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Sweden launches inquiry into forced marriage

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. READ »

Rogue British bishop fined for Holocaust denial

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. READ »

Islam 'Sweden's biggest threat': far-right leader

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. READ »

Sweden to replace top legal official

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. READ »

Reinfeldt rejects congressmen's plea to scold Aftonbladet

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. READ »

Swedish tabloid cleared over Israel organ claims

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. READ »

Sweden's free speech tradition draws Israeli ire

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. READ »

Swedish tabloid reported for racial agitation

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. 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 »

Germany denied help in bishop probe

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. 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 »

Swedes block Danish neo-Nazi extradition

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. READ »

Egyptian compensated for forced deportation

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. READ »

Sweden pays damages to fired intern

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. READ »

Sweden pays damages to Egyptian deportee

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. READ »

Ruling: school wrong to deny right-wing extremists

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. READ »

Sweden rejects child prostitution damages claim

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. READ »

'Muhammad cartoon not racial agitation'

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. READ »

No money back for confiscated booze

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. READ »

'To speak Skånska is to puke a little'

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. READ »

Prosecutor investigates Bildt's blog

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. READ »

'Bouncer beat me - police arrested me'

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. READ »

Nightclub guards to be probed by top official

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. READ »

Justice minister backs controversial Chancellor of Justice

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. READ »

Uppsala discriminated against Swedes

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. READ »

Football hooligan forced home in flimsy footwear

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. READ »

Persbrandt meets Expressen in court

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. READ »

New authority should grant retrials

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. READ »

Prosecutor slammed for holding back information

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. READ »

Gay hate law 'mostly hot air'

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. READ »

UD and Säpo cleared over website closure

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. READ »

Police lies jail innocent people - justice chief

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. READ »

Expressen investigated over Persbrandt "lies"

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. READ »

Appeal Court "right to cut child rape compensation"

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. READ »

Rent boy judge to keep job

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. READ »

Rent boy judge confesses

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. READ »

University's ethnic quotas declared unlawful

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. READ »


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12 February 21:30

The consciousness of one »

"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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'Drunkorexia' on the rise in Sweden: report
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Seven Swedish designs that will blow your mind
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Star Wars in Swedish causes fan outrage
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The Swedish language needs a new pronoun free of preconceived notions about gender, a Swedish linguist and representatives from a publishing house argue
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Madonna set for July 4th concert in Sweden
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GALLERY »
An inside look at 'The Office' in Swedish
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SOCIETY »
Swedish mother gave 3-year-old cigs and beer
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SOCIETY »
A duvet cover designed to look like cardboard boxes, on sale at a luxury department store in Stockholm, has some arguing that the city's homeless are being exploited for profit.
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LIFESTYLE »
Five Swedish songs that never made Eurovision
Q&A with Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley
LIFESTYLE »
Swenglish comedy star Ben Kersley explains how ‘three bespectacled English guys’ plan to make Swedes laugh
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SOCIETY »
Move over Bugs – a Swedish bunny is rapidly becoming the most popular rabbit in the world!
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Swedish word of the day

fin

adjective

Fin means anyhting from sweet to proper. When someone says, Du är så fin it's quite a compliment.



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