for killing former teacher

National: 15 Aug 11
The man charged with beating a 54-year-old Swedish schoolteacher to death in April was sentenced to nine years in prison on Monday, with his two accomplices receiving shorter prison terms. READ »

'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. READ »

CIA rendition deportee: 'Sweden is responsible'

National: 15 Aug 11
Ahmed Agiza, who was flown out of Sweden to Egypt by the CIA in 2001 where he was imprisoned until last week, has claimed that Sweden needs to take responsibility for what happened to him. READ »

CIA terror deportee released from Cairo jail

National: 11 Aug 11
Ahmed Agiza, one of the two Egyptians whose 2001 deportation from Sweden to Egypt caused a political scandal and who has been jailed since then, has now been released from a Cairo prison, according to media reports. READ »

Former students face prison for teacher killing

National: 27 Jun 11
The trial of three suspects for the killing of a former teacher in Hofors in eastern Sweden in April ended on Monday, with the prosecutor calling for a long prison sentence for the main defendant. READ »

Swedish activist gets life sentence in Bahrain

National: 22 Jun 11
A Swedish citizen and democracy activist was sentenced to life imprisonment in Bahrain on Wednesday after being convicted of "terrorist activity", according to Bahrain-based human rights group. READ »

‘It really wasn’t that brutal’: murder suspect

National: 21 Jun 11
A young man suspected of beating a 54-year-old Swedish school teacher to death in April tried to downplay the severity of the fatal assault in testimony on the second day of the against the three young adults who stand charged with the killing. READ »

Film of slain teacher's beating: 'good, he's dead'

National: 20 Jun 11
One of the three suspects accused of beating a 54-year-old Swedish school teacher to death in April filmed the assault with a mobile phone camera, giving prosecutors key evidence as the trio's murder trial opened on Monday. READ »

Swedish activist jailed for 20 years in Bahrain

National: 19 May 11
A Swedish activist has been convicted to 20 years in prison in Bahrain for kidnapping a police officer, according to a local human rights group. READ »

Slain Swede's husband wanted 'a way out'

National: 4 May 11
A British man charged with ordering the murder of his Swedish bride during the couple's South Africa honeymoon "needed a way out", according to testimony presented at his extradition hearing in London on Tuesday. READ »

Arrest in probe of Swedish 'sex-chamber'

National: 29 Mar 11
A 47-year-old man was taken into custody by Swedish police on Monday after a witness linked him to a recently discovered sexual torture chamber beneath an abandoned farmhouse in western Sweden. READ »

Police probe secret Swedish 'sex-chamber'

National: 28 Mar 11
An underground sex-chamber, complete with elaborate restraining devices and an assortment of sex toys, continues to baffle Swedish police weeks after it was discovered beneath an abandoned farmhouse in western Sweden. READ »

Chickens 'tortured' during slaughter: report

Society: 8 Mar 11
The Swedish National Food Administration has discovered that a number of chickens were not bled during the slaughtering process and thus may have been scalded and plucked alive. READ »

Social Democrats call time on 'self-torture'

Politics: 15 Feb 11
Social Democrat party secretary Ibrahim Baylan said on receipt of the party's crisis commission report on Tuesday that it was time to put an end to the turmoil and look to the future. READ »

Swedish tourist: police in Egypt tortured me

National: 31 Jan 11
A 22-year-old man from southern Sweden claims he was arrested and tortured by Egyptian police before escaping from jail when it caught fire. Two Swedish journalists were also detained in Cairo on Sunday. READ »

Police chief fed up over 'jailed' asylum seekers

National: 25 Jan 11
The increasing number of rejected asylum seekers being housed in a local jail has prompted the chief of police in Gothenburg to consider reporting himself to Sweden’s Parliamentary Ombudsman. READ »

Palme prize awarded to Palestinian psychiatrist

Society: 4 Jan 11
A Palestinian psychiatrist has been awarded the 2010 Olof Palme Prize for his efforts to foster “common sense, reconciliation, and peace" in the Middle East the award’s Swedish jurors announced on Tuesday. READ »

Sweden deported man to the wrong country

National: 17 Dec 10
A 52-year-old man has been deported to the wrong country after Sweden rejected his application for asylum. READ »

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. READ »

‘Terrorism is a battle of minds, not of bombs’

Analysis & Opinion: 15 Dec 10
As Sweden struggles to come to grips with the suicide bomb attack that shook central Stockholm on Saturday, Sweden-based Bangladeshi journalist Tasneem Khalil argues that the defence of freedom involves raising questions rather than throwing bombs in retaliation. READ »

Slain Swede's husband implicated in plot

National: 7 Dec 10
The British husband of a Swedish honeymooner murdered in South Africa was involved in the plot to kill her, a prosecutor told a Cape Town court on Tuesday. READ »

Swedish arms surface in new WikiLeaks logs

National: 24 Oct 10
WikiLeaks' release of nearly 400,000 classified US files on the the Iraq war at a press conference in London on Friday has revealed the use of hundreds of Swedish weapons in the conflict. READ »

Swede charged with Balkan war crimes

National: 5 Oct 10
A 43-year-old Swedish citizen was charged on Tuesday with war crimes and kidnapping in connection with his job as a prison guard in Bosnia in 1992. READ »

'Swedes paid hostage ransom from secret fund'

National: 4 Oct 10
Sweden paid several million kronor to buy the release of a Swedish UN worker and a Norwegian colleague who had been kidnapped in Lebanon, according to a new book. READ »

Isaak’s alleged crime 'too serious' for trial

National: 1 Aug 10
The Eritrean president’s closest aide has said Swedish citizen Dawit Isaak, imprisoned in the African country for the last nine years, had not yet faced trial because of the “serious nature” of his alleged crime. READ »

Tunisia sentences refugee for terrorism

National: 11 Jul 10
A Tunisian court sentenced a Swedish refugee and seven other Tunisians to up to 12 years in jail on charges of belonging to a militant group and inciting terrorism, a lawyer reported on Saturday. READ »

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. READ »

Dumped refugee demands compensation

National: 7 Jun 10
A man deported in 1995 from Sweden to Ghana, despite the fact that he came from Uganda, is demanding compensation from the Swedish state after being imprisoned and tortured in the west African country. READ »

Social media brings power to the people

Analysis & Opinion: 10 May 10
By forging links with bloggers and social media in the Middle East, Sweden is helping to promote democracy in the region, writes Javeria Rizvi Kabani of the Swedish Institute. READ »

UN blasts Sweden over Egypt expulsion

National: 8 May 10
Sweden breached the rights of an Egyptian man when it deported him to his home country where he was later tortured, the United Nations Committee on Torture ruled on Friday. READ »

Swedish media groups call for Eritrea aid ban

Politics: 3 May 10
Swedish media and rights groups on Monday called on the EU tyo halt aid to Eritrea until Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak and other prisoners are released from a "death camp" near the capital Asmara. READ »

Three men jailed after rabbit torture trial

National: 23 Apr 10
A Swedish court jailed three men on Friday for torturing two rabbits in Stockholm last year. The court served the three men with prison terms ranging from two to four months, while a fourth man was fined. READ »

Courtroom chaos as rabbit torture trial opens

National: 16 Apr 10
Police were forced to eject several people from Södertörn district court on Thursday as four men faced trial on animal cruelty charges after setting light to several rabbits. READ »

Man arrested over Kosovo war crimes

National: 7 Apr 10
A man has been arrested in western Sweden on suspicion of aggravated war crimes, with an alternative charge of murder, in connection with the Kosovo war in 1999. READ »

Euro court warns Sweden over Iran deportation

National: 10 Mar 10
The European Court of Human Rights has told Sweden that it will breach its humanitarian obligations if it deports an Iranian asylum seeker, saying his claims of past torture appeared to be true. READ »

Asylum seeker held 18 months on remand

National: 8 Feb 10
Mehdi Kadirou, a rejected asylum seeker, has been kept locked up for 18 months in an Uppsala cell while the police and migration authorities decide where to return him. READ »

Sweden to get tougher on violent crime

Politics: 28 Jan 10
Sweden's government is calling for the introduction of a new level of crime classification that will lead to longer jail terms for especially brutal forms of assault. READ »

'Auschwitz wasn't on another planet'

Analysis & Opinion: 27 Jan 10
On the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Stockholm-based Israeli journalist David Stavrou reflects on the importance of memory and self-examination, in Sweden and beyond, if we are to avoid recurrences of a catastrophe that was entirely man-made. READ »

Foster kids demand apology for 'dark chapter'

National: 14 Jan 10
Sweden plans to launch an inquiry to examine how victims of abuse in state-run foster homes and orphanages can receive some form of restitution following the partial findings of a government investigation into past mistreatment. READ »

Prison for mum who cut kids with glass and nails

National: 12 Jan 10
A 30-year-old woman from western Stockholm charged with subjecting her three children to ‘torture-like abuse’ has been sentenced to 16 months in prison. READ »

North Korean jeans label opens pop-up shop in Stockholm

National: 20 Dec 09
After PUB department store in Stockholm yanked NoKo Jeans from its shelves at the beginning of December, the North Korean jeans label opened its own pop-up shop on Saturday. READ »

Charges filed for torture- like parenting methods

National: 26 Oct 09
A Stockholm-area couple have been indicted for using exceedingly harsh methods to raise their children, including hitting them with shoehorns and stabbing them with knives and forks. READ »

Gangster cites sleepy judge in forced tattoo case appeal

Society: 16 Oct 09
A lay judge slept his way through a court case which resulted in the convictions of two gangsters for forcing an 18-year-old boy to cover an offending tattoo, one of the men has claimed in his appeal to the Supreme Court. READ »

Anger as deportees held in solitary confinement

National: 13 Oct 09
Sweden continues to isolate asylum seekers awaiting deportation in remand centres, despite continued criticism from torture committees at the United Nations and the Council of Europe. READ »

Fans revel in auction of Ingmar Bergman's personal effects

Lifestyle: 28 Sep 09
Movie buffs, art collectors and Ingmar Bergman fans will be able to put their hands on the legendary Swedish film-maker's personal items as they go under the hammer Monday in Stockholm, writes the AFP's Igor Gedilaghine. READ »

'Saddam's body guard' to be deported from Sweden

National: 21 Sep 09
An Iraqi man who claimed to have worked as a bodyguard for Saddam Hussein is to be deported from Sweden despite concerns that he may be killed upon returning to Iraq. READ »

Amnesty: 'Sweden party to torture' in Afghanistan

National: 27 Aug 09
Human rights group Amnesty International has argued that Sweden is taking part in torture after the country handed over its first prisoner in Afghanistan to local authorities. READ »

Police station cat killer under arrest

Society: 19 Aug 09
A 20-year-old man has been arrested after nailing a dead cat to the door of a police station in western Sweden. READ »

Sweden refuses asylum to gay Iraqis

National: 18 Aug 09
A Swedish gay rights organisation has called on the government not to deport any homosexual Iraqi asylum seekers in the light of a shocking new report categorising an extermination campaign against gay men in the Middle Eastern country. READ »

EU anti-torture body blasts Swedish jails

National: 4 Aug 09
The Council of Europe's anti-torture body has criticized Sweden for the long periods of isolation endured by inmates in the country's jails and remand prisons. READ »

Abusive dad 'beat us for 20 years': mother

National: 14 Jul 09
Charges against a father of four from Uppsala in eastern Sweden suspected of abusing his family and holding his children captive for years won’t likely be filed until next week, prosecutors said on Tuesday. READ »

Mother arrested for 'torture-like' abuse

National: 22 Jun 09
A woman in her thirties has been remanded into custody on suspicions of abusing her three small children under torture-like conditions. 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 »

Fury over ailing man's botched deportation

National: 4 Jun 09
Swedish migration authorities have come in for scathing criticism following a decision to deport a man so ill with Parkinson’s disease that his home country of Nigeria refused to grant him entry. READ »

Amnesty slams Sweden over refugee policies

National: 28 May 09
Shortcomings in Sweden’s refugee policies and the country’s dismal record at bringing reported rapes to trial have come in for criticism by Amnesty International in its 2008 annual report. READ »

Girl receives damages for genital mutilation

National: 26 May 09
A 19-year-old girl in Gothenburg has been awarded compensation after having been subjected to genital mutilation in Somalia as an 11-year-old. READ »

Teen girls convicted for 'torture-like' assault

National: 14 May 09
A court in Malmö convicted two 15-year-old girls from southern Sweden for the “torture-like” beating of another 13-year-old girl in a dispute over insulting text and internet chat messages. READ »

Foster parents 'hung boys from hooks'

National: 6 May 09
The plight of three young brothers who were allegedly placed in sacks and hung from hooks in the attic of a foster home in central Sweden has led to charges against the couple in whose care the boys were placed following the death of their mother. READ »

Factory workers boo Volvo Group CEO

National: 29 Apr 09
Volvo Group CEO Leif Johansson was booed and heckled by disgruntled employees during a visit to a Volvo truck plant in Tuve near Gothenburg. 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 »

Frosty reception for vulnerable refugees

Society: 12 Feb 09
The unwillingness of Swedish municipalties to take in refugees who are traumatised or disabled has been described by the head of the Migration Board as "a major problem". READ »

'Anti-Semitism on the rise in Sweden'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden. READ »

Man sentenced for 'torturing' wife and lover

National: 4 Feb 09
A 30-year-old Malmö resident who held his wife and lover in an apartment where he abused and raped them for years was sentenced on Tuesday to 12 years in prison. READ »

Amnesty: 'Sweden lax on war criminals'

National: 3 Feb 09
Sweden has been strongly criticized by Amnesty International in a new report released on Tuesday. Amnesty has called on Sweden to end impunity from war crimes and review current legislation. READ »

What are your favourite words in Swedish?

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Jan 09
All the gossip is about love, long vowels and cockroaches as our regular panelists reveal their favourite Swedish words. 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 »

Bodström reported over CIA terror deportations

National: 19 Jan 09
Former justice minister Thomas Bodström and former prime minister Göran Persson have been reported to the Riksdag's constitutional committee after new details emerged over the expulsion of two terror suspects from Sweden to Egypt in 2001. READ »

Sweden pressured in 2001 terror case: report

National: 19 Jan 09
Fresh details have surfaced about the deportation of two terror suspects from Sweden to Egypt in December 2001, including allegations of US pressure and the role of former foreign minister Anna Lindh, following the release a new book on Monday. READ »

Court rejects Albanian extradition request

National: 22 Dec 08
The Swedish Supreme Court has backed a decision by prosecutors not to extradite a woman suspected of carrying out several murders in Albania due to concerns that her human rights would not be respected. READ »

New demands for immigrant families

National: 27 Nov 08
Before bringing their families to Sweden, newly arrived immigrants must first demonstrate they have housing and disposable income, according to a new proposal. READ »

Long sentences for gruesome cabin torture

National: 25 Nov 08
A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced the two primary suspects in a brutal torture case to several years in prison. READ »

US election watch: The case for McCain

Analysis & Opinion: 30 Oct 08
As Americans everywhere prepare to go to the polls, Swedish politician Mathias Sundin - who spent a month this summer working as a volunteer for John McCain - explains why he’s rooting for the Republican candidate. READ »

US election watch: The case for Obama

Analysis & Opinion: 29 Oct 08
With the US election just around the corner, we ask people living in Sweden to outline their reasons for supporting either of the candidates. First up, Peter Dahlen of Democrats Abroad explains why he believes Barack Obama is the right man for the job. READ »

What's on in Sweden: October 24 - October 30

Lifestyle: 23 Oct 08
What’s on: Cyndi Lauper and modern dance film festival in Stockholm; Lloyd Cole in Gothenburg; Smurfs and chocolate festival in Malmö. READ »

East ghost, west ghost: spooky walks in Sweden

Travel: 13 Oct 08
As the days shorten, candles are lit, cinnamon buns are munched and we all run the risk of overdosing on autumnal cosiness, Matt O’Leary recommends a trip to the spookier side of life with a chain-rattling, cobweb-blowing ghost walk. READ »

Egyptian compensated for forced deportation

National: 19 Sep 08
Ahmed Agiza, one of two Egyptians forcibly deported from Bromma Airport by CIA agents in 2001, is to receive three million kronor ($440,000) in damages from the Swedish state, his lawyer said on Friday. READ »

Activists fight to prevent Iranian feminist's deportation

National: 17 Sep 08
Demonstrators are set to gather in Stockholm on Wednesday to protest the impending deportation of an Iranian woman’s rights activist and anti-Islam blogger after she was denied a Swedish residence permit. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide: August 15 - 21

Lifestyle: 15 Aug 08
Stockholm art gallery and exhibition tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Suspects claim kidnap victim wanted violent sex games

National: 15 Aug 08
A couple charged in Malmö with raping and torturing a woman over a period of several days claim their 'victim' was a willing participant in the sex games. READ »

Stockholm art gallery guide: August 8 - 14

Lifestyle: 8 Aug 08
Stockholm art gallery and exhibition tips from Kalendarium. READ »

Palestinians from Iraq granted shelter in Sweden and Iceland

Society: 5 Aug 08
Palestinian refugees stranded for two years on the Iraq-Syria border will be resettled in Iceland and Sweden in the coming weeks, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday. READ »

UN torture body blasts Swedish prisons

National: 25 Jul 08
The UN Committee against Torture has directed strong criticism against Sweden for the conditions in its remand prisons. READ »


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