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“Iran is unknown and misunderstood”

This content was published on Feb 15, 2009 Tim Guldimann, the former Swiss Ambassador to Iran, talks to swissinfo about the possible impact for Iran of the arrival of United States President Barack Obama in Washington and of forthcoming elections in Tehran in June. In a break from the policy of former President George W. Bush, Obama has said he is willing to…

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Doubts raised over Brazilian attack claims

This content was published on Feb 13, 2009 The 26-year-old lawyer had told police three youths sporting neo Nazi symbols had attacked her in a Zurich railway station and carved the initials of the rightwing Swiss People’s Party into her skin, resulting in a miscarriage. Zurich University forensic medicine chief Walter Bär said on Friday that tests showed the woman had not been…

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Geneva plans large new prison

This content was published on Feb 13, 2009 The new facility would hold a maximum of 500 detainees and could open in 2015 near Champ-Dollon, Switzerland’s most overcrowded prison, which was built for 270 detainees in 1977 and currently holds over 500. “Overcrowding at Champ-Dollon poses problems in terms of detention conditions and work for the prison guards, not forgetting internal security problems,”…

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Singer gives up stage to take up embassy

This content was published on Feb 12, 2009 The 84 year old singer, born in France of Armenian parents, obtained Armenian nationality in December 2008. He told Armenian television he had felt greatly honoured when he was offered the post, but had hesitated before accepting it. “In the end I thought that what is important for Armenia must be important for all of…

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Israeli coalition could “promote peace”

This content was published on Feb 12, 2009 Pascal de Crousaz talks swissinfo through some of the coalition scenarios and their potential impact on the peace process. In particular, a centre-right coalition between the Kadima, Labour and Likud parties would give them an overall majority and be the best way of continuing peace negotiations, he says. Leaders of Kadima and Likud, the two…

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Ex-dictator’s assets set to help Haitians

This content was published on Feb 12, 2009 The Federal Justice Office announced on Thursday that the exiled Duvalier and his entourage could not prove how they had obtained the funds, totalling about SFr7 million ($6 million). “The Duvalier clan acted in the same way as a criminal organisation,” the Justice Office said. “The statements submitted by the account holders failed to provide…

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Migrations interview: Part two

This content was published on Feb 11, 2009 swissinfo: Can you explain in more detail how and where they got their money from to travel abroad and start new lives, since they were very poor? Giorgio Cheda: Yes, this is a very significant issue. And it explains the difference between emigration to Australia, which occurred over a period of only two years, and…

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Storm claims one life, injures several

This content was published on Feb 11, 2009 Storm “Quinten” produced the strongest winds in the Bernese Oberland, where gusts of 174km/h raked the Kleine Scheidegg on the Jungfrau mountain. In Zug, in central Switzerland, a forestry worker was killed by a falling tree. Several others were injured. Elsewhere in central Switzerland, two six-year-old girls were injured by a falling tree. One suffered…

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Guards nab smugglers carrying €700,000 in cash

This content was published on Feb 10, 2009 Customs agents in Chiasso said they questioned two men who appeared to be nervous as they drove their car toward a checkpoint between Italy and Switzerland during one night last week. The agents ordered the men out of the car and quickly discovered plastic bags stuffed with €500 bills stashed behind the dashboard. Where the…

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Sri Lanka faces “humanitarian catastrophe”

This content was published on Feb 10, 2009 Reinhard Fichtl from Swiss children’s charity Terre des Hommes told swissinfo that the most important thing for aid agencies was to get unlimited access to those in need, but he also stressed the importance of a political, as opposed to military, solution. Earlier on Tuesday the Sri Lankan military accused the Liberation Tigers of Tamil…

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