Two journalists from a leading Swedish newspaper were detained yesterday by pro-Russian separatists while they were attempting to report on the MH17 atrocity in eastern Ukraine.
Paul Hansen and Jan Lewenhagen, of Dagens Nyheter, were at the morgue in Donetsk when the separatists detained them and then confined them to a building with another seven journalists.
The Swedish pair were able to send a text message to their editorial office and were released after three hours. They were not given a reason for their detention.
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt had previously described the shooting down of the plane as "a first class international gangster crime". He also argued, in an article in the Financial Times, that "Putin's credibility lies amid the wreckage of flight MH17".
Sources: The Local/Financial Times
