Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. The court dropped the case ...

(MENAFN) Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee known for publicly burning copies of the Quran, was shot and killed in his apartment in Södertälje, Sweden, reportedly while live-streaming on social media.

“The suspicions have been undermined and I see no reason to keep these people under arrest” over the killing on Wednesday, prosecutor Rasmus Oman said in a statement, adding that the investigation was ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...

Stockholm: A Stockholm court on Monday convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred during four Holy Quran burnings in 2023 that ...

This comes just days after an anti-Islam activist who burned a Quran was shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika, who set fire to an Islamic holy book in 2023, died in an apartment near the capital ...

A man has been arrested after a video appeared to show him burning a Quran page by page in Manchester two days after a man was shot dead in Sweden for doing the same thing. The man, 47 ...

The indictment has now been cancelled. In Summer 2023, public burnings of the holy Quran took place in Sweden and Denmark causing violent protests in Muslim countries and condemnations by the EU and ...

A Swedish court on Monday found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty of hate crime over statements made as he assisted another man ...

STOCKHOLM, Feb 1 — Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy with his Quran burnings. In June 2023, the 38-year-old with a chequered ...

In January 2024, Paludan also burned a copy of the holy Quran in the Swedish capital Stockholm. He repeated the controversial act a week later this time in front of a mosque in Denmark.