Expert: Politically difficult to assist the ICE-swedes

president of the united states Donald Trump wants european countries to take back the ICE-supporters who were arrested in Syria and Iraq. But legally, it is not possible to set requirements of the type, according to Mark., associate professor of international law and a senior lecturer at the university of Stockholm.

– There is no obligation on the Swedish state to use all consular resources in this situation, it is rather that the state has the opportunity to it if the government so wishes, " says. to the TT.

of ICE-the swedes held captive by non-state actors, such as the kurdish YPG militia, means that the case becomes practically complicated.

– the legal Framework for consular help was originally created for the relations between states and not for situations which involve a non-state actor, says..

– When you have with the other states that do know their own diplomatic representatives will be secure and protected. Agreements on extradition and legal cooperation is also created for the states that interact with each other. But when it is a non-state actor involved, the situation is different.

Interior minister Mikael Damberg (S) says to TT that the foreign MINISTRY advised against travelling to these areas since 2011, which is why the Swedish ICE-passengers can not expect to receive any consular help.

obstacles to Sweden to help the swedes, who have been detained abroad, although the foreign office advised against travel there.

Journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, for example, the help after they had captured and detained in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia 2011. Land. point out that it certainly was a state actor was behind the detention. But also political motives play is likely what comes to ICE-travelers, " he says.

" It wouldn't be particularly popular among the voters if the Swedish government did everything it could to suspected terrorists to be coming back to Sweden, of course, there is some politics in this. You have no legal obligation to do something, you don't want, nor act, so to speak.