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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Mar 13
Justice Minister Beatrice Ask's clumsy statements in response to criticism of police efforts to deport illegal immigrants have left historian and commentator David Lindén feeling like a criminal for looking "non-Swedish".
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Politics: 21 Nov 12
The Sweden Democrats have relieved youth group leader Gustav Kasselstrand from his duties as political secretary for the party in the Riksdag, after he defended a colleague implicated in the recent racist scandal.
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Politics: 15 Nov 12
As the far-right Sweden Democrats react to an unfolding scandal stemming from a video clip displaying bad behaviour by leading party members, experts claim the episode may cause a simmering rift to finally break open.
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Politics: 15 Nov 12
Sweden Democrat MP Kent Ekeroth said he is "ashamed" of how he behaved in a racist video clip published this week, while party leader Jimmie Åkesson called the situation "really bad" amid signs of a split in the party.
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Analysis & Opinion: 15 Nov 12
Amid a still unfolding scandal for the Sweden Democrats, the opinion pages of Sweden's four main newspapers agree that the party has lost its painstakingly crafted non-racist front once and for all.
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Politics: 9 Jun 12
The youth league of the Sweden Democrats has accepted almost 900,000 kronor ($125,000) in funding from Helsingborg municipality without being entitled to the money.
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Politics: 5 Mar 12
The Sweden Democrats' youth wing wants to entice jobless immigrants to leave the country by offering them "goodie bags" complete with tips on how to facilitate immigrants' departure from Sweden.
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Analysis & Opinion: 27 May 11
In the final days of his shortened term as US ambassador to Sweden, Matthew Barzun tells The Local's David Landes about what Sweden can teach the world about balance as he prepares to help US President Barack Obama get reelected.
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National: 24 May 11
Swedish Security Service (Säpo) thinks that Swedish laws on espionage are outdated while the government called for an inquiry last year following the discovery of under-cover investigations in Sweden.
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National: 23 May 11
US intelligence agents entered Sweden to spy on suspected terrorists without permission from the Swedish government, according to media reports.
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Politics: 10 Apr 11
Eggs flew through the air and several hundred counter-demonstrators chanted "No racists in our streets" to protest against a march by the youth wing of the far-right Sweden Democrats in Gothenburg on Sunday.
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Politics: 5 Apr 11
A Sweden Democrat politician in Mönsterås in south-eastern Sweden published police photos of a raped and murdered 27-year-old woman in a blog post which used the words "negro rape".
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Politics: 4 Apr 11
A prosecutor looking into whether a surveillance programme run by the US embassy in Stockholm violated Swedish law has dropped the investigation.
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National: 3 Mar 11
An investigation into the legality of a surveillance programme run by the US embassy in Stockholm has been hampered by a refusal of people involved to answer questions about the operation, a prosecutor said on Thursday.
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Politics: 23 Nov 10
The Swedish Riksdag’s constitutional committee has announced that it will look into what current and former cabinet ministers knew about the US embassy in Stockholm's surveillance of people in Sweden.
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National: 19 Nov 10
Sweden’s former Social Democratic government was informed in 2002 about a surveillance programme run by the US embassy in Stockholm, secret documents reveal.
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Politics: 8 Nov 10
A Swedish prosecutor announced plans on Monday to open a formal investigation into the legality of information gathering activities carried out by the US embassy in Stockholm.
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Politics: 6 Nov 10
Swedish Justice Minister Beatrice Ask has confirmed that the US embassy in Sweden has undertaken similar secret surveillance measures since 2000 that have also occurred in Norway and Denmark.
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National: 6 Apr 09
Leading members of the far-right Sweden Democrats sang racist songs while attending a party conference. Party leader Jimmie Åkesson was among the singers.
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Politics: 18 Feb 09
Swedish prosecutors have begun investigating four politicians from the far right Sweden Democrat party who are accused of locking an investigative reporter into a ferry cabin and stealing a video camera she had hidden in her handbag.
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