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            <title><![CDATA[Securitas supplied surveillance equipment to notorious Turkish prison where Swedish journalist was detained]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 16:00:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Left Party Refers Swedish Ministers to Constitutional Committee Over Handling of Joakim Medin Case]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:12:46 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Turkey trial against Swedish journalist Joakim Medin postponed again]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2026 04:15:17 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prosecutor Confirms No Link Between UD Employee Case and Medin Release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[There 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 15:37:24 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joakim Medin's Legal Battle in Turkey Continues Despite Release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Joakim 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 12:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Journalist Joakim Medin Released from Turkish Prison After 51 Days]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[In 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 08:10:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foreign Minister Stenergard: No Concessions in Medin's Release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 07:07:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joakim Medin Returns to Sweden After 51 Days in Turkish Detention]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The journalist Joakim Medin was imprisoned in Turkey for 51 days. Late on Friday evening, he was back on Swedish soil. This has happened.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 05:21:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joakim Medin Reflects on Isolation After Release from Turkish Prison]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Joakim 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 04:03:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Journalist Joakim Medin Returns to Sweden After Turkish Detention]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 00:33:25 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Turkey Releases Journalist Joakim Medin Amid Diplomatic Efforts]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Turkey 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 18:29:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kristersson Confirms Contact with Turkey's Erdogan on Journalist Release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Prime 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 17:12:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Journalist Joakim Medin Returns to Sweden After Turkish Imprisonment]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 16:38:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Swedish and Turkish Foreign Ministers Discuss Joakim Medin Case]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Sweden'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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 08:06:03 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Security Service Probes Espionage and Data Breach at Government Offices]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 06:32:05 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foreign Ministry Employee Suspected of Mishandling Confidential Data]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[A 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 12:49:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sweden and Turkey Hold Talks on Journalist Joakim Medin's Detention]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[New 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.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 10:41:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[EU Parliament Urges Turkey to Release Journalist Joakim Medin]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[The EU Parliament condemns with an overwhelming majority Turkey's detention of Joakim Medin and demands that he be released immediately.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 09:51:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kristersson Engages Intensively with Turkey for Journalist's Release]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sofie Axelsson Urges Continued Efforts for Joakim Medin's Release]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Joakim 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.]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[The 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.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Kristersson Expresses Concerns Over Journalist Medin's Trial in Turkey]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) says that great efforts are being made to bring home the Swedish journalist Joakim Medin. Since it is very obvious that Sweden and Turkey have different opinions and views on what is included in journalistic work, he says.]]></description>
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