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Sweden: Riot in Gothenburg police was attacked

June 23, 2017 By administrator

Sweden, riot in GothenburgGöteborg During the night to Friday, it became worrying at Länsmansgården when several cars were set on fire. The police patrol who went to the scene was subjected to stone bursting and shot warning shots. “As a police, you feel the most frustrated that some people behave like this,” says Göran Carlbom, commanding officer at the West police.

Marina Ferhatovic:

It was at two o’clock to Friday that the police had several alarms about car fires around Temperaturgatan in Länsmansgården. When the police arrived at the scene they were exposed to stone bursting. Then, at last, you chose to shoot a warning shot.

“It’s not often you have to do it as a police, but now you felt so cramped. The youth threw stones and went to the police, says Göran Carlbom.

In total, it was about 15-20 young people. They will be skated after the warning shot. When more patrols arrived, the police resorted to restoring order in the area.

– Most of the resources in Greater Gothenburg were added. It quickly became quiet, “says Göran Carlbom.

Several cars were burning

The rescue service was working to extinguish the fires.

– I know it has burned in several places. However, we could quickly quit, says Miranda Larsson, alarm and management operator at the Rescue Service.

According to witnesses, the youngsters should have rubbish trash from a recycling station and set fire on them. With the trash they should have tried to block the way of rescue vehicles.

In the morning, the police announced that three fireplaces had been located. On Temperaturgatan it burned in a recycling station. At the church of Länsmansgård, it burned in a car, a scaffold and a tree that had started to burn when the car rolled into the tree. In the P-house at Klimatgatan, several cars will have burned.

The police classifies the event as a riot. No people should have been injured. None of the youngsters have been detained.

Can be linked to intervention

Erik Nord, policeman in Greater Gothenburg, tells GP that unrest may collapse with an intervention earlier this week.

– The bishop’s farm is a particularly vulnerable area where such events may occur. We work intensively in the area together with the municipality of Gothenburg and experience, despite the fact that development is on the right track.

According to him, it has become less worrying in the area in recent years.

“But there is clearly no guarantee that this kind of incidents will not occur,” he says.

For investigative reasons, he does not want to leave any more details about the intervention that may link to the riots.

source: https://www.gp.se/nyheter/göteborg/upplopp-i-göteborg-polisen-attackerades-1.4383469

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: gothenburg, riot, Sweden

Sweden drops Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rape case

May 19, 2017 By administrator

Sweden drops Assange rape case

Sweden drops Assange rape case

Sweden’s director of public prosecutions has decided to drop the rape investigation into Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the BBC reports.

Marianne Ny filed a request to the Stockholm District Court to revoke his arrest warrant, apparently ending a seven-year stand-off.

Mr Assange, 45, has lived in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since 2012, trying to avoid extradition.

He feared being extradited to the US if sent to Sweden.

He could face trial in the US over the leaking hundreds of thousands of secret US military and diplomatic documents.

A brief statement ahead of a press conference by the prosecutor later on Friday said: “Director of Public Prosecution, Ms Marianne Ny, has today decided to discontinue the investigation regarding suspected rape (lesser degree) by Julian Assange.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: assange, case, drops, rape, Sweden

Swedish Court passes sentence on Turkish nationalist Barbaros Leylani because of his statements to kill Armenians

December 16, 2016 By administrator

The Stockholm District Court made a formal judgement on the case of the former Deputy Chairman of the Turkish National Association of Sweden Barbaros Leylani, who made xenophobic, anti-Armenian statements containing clear expressions of incitement to violence, hatred and racial discrimination, website of the regional socio-political newspaper Sydsvenskan» reports.

Besides, the court sentenced Leylani to fine in an amount equal to his 40-day income.

However, it is noted that according to Arshak Gavafyan, Chairman of the Armenian National Committee of Sweden, the decision of the court was too soft.

An anti-Armenian demonstration was organized by the Coordination Center of Azerbaijani Associations in Sweden in the square Sergels, Stockholm, on Saturday, April 9. Over 100 people took part in the demonstration. Representatives of local Azerbaijani and Turkish organizations were among the protesters. The Armenian embassy in Sweden reported in a statement that during the demonstration, the vice chairman of the Coordination Center of Turkish Associations in Sweden, Barbaros Leylani, made a speech

in Turkish coming up with anti-Armenian and nationalistic statements.
“It is time for uniting the Turkish nation. The Turks will wake up putting an end to the Armenian dogs. Death to the Armenian dogs! Death! Death!” – Barbaros Leylani stated.

It was noted that the protesters also shouted “Death to the Armenian dogs, death, death, death!” Leylani’s speeches were widely spread in Sweden, as a result, the reaction of the central media followed. V4, a local TV channel, presented the video during its evening news program.

Swedish MP Fredrik Malm and the chairman of the Coordination Center of Armenian Associations, Karlen Mansuryan, condemned such aggressive statements commenting the demonstration and Leylani’s statements on air.

The website Dagens Nyheter reported that according to Simon Sahakyan, the secretary of the Armenian Academic Association in Sweden, Leylani’s statements reflect the Turkish authorities’ position led by the president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He reminded the audience of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Turkey and highlighted that this historical fact has already been recognized by many states despite Turkey’s resistance.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Barbaros Leylani, Court, sentence, Sweden

Sweden: Barbaros Leylani faces trial for making insulting remarks about Armenians

December 1, 2016 By administrator

barbaros-trialThe Turkish politician, who made insulting remarks about Armenians during last year’s anti-Armenian demonstration organized by Azerbaijani and Turkish population at Sergels Square in the center of the Swedish capital, had to stand in front of the court. Ermenihaber reports referring to ANF agency.

Already former Vice Chairman of Turkish National Association Barbaros Leylani, who called for the death of “Armenian dogs” during the protest, has recently testified in the court.
Leylani has commented on his statements claiming that “being in a bad psychological state, he delivered his speech on the spot without preparing it previously”. Turning to the word “dog” he has noted that he used the remark to accuse those Armenians who support terrorism, and it did not refer to the peaceful citizens.

At the end of his testimony he said “I apologize” in response to the judge’s question whether the defendant has anything to add.

Noting that the statements made by Leylani incite hatred towards an ethnic group, the Prosecutor has asked to impose a suspended sentence and a fine. The verdict will be issued on 14 December.

One of the Swedish TV channels broadcast the video of the anti-Armenian speech, which was followed by heavy criticism. Afterwards Leylani said that he made the remarks driven out of impulses and they should not be considered threats.

However his justifications were not accepted and he had to resign from the position of the Vice Chairman. In addition to this, over 50 Armenian, Kurdish and Swedish organizations operating in Stockholm submitted applications to the Prosecutor’s Office demanding to punish Leylani.

 

Source Panorama.am

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Armenian, Barbaros Leylani, Sweden, Trial

Sweden to interview Wikileaks founder

August 11, 2016 By administrator

free-wikileaksEcuador has agreed to allow Sweden to interview WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange inside its embassy. The Australian has been sheltering in Ecuador’s London embassy to avoid arrest on a Swedish criminal warrant.

Ecuador’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that “in the coming weeks” a Swedish judge will be admitted inside its diplomatic compound to take a statement from the 45-year-old Australian national.

Assange is wanted for questioning over a 2010 rape allegation in Sweden but has been inside Ecuador’s UK mission for more than four years in a bid to avoid extradition.

Assange denies the charge, saying the sexual contact was consensual and the charges politically motivated to retaliate over his role in Wikileaks, which publishes leaked data that is often embarrassing for governments and officials.

A long-running saga

Assange won an important victory before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in Februrary which had found that Sweden and Britain violated his fundamental rights.

Ecuador has maintained it would allow Sweden to take custody of Assange if Stockholm guarantees that he would not be sent to the United States for prosecution over WikiLeaks’ release of 500,000 US diplomatic cables in 2010.

Since then the anti-secrecy group has continued to leak files gleaned by hackers including emails from within the Democratic National Committee that suggested collusion between top party officials and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. The party’s chair and other top officials resigned following the revelations.

Wikileaks has also been criticized for dumping unfiltered data including a recent email dump from Turkey’s ruling political party that had little apparent public interest value but included the personal contact information of women voters in nearly every Turkish province.

jar/kl (AFP, EFE)

Source: http://www.dw.com/en/sweden-to-interview-wikileaks-founder/a-19464749

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: assange, ecuador, Interview, london, Sweden, WikiLeaks

‘Death to Armenian dogs:’ Turkish leader in Sweden steps down after call for killings (Video)

April 13, 2016 By administrator

Turkish dead to ArmenianThe deputy head of Sweden’s main Turkish association stepped down in disgrace after calling for death to Armenians. Speaking to a small crowd in Stockholm, Barbaros Leylani urged Turks to awaken, and to kill what he branded “the Armenian dogs.”

Speaking at Sergels Square in the center of the Swedish capital, Leylani also said: “Let us show Sweden, Scandinavia and Europe what Turkey stands for. We do not like blood, but we can let the blood flow when it is needed,” the Swedish publication Dagens Nyheter reported.

The organization has distanced itself from Lelyani’s comments, saying that its main goal is to work towards equal rights. Leylani issued an apology on Monday on the association’s website saying that he had been misunderstood.

Armenia claims that in 1915, around 1.5 million of its citizens were massacred by Ottoman Turks. Yerevan has been calling for the international community to recognize this act as genocide. However, the Turkish state firmly rejects these claims.

The Swedish legal watchdog Juridikfronten said it was aware of the incident and had reported the speech to police for incitement to racial hatred.

#Sweden #Turkish Workers' Associations chanting Death to #Armenian why is this CRIMINAL no have been Arrested??????? pic.twitter.com/YQvMs0yiAC

— Wally Sarkeesian (@gagrulenet) April 12, 2016

Leylani’s comments have been condemned by numerous groups in Sweden. The head of the Armenian association in Sweden, Garlen Mansourian, told Radio Sweden that there needs to be “zero tolerance” for such remarks, while he also plans to report Leylani to the police.

Meanwhile, Bahar Cetin, the head of Sweden’s Turkish Youth Association said she was shocked at the comments made after seeing a recording on the internet. She condemned Leylani’s statement as “racist” and said it could negatively affect the 50,000 Turks living in Sweden.

“It leads to us Turks being painted as racists and fascists in the media and in society,” she told Radio Sweden. Cetin added that the Turkish community has unanimously condemned Leylani’s statements.

Tensions between Armenia and its neighbor Azerbaijan, which is strongly supported by Turkey, escalated rapidly over the last couple of weeks over the breakaway Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is mostly inhabited by ethnic Armenians.

During the brief escalation, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan phoned his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev to express condolences over the death of Azeri soldiers on the Nagorno-Karabakh border, while adding: “Turkish people will always be with the people of Azerbaijan.”

https://youtu.be/gAMsHEEm3Xg

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: leader, step down, Sweden, Turkish

Sweden Armenian community surprises Azerbaijani demonstrators

February 22, 2016 By administrator

Armenian SwedenThe local Azerbaijanis staged a demonstration outside the Embassy of Armenia in Sweden.

Their objective was to be photographed outside this Armenian diplomatic representation on a non-working day, and to disseminate misinformation in their own press regarding a “crowded” protest.

The youth of the Armenian community of Sweden, however, had learned about the organization of this demonstration in advance, and they surprised these Azerbaijanis by waiting for them outside the embassy, and holding the national flags of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (NKR/Artsakh).

As a result, the Azerbaijani demonstration dispersed in a very short time.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: Armenia, Azerbaijan, demonstrator, Sweden

The Foreign Minister of Sweden Margot Wallström visited the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan

February 9, 2016 By administrator

arton121932-453x480Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström who is in Armenia with a delegation, visited Tuesday, February 9 at the memorial of the Armenian genocide of Dzidernagapert (Yerevan) to lay a wreath and pray in front of the eternal flame in memory of 1.5 million Armenian victims of the genocide of the twentieth century Prime executed by the Ottoman Empire.

Margot Wallström, the representative of the diplomacy of Sweden was accompanied by Martin Enberg the Swedish Ambassador in Armenia and Souren Manoukian deputy director of the Genocide Museum. At the invitation of Edward Nalbandian, the head of the Armenian diplomacy, Margot Wallström is from 8 to 9 February on an official visit in Armenia. It will be received today by Armenian President Serzh Sargsyan.

Krikor Amirzayan

Filed Under: Genocide, News Tagged With: Armenian, Genocide, Margot Wallström, Sweden

Sweden blocks suspect Turkish freighter in port “laden with rockets and explosives .”

January 26, 2016 By administrator

n_94386_1STOCKHOLM – Agence France-Presse

Sweden is holding a Turkish cargo ship in a southwestern dock, port authorities said Jan. 26, amid reports that it was carrying explosives and was bound for the Middle East.

The Panamanian-flagged Whiskey Trio, belonging to a Turkish company called Trio Shipping, has remained at the Varberg port in Halland county since Friday.

Thomas Astrom, a senior official at the Swedish Transport Agency told AFP, “we are prohibiting them from leaving port, mainly for safety reasons, but also because of the working conditions for the crew.”

The alert was raised by a seafarers’ union after a Whiskey Trio crew member told it that he was not given permission to see a doctor despite being ill.

The Transportarbetareforbundet union on its website decried “a rusty ship with poverty wages,” which it said was “laden with rockets and explosives .”

The transport authority, questioned by AFP, did not reveal the nature of the ship’s cargo which was scheduled to leave for the Netherlands.

The authorities did though speak of multiple breaches of safety rules, notably in the areas of fire safety and safety and rescue equipment.

The poor living conditions were also cited, including dirty and  dilapidated cabins, outdated food and insufficient water points.

The Aftonbladet daily, without citing sources, said the ship was carrying explosives ultimately bound “for the Middle East.”

January/26/2016

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: blocks suspect, freighter, Sweden, Turkish

Sweden’s feminist foreign minister has dared to tell the truth about Saudi Arabia. What happens now concerns us all

December 12, 2015 By administrator

Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

Margot Wallström’s principled stand deserves wide support. Betrayal seems more likely AFP PHOTO / FABRICE COFFRINI (Photo credit should read FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)

Nick Cohen

(new.spectator.co.uk) If the cries of ‘Je suis Charlie’ were sincere, the western world would be convulsed with worry and anger about the Wallström affair. It has all the ingredients for a clash-of-civilisations confrontation.

A few weeks ago Margot Wallström, the Swedish foreign minister, denounced the subjugation of women in Saudi Arabia. As the theocratic kingdom prevents women from travelling, conducting official business or marrying without the permission of male guardians, and as girls can be forced into child marriages where they are effectively raped by old men, she was telling no more than the truth. Wallström went on to condemn the Saudi courts for ordering that Raif Badawi receive ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes for setting up a website that championed secularism and free speech. These were ‘mediaeval methods’, she said, and a ‘cruel attempt to silence modern forms of expression’. And once again, who can argue with that?

The backlash followed the pattern set by Rushdie, the Danish cartoons and Hebdo. Saudi Arabia withdrew its ambassador and stopped issuing visas to Swedish businessmen. The United Arab Emirates joined it. The Organisation of Islamic Co-operation, which represents 56 Muslim-majority states, accused Sweden of failing to respect the world’s ‘rich and varied ethical standards’ — standards so rich and varied, apparently, they include the flogging of bloggers and encouragement of paedophiles. Meanwhile, the Gulf Co-operation Council condemned her ‘unaccept-able interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’, and I wouldn’t bet against anti-Swedish riots following soon.

Yet there is no ‘Wallström affair’. Outside Sweden, the western media has barely covered the story, and Sweden’s EU allies have shown no inclination whatsoever to support her. A small Scandinavian nation faces sanctions, accusations of Islamophobia and maybe worse to come, and everyone stays silent. As so often, the scandal is that there isn’t a scandal.

It is a sign of how upside-down modern politics has become that one assumes that a politician who defends freedom of speech and women’s rights in the Arab world must be some kind of muscular liberal, or neocon, or perhaps a supporter of one of Scandinavia’s new populist right-wing parties whose commitment to human rights is merely a cover for anti-Muslim hatred. But Margot Wallström is that modern rarity: a left-wing politician who goes where her principles take her.

She is foreign minister in Sweden’s weak coalition of Social Democrats and Greens, and took office promising a feminist foreign policy. She recognised Palestine in October last year — and, no, the Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Co-operation and Gulf Co-operation Council did not condemn her ‘unacceptable interference in the internal affairs of Israel’. I confess that her gesture struck me as counterproductive at the time. But after Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out a Palestinian state as he used every dirty trick he could think of to secure his re-election, she can claim with justice that history has vindicated her.

She moved on to the Saudi version of sharia law. Her criticism was not just rhetorical. She said that it was unethical for Sweden to continue with its military co-operation agreement with Saudi Arabia. In other words, she threatened Swedish arms companies’ ability to make money. Saudi Arabia’s denial of business visas to Swedes threatened to hurt other companies’ profits too. You might think of Swedes as upright social democrats, who have never let worries of appearing tedious stand in the way of their righteousness. But that has never been wholly true, and is certainly not true when there is money at stake.

Sweden is the world’s 12th largest arms exporter — quite an achievement for a country of just nine million people. Its exports to Saudi Arabia total $1.3 billion. Business leaders and civil servants are also aware that other Muslim-majority countries may follow Saudi Arabia’s lead. During the ‘cartoon crisis’ — a phrase I still can’t write without snorting with incredulity — Danish companies faced global attacks and the French supermarket chain Carrefour took Danish goods off the shelves to appease Muslim customers. A co-ordinated campaign by Muslim nations against Sweden is not a fanciful notion. There is talk that Sweden may lose its chance to gain a seat on the UN Security Council in 2017 because of Wallström.

To put it as mildly as I can, the Swedish establishment has gone wild. Thirty chief executives signed a letter saying that breaking the arms trade agreement ‘would jeopardise Sweden’s reputation as a trade and co-operation partner’. No less a figure than His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf himself hauled Wallström in at the weekend to tell her that he wanted a compromise. Saudi Arabia has successfully turned criticism of its brutal version of Islam into an attack on all Muslims, regardless of whether they are Wahhabis or not, and Wallström and her colleagues are clearly unnerved by accusations of Islamophobia. The signs are that she will fold under the pressure, particularly when the rest of liberal Europe shows no interest in supporting her.

Sins of omission are as telling as sins of commission. The Wallström non-affair tells us three things. It is easier to instruct small countries such as Sweden and Israel on what they can and cannot do than America, China or a Saudi Arabia that can call on global Muslim support when criticised. Second, a Europe that is getting older and poorer is starting to find that moral stands in foreign policy are luxuries it can no longer afford. Saudi Arabia has been confident throughout that Sweden needs its money more than it needs Swedish imports.

Finally, and most revealingly in my opinion, the non-affair shows us that the rights of women always come last. To be sure, there are Twitter storms about sexist men and media feeding frenzies whenever a public figure uses ‘inappropriate language’. But when a politician tries to campaign for the rights of women suffering under a brutally misogynistic clerical culture she isn’t cheered on but met with an embarrassed and hugely revealing silence.

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— Diana van Laar @dianalaa@mastodon.social (@DianavanLaar) December 12, 2015

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