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Court slashes sentence in 'honour killing' case

National: 7 May 13
A Swedish court has reduced a prison sentence for a 17-year-old boy found guilty of fatally stabbing his sister more than 100 times after she fled a forced marriage, in what the court referred to as an "honour killing". READ »

MP turns herself in for child porn offence

Politics: 28 Mar 13
A Swedish parliamentarian has reported herself to the police for possessing child pornography, in a bid to get Swedes to question the current laws. READ »

Ikea not guilty in ball-pit discrimination suit

Business & Money: 19 Mar 13
Swedish furniture giant Ikea is not guilty of discrimination for refusing to allow a disabled 5-year-old girl play in a ball pit at one of their stores, a Swedish court ruled on Monday. READ »

Pirate Bay appeal denied by European court

Science & Technology: 14 Mar 13
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has rejected an appeal by two founders of Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, ruling their conviction by Swedish courts was "justified". READ »

Pirate Party targeted in push to close Pirate Bay

Science & Technology: 20 Feb 13
Lawyers representing Swedish copyright holders have threatened legal action against the Pirate Party in a fresh attempt to shutter filesharing site The Pirate Bay. READ »

Swedish court upholds tabloid gun crime verdict

National: 19 Feb 13
The editor of Swedish tabloid Expressen and two journalists are guilty of gun crimes, a Swedish court ruled on Tuesday, upholding a lower court ruling that their investigative sting into buying black-market weapons in Malmö was illegal. READ »

Retrial for man convicted in 'shaken baby' case

National: 9 Jan 13
A father convicted of shaking his infant daughter to death has been granted a retrial by Sweden's Supreme Court in a case that could result in a re-examination of other cases of "shaken baby syndrome". READ »

Lenient drug sentences worry Swedish police

National: 1 Jan 13
The Swedish Supreme Court has become more lenient when sentencing drug dealers, a trend that worries police who say it endangers their counter-narcotics work. READ »

Serb jailed for war crimes freed by Swedish court

National: 29 Nov 12
A 35-year-old Serbian previously convicted by a Swedish court of war crimes stemming from a massacre in Kosovo in 1999 has been ordered released by a court of appeal, according to his lawyer. READ »

Lip-eating husband appeals his sentence

Society: 22 Nov 12
The professor who sliced off and devoured his young wife’s bottom lip so "she could never kiss someone again" has appealed his five-year prison sentence for aggravated assault. READ »

Acquitted man admits to killing after 12 years

National: 23 Oct 12
After 12 years, a 34-year-old man has confessed to killing a 51-year-old father of four in Skövde in central Sweden in 2000, telling police he needed to clear his conscience. READ »

King refuses to give teen activist WWF award

Science & Technology: 18 Oct 12
Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf has broken with tradition and refused to present a prestigious environmental prize to a teen activist who led protests against the construction of a quarry on the Baltic island of Gotland. READ »

Supreme Court to review disputed mining permit

Science & Technology: 18 Sep 12
Sweden's Supreme Court gave hope to environmental activists on Monday when it announced it would review a the validity of a permit allowing mining company Nordkalk to open a limestone quarry in Gotland's Ojnare forest. READ »

Pirate Bay founder arrested in Cambodia

Science & Technology: 1 Sep 12
Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, one of the founders of the file sharing website The Pirate Bay has been arrested in Cambodia after an international warrant was issued following a conviction in Sweden for copyright violations. READ »

Sweden's Ipred law had little effect: report

Science & Technology: 17 Aug 12
A recent review of Sweden's controversial Ipred law, giving copyright owners the right to request IP-addresses of suspected illegal file sharers, shows that there were only eleven cases between 2009 and 2012. READ »

Genocide suspect’s appeal denied in Europe

National: 14 Jun 12
The Rwandan citizen, under arrest in Sweden for three years following genocide charges in Rwanda and currently residing in Denmark, will not have his extradition case reviewed further in Europe. READ »

Supreme Court mulls manga child porn appeal

Society: 16 May 12
The highly publicized appeal of a Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics convicted of child pornography crimes was brought up in Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, to an auditorium filled to the rafters. READ »

Manga images 'not child porn': police expert

Society: 15 May 12
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday discuss a case concerning whether the Japanese manga images found on a man’s computer should be viewed as child porn, something a police expert strongly warns against. READ »

Pirate Bay founder takes case to European court

Science & Technology: 14 May 12
One of the founders of Swedish file share site The Pirate Bay is turning to the European Court of Human Rights in the hopes of having his guilty verdict overturned, claiming his conviction violates his freedom of speech. READ »

Man beats smuggling rap because he 'drinks a lot'

Society: 3 May 12
A man was caught taking thousands of litres of beer and other alcoholic beverages into Sweden has been acquitted of smuggling charges after a court ruled it's plausible the man simply "drinks a lot". READ »

Russia 'blocks' Stockholm property sale

Business & Money: 16 Apr 12
The Swedish Enforcement Authority was about to seize and sell a property in Stockholm belonging to the Russian Trade Delegation when a letter to the agency from the country’s embassy stopped the proceedings. READ »

Huge rise in Swedish rape acquittals: study

National: 26 Mar 12
The frequency of rape case acquittals in Sweden has increased dramatically in recent years, new research has shown, and scholars have a theory as to what lay behind the trend. READ »

Swedes' anti-gay flyers not free speech: court

Society: 9 Feb 12
Sweden’s Supreme Court was right to convict four men of hate crimes for distributing "offensive" homophobic flyers at a school, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled. READ »

Supreme Court denies Pirate Bay right to appeal

Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
The Swedish Supreme Court will not grant the right to appeal in the Pirate Bay case, the court announced on Wednesday, marking the end of the four defendants' legal battle in Sweden. READ »

Arboga child murderer seeks right to appeal

National: 3 Jan 12
Christine Schürrer, the German woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister in 2008, is now applying for leave to appeal her verdict to the Supreme Court. READ »

'Suspects can claim they were drunk and go free'

Society: 1 Nov 11
The recent acquittal by Sweden's Supreme Court of a man charged with attempted murder because he claimed he was “too intoxicated” to remember the incident, has been slammed by legal experts. READ »

Supreme Court declines honour killing case

National: 8 Aug 11
The Supreme Court of Sweden (Högsta Domstolen) will not re-open the Högsby honour killing case, the court announced on Monday. READ »

Sami win long fight for reindeer grazing rights

National: 27 Apr 11
Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled that Sami reindeer herders in northern Sweden can continue to let their animals graze in forests despite the objections of landowners, ending a 20 year dispute. READ »

'Walking a scooter while drunk is a crime': court

National: 14 Apr 11
Pedaling a scooter forward with your feet while inebriated constitutes drunken driving, Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled. READ »

Three appeal helicopter heist sentence

National: 17 Mar 11
Three of the men convicted for their roles in the spectacular helicopter heist in Västberga in September 2009 have appealed their sentences to the Supreme Court. READ »

Top Swedish judges attend 'poker school'

Society: 23 Feb 11
An expert poker player gave Sweden's Supreme Court judges a lesson on the art of playing cards on Tuesday in a case examining whether Texas Hold'em is a game of skill or chance. READ »

Sweden mulls legality of the baseball bat

Sport: 22 Feb 11
Sweden's Supreme Court is to consider whether wielding a baseball bat in a public place is against the law. READ »

Texas Hold'em case heads for supreme court

Society: 22 Feb 11
Sweden's Supreme Court on Tuesday opened the case of four men convicted for arranging an illegal poker tournament, a ruling which experts believe may allow for more competition for Sweden’s state-owned gambling monopoly. READ »

Swedish mass murderer gets four more years

National: 21 Dec 10
Swedish mass murderer Mattias Flink, convicted of killing seven people, is set to be released in 2019 after the appeals court extended the term of his life sentence from 32 to 36 years. READ »

Supreme court receives Pirate Bay appeal

Science & Technology: 20 Dec 10
Carl Lundström, one of the four defendants in The Pirate Bay trial has confirmed that he is appealing the sentence imposed by the Swedish appeals court. READ »

Anti-piracy law test case sent to EU court

National: 16 Sep 10
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law in April 2009 is heading for the EU Court of Justice after a decision by the Supreme Court. READ »

Swedish ISP seeks EU file sharing ruling

Business & Money: 30 Jun 10
Swedish broadband operator Comhem wants a district court to seek the advice of the EU Court of Justice over an anti-file sharing law (Ipred) case, after the Supreme Court indicated that a test case was destined for the EU Court. READ »

Anti-piracy law test case 'on its way' to EU Court

Science & Technology: 4 Jun 10
The first case tried since the passage of Sweden's anti-file sharing law in April 2009 looks destined for the EU Court of Justice after a decision by the Supreme Court. READ »

TeliaSonera appeals anti-piracy ruling

Business & Money: 21 May 10
Swedish telecom firm TeliaSonera has announced its intention to appeal to the Supreme Court an anti-piracy law ruling ordering the firm to hand over the names and addresses of people behind a file sharing website. READ »

Pirate Bay down as hosts bow to German court

Science & Technology: 18 May 10
Swedish file sharing website The Pirate Bay was out of service for a couple of hours on Tuesday morning after its German ISP bowed to Hollywood pressure to cut off its internet service. READ »

Pirate Bay judges ruled unbiased

Science & Technology: 12 May 10
The judges appointed to preside over the appeal of the four men found guilty in the Pirate Bay appeals hearing in September have been cleared from bias allegations, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. READ »

Legal council says no to drug tests for kids

National: 5 Mar 10
Sweden's Council on Legislation (Lagrådet) has ruled against a government legislative proposal to allow drug tests on children below the age of 15. READ »

Taking naked pictures of sleeping teen not a crime: court

National: 31 Dec 09
A court in Halmstad on the southwest coast of Sweden has dismissed charges against a man who reportedly took a photo of a 17-year-old girl's genitals while she was sleeping. READ »

Outrage as civic 'angel' sent to prison

National: 5 Nov 09
Per-Anders Pettersson intervened to save a 66-year-old woman from assault. But instead of being lauded for exercising his civic duty he is now about to start a prison sentence in a case that has sparked outrage in Sweden. READ »

Outspoken prosecutor taken off rape cases

National: 20 Aug 09
Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren, who was reported to the justice ombudsman for referring to some cases of rape as mere regulatory offences, will no longer work on sex crime cases, it has been announced. READ »

Prosecutor reported over rape comments

National: 17 Aug 09
Swedish district prosecutor Rolf Hillegren has been reported to the justice ombudsman for published comments in which he classified some categories of rape as mere regulatory offences. READ »

Supreme Court in landmark rape rulings

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. READ »

Axe attack feud 'not as simple as it seems'

National: 18 May 09
A neighbourhood feud in northern Sweden has captivated the media for several years - the accepted story being that a Roma family terrorized a whole village. But new details suggest that the truth may be quite different. READ »

Arboga murderer: 'Sweden not governed by law'

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. READ »

Arboga murderer appeals conviction a second time

National: 13 Mar 09
Christine Schürrer, the German woman found guilty of murdering two young children in Arboga last year, has appealed her life sentence. READ »

Court affirms mass murderer's life sentence

National: 27 Oct 08
An appeal by convicted mass murderer Mattias Flink to have his life sentence reduced was denied on Monday by the Göta Court of Appeal. READ »

Supreme Court: secret sex films not 'molestation'

Society: 24 Oct 08
Sweden’s Supreme Court has ruled that secretly filming someone having sex does not constitute molestation. READ »

Teen fined over internet sex film

Society: 28 Dec 07
A 15-year-old girl was fined on Thursday for filming her friends having sex in the garden. The girl published the film on the internet. READ »

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