Joakim Medin: "Long Live Peace!"

For 51 days, journalist Joakim Medin has been held alone in a cramped cell in Turkey's high-security prison Silivri. On Saturday he met the Swedish media as a free man. "It's absurd, I have increasingly difficulty understanding that it's about me here," he said.

The Prime Minister: "Welcome home Joakim!" Prominent reception when AFA-Medin landed in Sweden after 51 days in Turkish custody.

After seven weeks in a Turkish prison, journalist Joakim Medin has returned home to Sweden. Now he talks about his time in the high-security prison outside Istanbul. – From day one, I have been thinking about what to say at this moment. It is “Long live freedom. Freedom of the press, freedom of expression and freedom of movement,” says Joakim Medin.

Joakim Medin is back home in Sweden. – Long live freedom, freedom of the press, freedom of expression and freedom of movement, he says at a press conference.

A few minutes after midnight, Joakim Medin landed in Sweden. Outside the plane, he was reunited in a kiss with his heavily pregnant wife Sofie. – It's good. It's for

Swedish journalist Joakim Medin, who was released the day before after spending 51 days in pretrial detention in Turkey accused of alleged links with terrorism, was happy to be back in his country on Saturday and appreciated that he can now again enjoy freedom of the press, expression and movement.The entry The Swedish journalist who spent 51 days in prison in Turkey celebrates freedom was first published in the Digital Process.