February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Chancellor_of_justice":
Society: 1 Feb 12
A 31-year-old woman who is serving a life sentence for murder in a Swedish prison has demanded that she be allowed to take a holiday.
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Society: 20 Oct 11
It was not hate speech when Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Radio featured a show in which a Somali imam called for all converts from Islam to be killed, the Swedish Chancellor of Justice has ruled.
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Politics: 22 Sep 11
Sweden's top legal official has given backing to the decision to reassign the integration ministry civil servant who compared Islam to totalitarian ideologies.
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National: 22 Jul 11
Charges have been filed against the publisher of a website affiliated with a Swedish neo-Nazi movement for allowing a reader comment containing racial slurs to remain on the site.
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Business & Money: 27 Jun 11
Scania CEO Leif Östling has reported Sweden's top anti-corruption prosecutor for violating confidentiality rules in connection with his investigation into the Swedish truckmaker's alleged skirting of UN sanctions in Iraq.
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National: 16 Mar 11
A Swedish court has ruled that depicting the prophet Muhammad naked together with his nine-year-old wife naked is legal, freeing a local politician on charges of racial agitation.
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National: 3 Mar 11
A Swedish politician facing charges for producing a poster depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad naked together with his nine-year-old wife was found not guilty by a jury in Malmö on Wednesday.
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Society: 26 Jan 11
Animated sex scenes featuring Swedish teens in a new sex education film has led to the film being reported to the police for violating laws against endangering the moral upbringing of young people.
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Politics: 26 Dec 10
Two offices that often criticise Swedish agencies for long wait times have their own problems with efficiency.
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Society: 23 Dec 10
A Stockholm woman who approached a psychic medium for help to "burn away all evil" has been awarded damages after claiming fraud when results were less than satisfactory.
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Society: 16 Nov 10
Charges have been filed against the publisher of a website affiliated with a Swedish neo-Nazi magazine for allowing a reader comment with racial slurs to remain on the site.
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Politics: 28 Aug 10
The far-right Sweden Democrats have submitted their own election film for review by one of the country's top legal officials after TV4 refused to broadcast the advert on grounds that it promoted religious hatred.
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National: 10 Aug 10
A woman is suing the Swedish state after prison warders forced her to strip while visiting her boyfriend.
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National: 7 Aug 10
Swedish legal experts have revealed that the website WikiLeaks may not be covered by Swedish whistleblower protection laws despite having its servers located just outside Stockholm.
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Society: 23 Jul 10
The Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern, JK) will not bring criminal charges against a car owner who played late rockabilly singer Eddie Meduza's song "Heil Hitler" over loudspeakers to a large group of people in a parking lot.
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Politics: 21 May 10
The Swedish government has announced the launch of an inquiry aimed at tightening legislation banning forced and child marriages, which it identified as a continuing problem.
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National: 18 May 10
Police officers at a station in southern Sweden have been criticised by the Chancellor of Justice after they forced a 16-year-old girl to strip naked.
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Society: 12 May 10
A teenager diagnosed with autism has filed a demand for damages with Sweden's highest legal official after being taken into involuntary care, a decision which was rejected as lacking legal grounds after two years.
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National: 28 Apr 10
Eva Gabrielsson, the life partner of deceased Millennium trilogy author Stieg Larsson, has called on Sweden's highest legal official to examine the legality of a press subsidy awarded to a newspaper run by a racist political party.
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National: 16 Apr 10
A rebel British bishop was fined €10,000 ($13,534) by a German court on Friday for denying the Holocaust in an interview with a Swedish television channel.
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National: 11 Feb 10
The Swedish government has announced that from September 1st parents will be made financially responsible for crimes committed by their children, in the face of stern criticism from several parties.
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National: 9 Feb 10
79-year-old Ingrid Ståhl of Malmö in southern Sweden found out to her surprise that she had been registered as dead after a mistake by the Swedish Tax Agency.
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Politics: 23 Oct 09
Liberal party leader Jan Björklund has opened up the possibility of cooperating with the Green party if the far-right Sweden Democrats garnered enough votes to hold the balance of power after the 2010 election.
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Politics: 20 Oct 09
An opinion piece by Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson in which he labels Muslims a major threat has been reported to Sweden's highest legal official by the Centre Against Racism.
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Politics: 19 Oct 09
An article by the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats claiming that Islam is the biggest threat to Sweden since World War II is tantamount to hate speech, according to legal experts.
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National: 8 Oct 09
Sweden’s highest legal official, Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz, is stepping down from his post and will be replaced by supreme court justice Anna Skarhed, the government announced on Thursday.
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National: 22 Sep 09
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has rebuffed demands by two members of the US Congress that he publicly condemn the Aftonbladet newspaper over a story alleging Israeli soldiers harvested the organs of dead Palestinians.
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National: 20 Sep 09
A Swedish tabloid newspaper has been cleared of racism charges by the country's senior legal official over a story alleging that Israeli soldiers stole and sold body parts of dead Palestinians.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 Aug 09
Sweden's fervent defence of free speech has sparked a diplomatic storm with Israel over the government's refusal to condemn an article accusing Israeli soldiers of smuggling dead Palestinians' organs, write AFP's Igor Gedilaghine.
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National: 25 Aug 09
Swedish tabloid newspaper Aftonbladet has been reported to the Chancellor of Justice after publishing an article forwarding claims about the alleged organ harvesting of dead Palestinians by Israeli defence forces.
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National: 1 Aug 09
The Swedish Chancellor of the Justice has ordered the Swedish Tax Agency to pay a Swedish family 13,750 kronor ($1,950) due to an administrative error that thwarted the family's vacation plans.
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National: 3 Jul 09
Testimony from the victim of an alleged rape is not sufficient to secure a conviction without additional supporting evidence, Sweden’s highest court ruled on Friday.
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Society: 25 May 09
An inmate at Karlskrona prison in southern Sweden has applied for damages after the prisons service was unable to provide adequate attire to cover his considerable frame.
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Science & Technology: 6 May 09
Text messages sent to or from politicians can be considered public documents, a Swedish has ruled.
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Society: 30 Apr 09
A Swedish television programme based on the British Channel 4 show Balls of Steel has been reported to the police for disorderly conduct and sexual harassment.
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National: 9 Apr 09
The Swedish Chancellor of Justice has rejected a request from German prosecutors to require an SVT journalist to testify against Catholic bishop Richard Williamson, who denied the Holocaust in a January television broadcast.
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Society: 1 Apr 09
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two children in Arboga, has, in a letter to Sweden's justice chancellor, complained of biased judges and claims that Sweden has no right to call itself a state governed by law.
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Society: 4 Mar 09
Sweden’s National Police Board has been ordered to pay a man 300 kronor ($33) in compensation after police destroyed his pipe during a drug raid.
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Politics: 29 Jan 09
The Swedish government has promised to do more to preserve and promote the country’s official minority languages.
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Society: 28 Jan 09
Hurtful gossip about teachers and staff published on a blog by two girls from a middle school in central Sweden have led to the filing of a defamation claim with Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice.
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National: 22 Jan 09
A man from northern Sweden is to receive compensation from the state after he had his box wine confiscated by police in connection with a drink driving conviction.
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National: 18 Dec 08
Swedish tax authorities inadvertently took away a Stockholm woman's Swedish citizenship and made her a citizen of Canada without telling her.
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National: 15 Nov 08
Sweden's highest legal official Göran Lambertz has argued that a Danish neo-Nazi can not be extradited from Sweden to face charges in Germany as he has committed no crime under Swedish law.
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National: 31 Oct 08
A Swedish man has received 170,498 kronor ($21,725) in compensation after being wrongfully convicted of child rape.
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Politics: 3 Oct 08
The Social Democrats want to create an ombudsman to help protect individuals’ privacy in Sweden, party leader Mona Sahlin told Sveriges Radio.
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National: 1 Oct 08
A Swedish man acquitted of rape charges after he filmed himself having sex with a 14-year-old girl is set to receive 157,000 kronor ($22,500) in compensation for being wrongly accused.
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National: 19 Sep 08
Ahmed Agiza, one of two Egyptians forcibly deported from Bromma Airport by CIA agents in 2001, is to receive three million kronor ($440,000) in damages from the Swedish state, his lawyer said on Friday.
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National: 16 Aug 08
Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern – JK) has called for changes in telecom surveillance legislation to allow for the tracking of suspects using their mobile phones.
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National: 8 Aug 08
A convicted rapist has been refused compensation for an alleged rights violation when he was denied access to pornography in his cell.
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Politics: 8 Aug 08
Sweden's highest legal official has awarded damages to a member of the nationalist Sweden Democrat party who was relieved of his work experience duties at the Swedish Embassy in Israel after his party allegiances came to light.
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National: 28 Jul 08
The National Defence Radio Establishment, FRA (Försvarets radioanstalt), has filed a complaint with Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice (Justitiekanslern – JK) against a blogger for publishing a classified document from the agency.
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National: 25 Jul 08
Sweden's National Defence Radio Establishment (FRA) has been reported to the Chancellor of Justice by one of those on a classified list of people bugged in the 1990s for doing business with Russia.
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National: 3 Jul 08
Mohammed Alzery, one of two Egyptians deported from Bromma Airport by CIA agents in 2001, is to be awarded three million kronor ($500,000) in damages by the Swedish state.
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National: 2 Jul 08
Swedish Security Service Säpo is to investigate whether an employee at the National Defence Radio Establishment may have leaked classified information to the media.
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National: 1 Jul 08
Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice has launch an investigation into the leaking of a classified document by an employee of the National Defence Radio Establishment (Försvarets Radioanstalt - FRA).
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Analysis & Opinion: 11 Jun 08
As Sweden's parliament prepares to pass a controversial new surveillance law, Faisal Enayat Khan takes a closer look at the development of a far-reaching tapping scheme.
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National: 29 Apr 08
A man from the Stockholm suburb of Haninge is set to receive 80,000 kronor ($13,350) after his apartment was trashed as a result of some overzealous police work.
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Society: 25 Apr 08
No one has the right to obstruct right-wing extremists from passing out their literature at schools, Sweden’s Chancellor of Justice has ruled.
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National: 26 Feb 08
Sweden has said it will not award damages to two women claiming to have been exploited in a major prostitution scandal in the 1970s.
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National: 12 Feb 08
The films contained pornographic content that Swedish film censors considered too violent.
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Politics: 9 Nov 07
TV4 has reported chief prosecutor Christer van der Kvast to the Chancellor of Justice following a raid on the station's offices this week.
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Politics: 4 Sep 07
As Swedish civil servants warn of a growing security threat, Integration Minister Nyamko Sabuni accentuates the positives in the ongoing Muhammad cartoon controversy.
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Society: 3 Sep 07
The state is not obliged to pay compensation for confiscated alcohol ordered over the internet, the Chancellor of Justice has ruled.
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National: 23 Aug 07
Sweden's Chancellor of Justice has ruled that it was perfectly acceptable for a tabloid columnist to insult the dialect spoken by most people in the south of the country.
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Society: 4 Jul 07
Prosecutors have begun looking into the activities of credit rating company Ratsit. The company is suspected of having released income details online before it had a licence.
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Politics: 21 Jun 07
Prosecutors have started an investigation into Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt's blog, for comments reportedly made by readers calling for genocide of Palestinians.
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National: 29 May 07
Sweden's top legal official recently announced plans to launch an investigation into collusion between Swedish police and bouncers. For Briton Russell Cutress, the problem feels all too familiar.
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National: 4 May 07
Individuals connected with the Pirate Bay will face charges following a raid on the file-sharing site last year, a prosecutor has said. A spokesman for the Pirate Bay told The Local that they are not unduly concerned.
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National: 2 May 07
Sweden's nightclub bouncers are to be investigated by a top legal official over concerns that they use excessive force and that the police place too much trust in their evidence.
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National: 3 Apr 07
Two doctors - referred to as 'the pathologist' and 'the general practitioner' in a much publicized murder trial - have sued the state for damages after they had their medical licences revoked in 1991.
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National: 2 Apr 07
Swedish police and prosecutors acted within their rights when they raided the Pirate Bay in May last year, according to an investigation by the Justice Ombudsman.
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Society: 1 Apr 07
On Monday Örebro University will go to court to defend its decision to refuse the applications of three women who were better qualified for a course than four successful male applicants.
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Politics: 1 Mar 07
The decision to deport Egyptian Mohammed Alzery, who was controversially removed from Sweden by CIA agents, has been declared invalid by the Swedish government.
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Politics: 29 Jan 07
New information has emerged that contradicts Lars Danielsson's account of the government's handling of the tsunami crisis.
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National: 28 Dec 06
Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz is at the centre of a storm over his public criticisms of the police and judiciary. But justice minister Beatrice Ask has pledged her support.
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National: 21 Dec 06
Uppsala University has been convicted of discriminating against Swedish applicants to its law course. The university had operated a quota system which gave preference to less well-qualified immigrant students.
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National: 15 Dec 06
Otto Sjöberg, the editor of tabloid Expressen, has been found guilty of libelling actor Mikael Persbrandt and fined 80,000 kronor by a court in Stockholm. He was also ordered to pay damages of 75,000 kronor.
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National: 8 Dec 06
A rioting football supporter got cold feet when forced to make his own way home dressed in prison clothes supplied by local police.
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Society: 29 Nov 06
Two Swedish women who wanted to study law at Uppsala University had their applications rejected in favour of immigrant students with lower grades. Now the Supreme Court will decide whether the university acted unlawfully.
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National: 24 Nov 06
A jury has found Otto Sjöberg, editor of tabloid Expressen, guilty of defamation for a series of articles in which the paper made claims that actor Mikael Persbrant had suffered from alcohol poisoning.
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National: 24 Nov 06
The editor of Expressen, Otto Sjöberg, is facing a court in Stockholm on defamation charges. The tabloid falsely claimed that actor Mikael Persbrandt had been admitted to a clinic suffering from alcohol poisoning.
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National: 22 Nov 06
Thomas Quick, who was convicted of eight murders to which he had confessed, should have his convictions overturned, says the lawyer for the parents of one of his 'victims'.
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National: 20 Nov 06
It should be made easier for people who have been wrongly convicted of a crime to get a retrial, Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz says. He wants an independent authority set up to consider retrial applications.
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National: 13 Nov 06
A Russian researcher is to be paid 80,000 kronor in damages after he was held in custody in Sweden for two months accused of spying. The incident caused a diplomatic spat between Sweden and Russia earlier this year.
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National: 2 Oct 06
A senior prosecutor has been criticised by Sweden's Chancellor of Justice for not disclosing information that could have been useful to the defence of a lawyer charged with receiving stolen goods.
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Society: 9 Sep 06
A four year old girl in Söderhamn has been given compensation by the Swedish state after her parents discovered that she didn't get a personal number when she was born.
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Society: 28 Jul 06
A man who is on the run from Swedish justice can live on Swedish sick benefits in Togo for the rest of his life. Now the Social Insurance Office has to pay him thousands for trying to stop his handouts.
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National: 14 Jun 06
Ten companies which had their servers confiscated during the police's raids against The Pirate Bay plan on Wednesday to deliver a demand for compensation from the Swedish state.
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National: 29 May 06
An innocent person is more likely to be found guilty in a Swedish court than two years ago, according to an inquiry commissioned by the government. This is especially true in sex crime cases.
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Society: 18 May 06
False claims that actor Mikael Persbrandt had been admitted to a clinic suffering from alcohol poisioning have landed tabloid Expressen in hot water.
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Society: 16 May 06
The law preventing incitement of hatred against homosexuals should be rewritten, since it appears to offer more protection than it really does. So says Sweden's Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertz.
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National: 24 Mar 06
Neither the Foreign Office (UD) nor the security police (Säpo) broke censorship laws when a website was shut down for publishing drawings of the prophet Muhammad, says the Chancellor of Justice.
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National: 23 Mar 06
Sweden's security police, Säpo, has revealed that serious threats were directed at Swedish embassies after the far right group Sweden Democrats published one of the pictures of the prophet Muhammad on its web site.
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Analysis & Opinion: 21 Mar 06
After a year of unrelenting criticism over her handling of the tsunami disaster and latterly of the Muhammad cartoons, Persson had little choice but to accept Laila Freivalds' resignation.
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Smörgåsbord: 20 Mar 06
Despite her claim to the contrary, foreign minister Laila Freivalds knew her department was to contact the company which closed down the web site of the Sweden Democrats. She should resign, say opposition leaders.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 06
Two years ago an official inquiry proposed that it should be compulsory to report abnormalities in foetuses and new-born children - but still only every other foetus with Down's Syndrome is reported. The consequences could be serious.
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National: 7 Jan 06
Sweden's Chancellor of Justice, Göran Lambertz, claims that innocent people are in prison because the police lie and the courts are in too much of a hurry. But the justice system is not in crisis, he says.
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National: 23 Dec 05
One of Sweden's most senior law officers is investigating tabloid Expressen over allegations it made about actor Mikael Persbrandt. The paper's coverage amounted to harrassment and persecution, says the actor's lawyer.
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Politics: 22 Dec 05
A local politician accused of running up huge bills on his work mobile for calls to sex chat lines has quit. He accuses Social Democrats on the council of homophobia, but can still draw on a 11.7 million kronor pension.
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National: 25 Nov 05
Sweden's Justice Chancellor supports the Appeal Court's decision to reduce a 14 year old rape victim's compensation, despite criticism by politicians and child rights organisations.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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