Swedish police combed through a 65-year-old woman's social media, logging insults like "lowlife" and her views on Israel, before charging her with hate speech over a reply about Muslims. A split court has now acquitted her.
Daniel Lönn
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One of northern Europe's largest mosques is rising in Stockholm's Skärholmen amid questions over funding and Islamist links. Residents, including Christian immigrants, tell Samnytt they are worried.
Jonas Andersson
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Former Sweden Democrats MP Hanna Wigh has been remanded in custody on suspicion of aggravated assault after a man was found outside a rural home with injuries to his face. She was first arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Daniel Lönn
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Undercover reporters posing as a married man asked 15 Swedish mosques to wed him to a second wife. Nine times, an imam, sheikh or adviser offered to perform the ceremony or pointed him to someone who would - one for 1,000 kronor.
Mats Dagerlind
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A Moroccan asylum seeker who had been in Sweden less than a month broke into family homes and touched a sleeping 10-year-old girl. He got 22 months and deportation - with a ban on return of just ten years.
Daniel Lönn
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Sweden's Parliamentary Ombudsman slams the national health inspectorate after doctors it judged grossly incompetent were allowed to keep treating patients for up to five years and nine months.
Samnytt News Desk
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How the Sweden Democrats (SD) and Sweden's center-right coalition reshaped migration, criminal justice, and nuclear energy rules - and why municipal coalitions are pushing back.
EXPLAINER #2 · JUSTICE SYSTEMInside Sweden’s juvenile sentencing rules, closed state youth homes (SiS), and the legal clash when families intervene to rescue children from contract-killing networks.
EXPLAINER #3 · INSTITUTIONSWhy a 5.4-million-member Lutheran church with SEK 24B in annual revenue holds partisan elections and funds theological inquiries into polyamory and activist causes.
Russell Brand has been sentenced to ten and a half years in prison. Nine years rest on a 2009 rape conviction in which, according to the public r…
Poland's government locked the Constitutional Tribunal's president out with riot police and walked its own judges in through the back door. Bruss…
The red-greens won 176 seats and celebrated with cake. Six weeks on, 248 MPs have voted against Magdalena Andersson, even the Left Party said no,…
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