February 15, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Göran_lambertz":
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: 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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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: 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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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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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: 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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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: 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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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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Politics: 20 Sep 07
A cartoon depicting Prophet Muhammad as a dog, published in a local Swedish newspaper in August, did not constitute incitement to racial hatred, Sweden's justice chancellor ruled on Thursday.
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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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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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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National: 26 May 05
"Judge not, lest ye be judged" is rendered somewhat passé as the Swedish Supreme Court allows a judge to keep his job after he admitted to paying a 20-year old rent boy for sex.
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National: 18 May 05
A judge of the Swedish Supreme Court has confessed to buying sex from a 20-year old rent boy. He is now expected to be fined, and the future of his career is uncertain.
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Society: 15 Jan 05
Uppsala University is forced to pay 75,000 crowns to two students who were refused places on the law programme because of their ethnicity. Both have parents who were born in Sweden.
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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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