European Parliament
Arvidsson, Cederschiöld, Grönfeldt Bergman, Stenmarck and Wachtmeister (PPE-DE ),
in writing. – (SV)
We Swedish Moderates agree with the demand that the Guantánamo prisoners be accorded a fair trial, and we have therefore voted in favour of the tabled report. We are not, however, of the opinion that the prisoners necessarily fulfil the conditions of the Geneva Convention that would allow them to be considered as prisoners of war. It is therefore incorrect for the report to invoke the Geneva Convention’s rules governing the treatment of prisoners of war as being synonymous with the rights of the Guantánamo prisoners.

