Before this year’s elections in Sweden, Accoun contacted the 14 largest political parties in the country, asking them questions about human rights and democracy. A report with the questions and answers has been published by us and is available at https://accoun.org/publications/

What we have found out is very disturbing in many ways:

First, only some very small parties answered our questions. None of the parties in the parlament answered a single question. And democracy does not work if those parties, which in practice can affect Swedish politics, do not answer what they stand for. This is a scandal, as we see it.

Second, we have contacted several newspapers and similar about our results, but so far it is very quiet about this scandal and the issues we bring up in the report.

Third, the risk is that issues we bring up will not be solved in a satisfactory way, when the parties and much of the media neglect or hide them.

Accoun does not provide any recommendation, which party to vote for, but we believe these topics are important for Swedish voters to be aware of.

Our concerns are not taken out of thin air. We have offered to provide background information about the issues we bring up, because we have documentation about many of the cases, but no party has asked us to send that.

Another Swedish NGO, Civil Rights Defenders, has also published a review from a rights perspective. They did receive replies from the parties in the parlament. Civil Rights Defenders’ question number 4 stands out from the rest and brings up an important topic that Accoun did not ask about. From the answers, we find out that none of the parties in the parlament support the idea of holding a referendum regarding the proposal that the government should be able to enact laws restricting rights and freedoms during peacetime crises. We here provide a translation of a part of the comment by Civil Rights Defenders:

There is strong support for a constitutional amendment that would allow the government to assume power during a peacetime crisis, yet it is striking that no parliamentary party is interested in hearing the public’s views on an issue that entails far-reaching risks regarding our rights and the concentration of power. Weakening the protection of rights in this manner clearly runs counter to the parties’ stated ambition of strengthening such protections.

Christmas is approaching. We hope that the Swedish-Eritrean journalist Dawit Isaak will be able to spend this Christmas with his family. He was arrested over 24 years ago, in Eritrea. He has never received a fair trial. It is not known what he is accused of. His family does not know how he is doing. We urge the Swedish government to do the utmost for Dawit Isaak to be set free.

Our Newsletter March 2025 is mainly about the important issue that military must come under democratic control. In this blog post we list some of our sources regarding how certain military activities in Sweden are now outside the democratic control of the Swedish people and how parts of the Swedish military are suspected of having been involved in breaking down Swedish democracy:

Mathias Mossberg’s book I mörka vatten (second edition, 2016) explains how the Swedish people were in the 1980s misled in the submarine issue. Ola Tunander has described this as psyop that affected Swedish politics.

Regarding the murder of Olof Palme, we recommend Gunnar Wall’s books Konspiration Olof Palme and Rättsskandalen Olof Palme. The text X – A White Paper (in Swedish) by J.B. Lindqvist and a related witness statement can be downloaded for free online.

Uppdrag granskning has earlier reported about the Swedish Defense Radio Establishment (FRA). Further light on the hacking of Belgacom has been shed by the journalist Ryan J Gallagher. The “European bazaar” has been described by Edward Snowden.

Secret cooperation exists between special forces in Sweden and the USA. Meanwhile, several sources, such as National Defense University Press, have reported that American special forces are suspected of having participated in war crimes.

Sweden in 2016 confirmed that it was joining Nato Strategic Communications Centre of Excellence, which has been described as a “propaganda center”. Some Swedish citizens have been very critical against how the decisions were made to join Nato and DCA. One can read more about DCA elsewhere on accoun.org.

Regarding possible involvement of parts of Swedish military in terrorism, see articles on Ola Tunander’s substack, for example Cutting off the Nord Stream.

During August 2024, Accoun sent a complaint to The Parliamentary Ombudsmen in Sweden, known in Sweden as as “JO” (Justitieombudsmännen). Our complaint was rejected, which one can read about in Swedish on a blog post on lindelof.nu. The full text of our complaint (including a summary that was sent separately) can be downloaded here, in Swedish.

After that, we have found even more arguments for our complaint in Glenn Diesen’s article The Nord Stream Anniversary & Europe’s Stockholm Syndrome.

Read about our view in Swedish on Global Politics

During 2023, Accoun has made two police reports. The first one is about the poor handling of the Nord Stream case. The latest one, about recently signed Defence Cooperation Agreement between Sweden and the US, can be downloaded here (in Swedish, OpenDocument Text format). Feel free to use it if you also want to make a police report about this.

Update, February 2024: In the beginning of 2024, we have as a supplement to our latest police report requested that Sweden’s NATO application and DCA be immediately annulled, pending a full investigation into whether any of this violates Swedish law. We have also stated more reasons, why we think Swedish law has been violated.

Update, June 2024: Appeal sent regarding DCA, first to the police and then to the public prosecutor. See https://www.globalpolitics.se/polisanmalan-om-dca-avtalet-av-manniskorattsorganisationen-accoun/

A recent article by Manlio Dinucci reminds us about the misery brougt to Libya by NATO:

Today more than 600,000 migrants of around 45 nationalities are trapped in Libya, practically reduced to a state of slavery, forced to work without pay and beaten. More and more are those who ask not to be brought to Europe, but to return to their countries to escape this condition. Particularly dramatic is that of young women, sold at auction, raped and forced into prostitution.

All this thanks to the operation “Unified Protector” that, informs the Italian Ministry of Defense, was carried out by NATO in 2011 for “the protection of civilians in Libya”.

Even the NATO “hang around” Sweden participated militarily in the attack on Libya – a war that Stephen Lendman calls a Nuremberg level crime. Before, Libya had the highest Human Development Index in Africa. How come so many people are still buying the narrative that NATO is for protection, when reality has shown so clearly what NATO has brought to Libya?

Watch “The Stream” on Al Jazeera and read the opinion piece by James Miller and Peter S. Fosl

Recently, some Danes have been charged under section 109 of the Danish Criminal Code, which carries a maximum sentence of 12 years in prison, for leaking state secrets. One of them is the head of the Danish Defence Intelligence Service, Lars Findsen. Another is the former Defence Minister, Claus Hjort Frederiksen. Danish Radio reports (link to content in Danish) that:

Last month, the Defense Intelligence Service (FE) and the Police Intelligence Service (PET) held talks with Danish media houses, reminding the chiefs that stories based on leaked information could also be a breach of the clause.

And that message is described by the editor-in-chief of Weekendavisen, Martin Krasnik, as intimidating.

Charlotta Friborg at Swedish Television (link to content in Swedish/Danish) says:

I think that what I hear about what is happening in Denmark right now is very worrying. Denmark has a constitutional ban on censorship, just like Sweden. This means that you as a publisher can be held responsible for your publications afterwards. That’s a whole other thing. That authorities call in media representatives to warn or teach, I think is unprecedented

Read about Russian convicts and officials being charged for the abuses and about the former prisoner Sergey Savelyev, who exposed what is described as one of Russia’s most notorious torture chambers.