Claes Lönegård
Claes Lönegård writes for Swedish weekly Fokus.
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By Claes Lönegård
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European of the Week
The cyber-revolutionary on Tahrir Square
6 December 20111Fokus Stockholm -
Sweden
The Pirates have landed
10 June 2009Fokus Stockholm
If Mubarak failed to cut the Egyptian revolutionaries off from the rest of the world last January, it was thanks to a Swedish student and theorist of hacktivism: Christopher Kullenberg, named “Swede of the Year” by the weekly Fokus. A profile. 
One of the big surprises of the European election came from Scandinavia. On 7.1% of the vote, the Pirate party is setting sail for Brussels, with the aim to legalise file sharing on the Internet, and presenting itself as a defender of citizens rights.