STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Nobel Peace laureate Shirin Ebadi on Monday accused Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson of aiding monitoring in Iran, and encouraged members of the Iranian diaspora in Sweden to protest to the company.
"I am urging you Iranians in Sweden to please email Ericsson and object and say, 'Why are you selling the Iranian government software with which it can control its people'," the law [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Israel on Sunday expelled a Swedish MP of Turkish origin who had been on a Gaza-bound aid ship intercepted in May by Israeli commandos, the interior ministry said.
Mehmet Kaplan was ordered to leave minutes after his plane landed in Israel because he had "failed to follow procedure" and obtain an entry visa in Sweden, ministry spokeswoman Sabine Hadad told AFP.
Dror Fei [...]
ADEN, Yemen (AFP) - Yemeni tribesmen kidnapped the Swedish technical director of a cement works in the troubled southern province of Abyan late on Thursday, a security official told AFP.
Four men abducted the Swede at gunpoint as he was leaving the plant in the provincial capital Zinjibar to travel to the main southern city of Aden, the official said on Friday.
The kidnappers are believed to b [...]
JERUSALEM (AFP) - Suspicious envelopes containing a white powder and notes were sent to the US, Spanish and Swedish embassies in Tel Aviv on Tuesday, police said, adding that there were no reports of anyone hurt.
"Three separate envelopes were sent to three different embassies -- the American, Spanish and Swedish -- and in each they were opened by embassy staff who found a suspicious po [...]
AL-ARISH, Egypt (AFP) - Egyptian police shot and killed a Sudanese man as he tried to cross the border illegally into Israel on Friday, a security official told AFP.
"Police ordered him by loudspeaker to stop, but when he did not obey they shot him," the official said.
The 26-year-old died of a single shot to the head, he said, adding that the incident took place on the Sinai desert border.
T [...]
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - A Swedish-Iranian employee of Swedish cosmetics firm Oriflame was charged in Iran for establishing a pyramid scheme and deriving illegal earnings from it, Sweden's foreign ministry said Sunday.
"He has been formally charged with establishing a pyramid scheme and deriving illegal earnings from it," ministry spokeswoman Camilla Aakesson Lindblom told AFP.
She said the employee [...]
TEHRAN (AFP) - Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi accused Swedish cosmetics firm Oriflame on Saturday of trying to harm Iran's security after five of its employees were arrested amid allegations of espionage.
"Oriflame intended to fight the (Iranian) system. There are no economic reasons behind the company," Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi was quoted by state television as telling report [...]
STOCKHOLM (AFP) - Iranian authorities have arrested five employees of Swedish direct-sales cosmetics firm Oriflame and shut its Tehran office amid reported Iranian allegations of a massive pyramid scheme.
"The authorities have now closed Oriflame's operation in Tehran (and) have also detained three members of staff and two sales consultants without disclosed reasons," the company said in [...]
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