Swedish security company Securitas has been selling surveillance equipment to Turkish prisons for several years, according to an investigation by the French-German channel Arte, Sveriges Radio Ekot reports.
BusinessThe Left Party is reporting the ministers for foreign affairs and justice to the Committee on the Constitution (the parliamentary oversight committee) over their handling of the trial of journalist Joakim Medin.
SwedenThe trial in Turkey against Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been postponed for the fourth time. The court in Istanbul announced this, Dagens ETC writes. The proceedings have been widely condemned by press freedom organizations - and the EU Parliament has demanded that the prosecution be dropped. "It's not fun. I want an end to it," Joakim Medin told SVT.
SwedenThere is no connection between the assault on a UD employee and the release of journalist Joakim Medin in Turkey, the prosecutor states. These pieces of information are completely caught in the air, but despite this, this narrative is continued, says Mats Ljungqvist to Dagens Nyheter.
SwedenJoakim Medin's lawyer in Turkey, press freedom lawyer Veysel Ok, is of course happy that he has been released. But the fight is far from over, he says and refers to the trial on terror crimes that begins in September.
SwedenIn 51 days, journalist Joakim Medin was imprisoned in Turkey. Now he is free and back home in Sweden. Long live freedom, press freedom, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly, says a tired but collected Medin.
SwedenThe journalist Joakim Medin had "absolutely not" been released without the efforts from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, says Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party). She emphasizes that Sweden has not made any concessions. There has been no exchange of favors whatsoever.
SwedenThe journalist Joakim Medin was imprisoned in Turkey for 51 days. Late on Friday evening, he was back on Swedish soil. This has happened.
SwedenJoakim Medin is "damn tired" but "indescribably happy". He says in his first interview after landing in Sweden after 51 days in prison. The tiny cell and isolation have been tough", he says to Dagens ETC.
SwedenThe journalist Joakim Medin has landed on Swedish soil after 51 days in Turkish prison, writes Dagens ETC. Very tired, he says himself to the Foreign Minister after he landed.
SwedenTurkey has suddenly released journalist Joakim Medin. Both the stick and the carrot may have been used to achieve the release, assesses Turkey expert Paul Levin.
SwedenPrime Minister Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party) says that the release of the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been preceded by "intensive contacts" with the Turkish government.
SwedenThe journalist Joakim Medin has landed on Swedish soil after 51 days in Turkish prison, writes Dagens ETC. Very tired, he says himself to the Foreign Minister after he landed.
SwedenSweden's Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard spoke again with her Turkish counterpart Hakan Fidan on Wednesday, she tells TT, among others, in conjunction with the NATO meeting in Turkish Belek.
SwedenThe Security Service has two separate ongoing criminal investigations against staff at the Government Offices. One person is suspected of espionage and another of unauthorized handling of confidential information. The prosecutor simultaneously denies reports that there are links to the process involving journalist Joakim Medin, who is imprisoned in Turkey.
SwedenA highly placed Foreign Ministry employee is suspected of gross unauthorized handling of confidential information, according to information obtained by Dagens Nyheter. "It concerns a serious criminal suspicion," writes Justice Minister Gunnar Strömmer (The Moderate Party) to TT.
SwedenNew allegations about imprisoned journalist Joakim Medin have been made in talks between Sweden's and Turkey's foreign ministers. We have a good dialogue, says Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party). But about the results, there is silence.
SwedenThe EU Parliament condemns with an overwhelming majority Turkey's detention of Joakim Medin and demands that he be released immediately.
SwedenThe Government is pushing Turkey to bring home the imprisoned Swedish journalist Joakim Medin – but it's tough, says Ulf Kristersson (The Moderate Party) on his way into SVT's party leader debate.
SwedenTurkey's legal process against Swedish journalist Joakim Medin is to be discussed in the EU Parliament. It may result in an EU demand on Turkey to immediately release him from prison.
SwedenThe Swedish journalist Joakim Medin has been sentenced to conditional imprisonment for eleven months and seven days for insulting Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. It's a rather peculiar situation, says Turkey expert Paul Levin.
SwedenThe Editor-in-Chief of Dagens ETC is cautiously relieved over the news that Joakim Medin receives a conditional sentence in Turkey. It is a success in terms of Joakim being able to come home as soon as possible, says Andreas Gustavsson.
SwedenJoakim Medin's wife Sofie Axelsson comments on the first verdict against her husband, the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin who has now been sentenced to a conditional sentence for insulting Turkey's President Erdogan.
SwedenThe journalist Joakim Medin is sentenced to a conditional sentence for insulting Turkey's President Erdogan, reports TT's correspondent in Ankara. He is still charged with participating in a terrorist organization and spreading terrorist propaganda, and will remain in prison.
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