Joakim Medin, a correspondent for the newspaper Dagens ETC, was detained when his plane landed in Turkey, the latest journalist jailed trying to cover protests over the arrest of Istanbul mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, the top opponent of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
“The accusations are absurd,“ Dagens ETC editor in chief Andreas Gustavsson told AFP in a written message.
Medin was detained Thursday and sent to prison the next day.
The Turkish authorities notably accuse him of taking part in a January rally in Stockholm by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has led a decades-long insurgency against the Turkish state.
Turkish authorities have also deported BBC journalist Mark Lowen, who had been covering the protests, after holding him for 17 hours on Wednesday, saying he posed “a threat to public order”, the broadcaster said.
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