{"id":1500,"date":"2010-05-12T16:27:10","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:27:10","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T20:26:50","slug":"sweden-expels-syrian-diplomat-in-kidnapping-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/sweden-expels-syrian-diplomat-in-kidnapping-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweden Expels Syrian Diplomat in &#8216;Kidnapping&#8217; Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><strong>BBC News<br \/>\nStockholm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sweden has expelled a high-ranking Syrian diplomat for allegedly planning to abduct his daughter, Swedish media report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s charge d&#8217;affaires wanted to take his daughter out of Sweden because of her relationship with a young man there, Swedish television SVT says.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish foreign office has refused to comment, TT news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>A Swedish politician, who is alleged to have helped the diplomat plan to kidnap the girl, was arrested on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Stockholm-based Social Democrat politician had served as an adviser to the diplomat&#8217;s family, SVT reports.<\/p>\n<p>The politician denies any wrongdoing, Dagens Nyheter newspaper writes.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Swedish foreign office, Teo Zetterman, told Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet that they could not comment on cases involving people with diplomatic immunity.<\/p>\n<p>Syria was informed Tuesday by Swedish officials that the diplomat was &quot;no longer welcome in Sweden&quot;, according to Swedish daily Expressen.se<\/p>\n<p>Swedish Social Democrat leader Mona Sahlin would not comment on the story, Swedish news website Expressen.se notes. <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC News Stockholm Sweden has expelled a high-ranking Syrian diplomat for allegedly planning to abduct his daughter, Swedish media report. Syria&#8217;s charge d&#8217;affaires wanted to take his daughter out of Sweden because of her relationship with a young man there, Swedish television SVT says. The Swedish foreign office has refused to comment, TT news agency &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-syria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2010\/05\/sweden_stockholm.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ado-world.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}