Sweden's government said on Thursday that it was denying a request from Turkey for a Swedish court to interrogate a journalist facing terror charges in Turkey. Joakim Medin, a 41-year-old reporter working for the Dagens ETC daily, was arrested in March last year when he arrived in Istanbul to cover the biggest street demonstrations Turkey had seen in over a decade. He temporarily remained behind bars following the trial and is still facing charges of "belonging to a terror organisation". Medin has denied the charge that he participated in a protest by the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in Stockholm in January 2023. But Turkey has not dropped the case and, according to Opsahl, had requested that a Swedish court conduct an interrogation with Medin.