Swedish Paper Refuses To Publish Internal Sexual Harassment Report

Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet has decided to cancel the publication of a report labelled “Document 2.0” that would have seen employees of the paper speak of their experiences with sexual harassment within the company.

Publisher of the paper Sofia Olsson Olsén cancelled the publication of the document which was meant to have been revealed to the public on Thursday at a press conference, Swedish journalist association newspaper Journalisten reports.

The cancellation of the publication comes after several high profile cases of sexual harassment within the Swedish media, including allegations of harassment by a male employee of the paper.

Earlier in the week, a group of female employees of the paper who worked on the report claimed that it would be made available and that those in the report were made anonymous.

On Wednesday another press conference was convened in which Sofia Olsson Olsén said the document was not open to the public but was an “internal” report.

Deputy publisher Lena Mellin later claimed that there had been no intention to publish the report at all. “Sofia Olsson Olsén has not stopped Document 2.0. The people who have produced the document are free to spread the content as they wish, but the idea from the beginning was that the document was not to be published in Aftonbladet,” she said.

The report came out of the #MeToo campaign which has revealed a plethora of sexual harassment claims in multiple countries. In Sweden, several organisations, including the Swedish public broadcaster SVT, have seen allegations against male staff members.

While the staff members in Sweden have not been named, many in the UK have been, and some, like anti-Brexit, pro-social justice writer Rupert Myers, formerly of GQ,  have been fired from their positions.

In the United States, the #MeToo movement has led to the downfall of not only Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein and actor Kevin Spacey, but also senior media figures like news reporter Charlie Rose, who was recently fired from American broadcaster CBS.

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