The two journalists have stated that they explained to the police that they were in place to cover a planned climate action journalistically, but were not heard and were released north of town.
According to the journalists, the police have inquired about their sources.
No one is suspected of a crime
Police confirm that the journalists were removed from the scene.
Eleven people have been removed from a demonstration on a roadway to various places in the municipality.
Two of these eleven stated that they were journalists, but could not prove this through, for example, press identification.
No one is suspected of any crime, it is a crime prevention measure, says Ola Österling, press spokesperson for the police in Stockholm.
Have the police searched equipment or requested sources?
- I can not give more answers, but we have not tried to reveal source protection, we have not done.
People entering police vehicles are screened for protection, but it is not the same as looking in journalists' bags.
"Never been involved in Western democracy"
Jonas Gratzer was on site on behalf of the image agency Getty images and is one of the journalists who was abducted.
He says police said they assumed he was on site with the activists, even though he said he was a journalist and offered police to speak to his editor.
- Then they started asking how we knew something was going to happen there and then I said that there is source protection on the information, that he is not allowed to ask about it, it is protected according to the constitution, he says to Kulturnyheterna.
The police statement, that he did not have a press ID, he does not give much for.
- I have been involved in things like this before, in China and India and North Korea, but never in a Western democracy.
Journalist is not a protected title and you do not have to have a press game.
They made an assumption on loose grounds, says Jonas Gratzer.
"Social problems"
Both the Swedish Journalists' Union and Reporters Without Borders have condemned the police's actions.
“If the police's knowledge of journalistic work is this low, we have a major societal problem.
It is the police's task to ensure that journalists can carry out their mission, not hinder them ", says Ulrika Hyllert, chairman of the Swedish Journalists' Association in a statement.