Updated 14.03 | Published 14.01
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Full -screen douglas Thor, M. Photo: Caisa Rasmussen/ TT News Agency
The government must put pressure on Turkey to get journalist Joakim Medin free.
It requires MUF chairman Douglas Thor, who also sits on the Moderates party board.
Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard writes in a statement that she looks seriously at the incident.
A lot is unclear at the time of writing about journalist Joakim Medin’s freedom exercise.
He must have landed in Istanbul yesterday to monitor the development in Turkey.
Shortly after, he wrote a text message to his editor -in -chief Andreas Gustavsson on today’s etc: “They are picking me up for interrogation now”.
“I don’t know where he is. I don’t know how he is doing. Not if he is questioned. Not if he is to be deported,” Gustavsson writes in an email to TT.
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Full Screen Medin 2019. Photo: Thomas Johansson
Requires the government acting
Chairman of the Moderate Youth League Douglas Thor demands that the government act.
– Media’s freedom to report is absolutely fundamental. The government needs to put pressure on Turkey to free Joakim Medin.
Thor adds that this is not the first time that Turkey is captivating foreign journalists. A few days ago, a BBC journalist who was in the country was to report on the extensive demonstrations where taken into custody.
He wants the government to either contact Turkey’s ambassador, or turn directly to the country’s government.
Minister: Seriously
Sweden has an agreement with Turkey, which was written before the NATO entry, and includes collaborations in the security field.
Do you think this agreement makes it more difficult for Sweden to put pressure on Turkey?
– The agreement should not prevent us from guaranteeing journalists from Sweden their freedom.
Aftonbladet is looking for Sweden’s Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard. Her press secretary Susan Vo Bergqvist asks to return.
On Twitter, Malmer writes Stenergard:
“We always take a serious look at when journalists were detained. We know that a Swedish journalist was detained in connection with entry to Turkey. The General Consulate in Istanbul is in contact with local authorities.”