Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

Sweden’s public broadcaster reported that ... The second defendant in the Quran-burning case posted a message Thursday on X that said: “I’m next.” The court had been scheduled to hand ...

His stunt was a response to a public burning of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, by a Christian Iraqi immigrant to Sweden earlier this month. “I never thought I would burn any books. I’m a ...

STOCKHOLM, August 3. /TASS/. A police-authorized demonstration involving burning of the Quran took place on a beach at Lake Malaren outside the Swedish capital of Stockholm, not far from the ...

In October 2023, a Swedish court convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred with a 2020 Quran burning, the first time the country’s court system had tried the charge for desecrating Islam’s ...

Najem has appealed the verdict. The two men were accused of desecrating the Quran, including by burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims — on two of the occasions outside a Stockholm ...

Most Swedes also disagree with the Quran burnings. More than half of the respondents to a recent poll by Sweden's public broadcaster SVT said they favor a ban on burning holy books such as the Quran.

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STOCKHOLM, May 2. /TASS/. Swedish police have given permission to hold a Quran-burning rally before the Eurovision Song Contest in the southern Swedish city of Malmo, the Goteborgs-Posten ...

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told ...

A Swedish court sentenced an anti-Islam activist to a suspended sentence and a fine on Monday after finding him guilty of hate crimes, Deutsche Welle reported. Salwan Najem, a Swedish citizen, was ...

Iraq’s National Security Adviser and the Swedish Chargé d’Affaires discussed on Monday the reopening of the Swedish embassy ...