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 Whistleblower website WikiLeaks has slammed a Swedish tabloid as 'corrupt and politicized' the day after it published a scoop on Swedish Guantanamo detainee Mehdi Ghezali. https://www.thelocal.se/20110427/33440 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:08:00 +0200 33440 Swedish citizen Mehdi Ghezali was kept at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for two years to provide the US government with information of the ‘recruitment’ of foreign Muslims in Saudi Arabia, according to documents made public by whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. https://www.thelocal.se/20110426/33412 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:45:00 +0200 33412 Julian Assange's attorneys warn he could be put to death or be sent to the feared Guantanamo Bay prison camp if he were extradited to the United States, but experts dismiss the claim as "impossible." https://www.thelocal.se/20110209/31924 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 08:57:00 +0100 31924 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20091123/23416 Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:30:00 +0100 23416 Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Monday that four Swedish citizens - three adults and a child - are being held in Islamabad, where Pakistani authorities are investigating whether the group has ties to terrorist network Al-Qaeda. https://www.thelocal.se/20090914/22076 Mon, 14 Sep 2009 18:51:00 +0200 22076 Sweden's foreign ministry confirmed on Saturday that three Swedes have been arrested in Pakistan. https://www.thelocal.se/20090913/22048 Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:05:00 +0200 22048 One of the three Swedish nationals arrested nearly two weeks ago in Pakistan is Mehdi Ghezali, a former terror suspect who was released from the United States’ Guantánamo Bay prison in 2004. https://www.thelocal.se/20090911/22014 Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:09:00 +0200 22014 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 a report in the Expressen newspaper on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090424/19050 Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:04:00 +0200 19050 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. https://www.thelocal.se/20090124/17128 Sat, 24 Jan 2009 11:20:00 +0100 17128 A comedy sketch entitled 'Jesus: The Guantanamo Years' by Irish comedian Abie Philbin Bowman has proved a hit among Swedes on YouTube and iTunes. https://www.thelocal.se/20080503/11524 Sat, 03 May 2008 12:49:00 +0200 11524 A Swedish former Guantánamo Bay prisoner has given up on attempts to sue the United States government for damages. https://www.thelocal.se/20070814/8187 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 19:57:00 +0200 8187 A man who previously lived in Sweden as an asylum seeker, and is now imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, has been officially classed by US authorities as an 'enemy combatant'. https://www.thelocal.se/20070814/8181 Tue, 14 Aug 2007 14:28:00 +0200 8181 When Mehdi Ghezali was released from the Guantanamo base on Cuba, the Swedish government declared that the United States had been given no guarantees in connection with his release. But according to the TV4 programme Kalla Fakta [Cold Facts], Sweden agreed to keep Ghezali under observation. https://www.thelocal.se/20050927/2161-3 Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:24:00 +0200 2161-3 Mehdi Ghezali has announced through his lawyer that he intends to sue US Secretary of State for Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, for damages. The Swede spent over two years in the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba under suspicion of membership of the al-Qaida terror network. No concrete evidence was ever produced and he was released in July last year. https://www.thelocal.se/20050317/1128-2 Thu, 17 Mar 2005 17:48:00 +0100 1128-2