Swedish author Henning Mankell is one of eleven Swedes held in Israel Mondayon landing in the port of Ashdod after their Gaza-bound aid flotilla was attacked by Israeli commandos, Sweden's foreign ministry said.
The whereabouts of all Swedes involved in the flotilla have been established including Edda Manga and her husband Mattias Gardell, who were on the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara where at least ten people are reported to have died.
Four of the eleven Swedes are reportedly on their way home to Sweden on Tuesday after having agreed to sign deportation orders, among them Mankell andGreen Party MP Mehmet Kaplan. Six have been imprisoned after declining to sign, while one remained undecided, the foreign ministry has confirmed.
