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 The Swedish foreign ministry has confirmed that four Swedish citizens, arrested in Pakistan in August as terrorist suspects, have been released and put on a flight to Stockholm. https://www.thelocal.se/20091010/22576 Sat, 10 Oct 2009 13:18:00 +0200 22576 The 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son, who have been imprisoned in Pakistan since August, are to be released “shortly”, according to the Swedish foreign ministry. https://www.thelocal.se/20091007/22524 Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:30:00 +0200 22524 The Swedish embassy in Islamabad has denied that 19-year-old Safia Benaouda and her two-year-old son have been released by the Pakistani authorities, as reports continue to circulate indicating their imminent return to Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20090927/22320 Sun, 27 Sep 2009 10:15:00 +0200 22320 Safia Benaouda, the 19-year-old Swedish woman arrested in Pakistan earlier in September in the company of former Guantanamo inmate Mehdi Ghezali, is reported to have been released, according to local media. https://www.thelocal.se/20090925/22292 Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:39:00 +0200 22292 A Swedish woman arrested in Pakistan three weeks ago, along with her child and two other Swedes, is not a terror suspect, a source close to the Pakistani authorities said on Thursday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090917/22148 Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:27:00 +0200 22148 Pakistan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday confirmed that four Swedish citizens are sitting in prison in the capital Islamabad, three weeks after their arrest in the north of the country. https://www.thelocal.se/20090916/22118 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:50:00 +0200 22118 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 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 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