https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swedish prosecutors have said they will not pursue a case against top Eritrean officials over the 20-year imprisonment of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak. https://www.thelocal.se/20210112/sweden-wont-open-criminal-case-against-eritrea-over-journalist-jailing Tue, 12 Jan 2021 16:23:42 +0100 sweden-wont-open-criminal-case-against-eritrea-over-journalist-jailing Sweden's chapter of Reporters Without Borders has filed a complaint accusing Eritrea's regime of human rights abuses over the imprisonment of Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak in 2001. https://www.thelocal.se/20201022/swedish-rights-group-reports-eritrea-to-police-for-torture-and-kidnapping Thu, 22 Oct 2020 10:41:18 +0200 swedish-rights-group-reports-eritrea-to-police-for-torture-and-kidnapping A United Nations expert on Friday called on Eritrea's government to urgently reveal the fate of Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, and the rest of a group of senior government officials and journalists arrested fifteen years ago. https://www.thelocal.se/20160917/un-demands-eritrea-reveal-fate-of-jailed-swedish-journalist Sat, 17 Sep 2016 12:41:22 +0200 un-demands-eritrea-reveal-fate-of-jailed-swedish-journalist A 17-year-old boy from Eritrea was just about to get a decision on his asylum application when he hopped on the wrong train and wound up in Denmark. https://www.thelocal.se/20160831/asylum-seeker-boy-stuck-in-denmark-after-taking-wrong-train Wed, 31 Aug 2016 10:35:58 +0200 asylum-seeker-boy-stuck-in-denmark-after-taking-wrong-train The Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak is alive, according to Eritrea’s foreign minister, though the claim has been met with skepticism in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20160621/foreign-minister-swedish-journalist-dawit-isaak-alive Tue, 21 Jun 2016 12:46:32 +0200 foreign-minister-swedish-journalist-dawit-isaak-alive Sweden and Germany cannot continue to take in the majority of refugees seeking new lives in the EU, a top UN official has said, days after Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that immigration could become a bigger challenge than the Greek debt crisis. https://www.thelocal.se/20150818/un-swedens-refugee-policy-unsustainable Tue, 18 Aug 2015 13:10:00 +0200 un-swedens-refugee-policy-unsustainable UPDATED: Sweden has ordered a diplomat from Eritrea’s embassy to leave the country within the next 48 hours. https://www.thelocal.se/20140905/sweden-ejects-eritrea-diplomat Fri, 05 Sep 2014 13:03:00 +0200 sweden-ejects-eritrea-diplomat Three lawyers have accused Eritrea's president Isaias Afwerki of torture and human rights crimes against Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak. https://www.thelocal.se/20140701/swedish-court-accuse-eritrean-president-torture Tue, 01 Jul 2014 13:26:00 +0200 swedish-court-accuse-eritrean-president-torture Swedish-Eritreans whose families are held for ransom in "torture camps" in the Sinai learned on Tuesday that Europol has looked at tackling criminal networks who demand in excess of $30,000 to keep their victims alive. https://www.thelocal.se/20140304/europol-to-help-torture-camp-swedish-eritreans-sinai-interpol-sweden-eritrea-extortion-ransom Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:22:00 +0100 europol-to-help-torture-camp-swedish-eritreans-sinai-interpol-sweden-eritrea-extortion-ransom Campaigners have issued a fresh plea to release the Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak who has been imprisoned in Eritrea since September 2001. https://www.thelocal.se/20140119/new-plea-for-dawit-isaak-release-after-4500-days Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:40:00 +0100 new-plea-for-dawit-isaak-release-after-4500-days A Swedish-Eritrean woman who was the victim of an attempted extortion of $33,000 in ransom for a kidnapped and tortured man in Egypt has appealed against sentences passed down on two men on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20130630/48776 Sun, 30 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200 48776 Two men were convicted by a Stockholm court on Friday of the aggravated attempted extortion of a Swedish-Eritrean woman in return for preventing the torture and eventual murder of a man in Egypt. https://www.thelocal.se/20130628/48754 Fri, 28 Jun 2013 13:36:00 +0200 48754 Two men charged with blackmailing an Eritrean woman in Sweden faced a Stockholm courtroom on Wednesday, accused of demanding money from the woman to prevent the torture and eventual murder of a man in Egypt. https://www.thelocal.se/20130612/48456 Wed, 12 Jun 2013 17:30:00 +0200 48456 Police in Sweden have stopped deporting people to Eritrea as the Migration Board (Migrationsverket) reevaluates its policy regarding asylum applicants from the east African country. https://www.thelocal.se/20130509/47800 Thu, 09 May 2013 11:23:00 +0200 47800 Four Eritrean men have been freed from a torture camp in Egypt after money raised in Sweden was used to buy their way out. https://www.thelocal.se/20130428/47596 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:03:00 +0200 47596 Pressure is mounting on Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt to take action against the torture of Eritreans in Egypt and the blackmailing of their relatives in Sweden and other European countries. https://www.thelocal.se/20130407/47186 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 16:07:00 +0200 47186 Eritreans in Sweden are being forced to cough up tens of thousands of dollars to blackmailers who threaten to torture and kill their family members abroad. https://www.thelocal.se/20130403/47112 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:28:00 +0200 47112 Arson investigations have been launched into three fires that broke out near Stockholm in the early hours of Monday morning in three separate locations, all of which house organizations that sympathize with the regime in Eritrea. https://www.thelocal.se/20130226/46402 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 08:06:00 +0100 46402 Two men and one woman have been arrested in Stockholm on suspicion of blackmail and conspiring to commit murder in a case believed to be connected to the Eritrean regime's systematic oppression of Eritreans living in exile. https://www.thelocal.se/20130223/46358 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 11:10:00 +0100 46358 Carl Bildt’s silent diplomacy between Sweden and Eritrea is non-existent and nothing is being done to bring home imprisoned Swedish journalist Dawit Isaak, claimed Eritrea’s president Isaias Afwerki in an interview on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.se/20120520/40932 Sun, 20 May 2012 12:03:00 +0200 40932