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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 »

Police teacher warned after 'monkey' comments

Society: 6 Feb 12
An instructor at a Swedish police academy has been accused of hate crimes for referring to a trainee officer with a foreign background as a "monkey". READ »

Anti-Semitic crimes on the rise in Malmö

Society: 11 Nov 11
Jews in Malmö in southern Sweden have been the victims of an increased number of hate-crimes in 2011, according to local police. READ »

Prosecutor: slave auction was 'costume party'

National: 28 Oct 11
A ”slave auction” held by a Lund student group in April was a ”costume party” meaning no charges will be filed against the organizers. However, charges have been filed against an artist who drew up demeaning posters of the person who reported the incident. READ »

No punishment for Swedish cop who called gays a 'cancer on society'

Society: 27 Oct 11
The police officer from southern Sweden who called homosexuals a “cancer on society” in reference to a lesbian colleague, will not face any disciplinary measures. READ »

Two men charged for Breivik 'tribute' attack

National: 27 Sep 11
Two men arrested in Västerås on suspicion of attempted murder expressed support for Anders Behring Breivik's massacre in Norway prior to stabbing two men of non-Swedish origin, according to a police report. READ »

'We were all Americans, at least for a while'

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Sep 11
On the tenth anniversary of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks, The Local reaches out to a few Swedes and Americans for their thoughts about the attacks and their impact. READ »

Lund 'slave auction' prompts police probe

Society: 8 Sep 11
One person is suspected of hate speech in connection with a party at Lund University in April featuring the sale of "slaves" complete with blackened faces and ropes around their necks. READ »

New millions for Swedish synagogue security

Society: 5 Sep 11
The Swedish government has promised new funds to help boost security around the country's synagogues following accusations that Sweden hasn't done enough to protect it's Jewish population. READ »

Swedish cop: gays a 'cancer on society'

Society: 2 Sep 11
A police officer in Malmö in southern Sweden is under investigation after having called homosexuals a “cancer on society” in reference to a lesbian colleague who also serves as the department's hate crimes educator. READ »

Man fined for Nazi salute

National: 27 Aug 11
In the second case of its kind in recent months, a man from Småland in southern Sweden has been fined for making Nazi salutes shouting ”Heil Hitler”. READ »

Religious conflict on the rise in Sweden: study

National: 10 Aug 11
Sweden is one of the ten countries worldwide where social hostilities related to religion are increasing the most, according to a newly published American study. READ »

Anti-Semitic hate crime declines in Malmö: report

National: 17 Jul 11
Hate crimes against Jews living in Malmö are less than half as many as 2009's record-high number, according to reports in Swedish media. However, racist and islamophobic hate crimes are on the rise. READ »

Hate crime declines in Sweden: report

National: 30 Jun 11
The number of hate crimes committed in Sweden decreased in 2010 compared to the year before, according to fresh figures from Sweden’s National Council of Crime Prevention. READ »

Malmö mayor in new 'anti-Semitism' row

Politics: 18 Mar 11
The conflict between the US-based Wiesenthal Center and Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu has taken another acrimonious turn after he was accused of anti-Semitism and echoing "conspiracy theories against Jews in the 1930s". READ »

Wiesenthal Center slams Sweden for 'Jewish tax'

Society: 15 Mar 11
An influential US Jewish group criticised Sweden for imposing the equivalent of a "Jewish tax" on the country's Jewish community, saying it had no plans to lift its advisory warning Jews against traveling in the south of the country. . READ »

US Jewish centre meets Malmö mayor

National: 14 Mar 11
A US-based Jewish group was in Malmö in southern Sweden on Monday to meet with the mayor Ilmar Reepalu to discuss initiatives for improving the safety and security of the city's Jewish population. READ »

Jews still struggle to feel at home in Malmö

Analysis & Opinion: 16 Feb 11
A year after claims about an exodus of Jews from Malmö made global headlines, many Jewish residents still don't feel safe in southern Sweden, The Local's Karen Holst discovers. READ »

Jews warned about visiting southern Sweden

Society: 16 Dec 10
A US-based Jewish group has issued a travel warning urging Jews to exercise "extreme caution" when traveling in southern Sweden. READ »

Local Sweden Democrat: 'ban' practicing Muslims

Politics: 11 Sep 10
A local politician from the far-right Sweden Democrats argued during an election debate on Thursday that Muslims shouldn't be allowed to practice their faith in Strömsund in northwestern Sweden. READ »

Transgender need more protection in law

Society: 28 Jul 10
Transgender people need more protection, the Liberal Party has announced, adding it proposes that the hate crime law be clarified so that it is clear that it also applies to this group, Sveriges Radio's news bulletin Ekot reported on Wednesday. READ »

Anti-Semitic hate crimes rise in 2009: report

National: 2 Jul 10
The number of anti-Semitic crimes reported in Sweden rose 57 percent last year, mainly in the southern region of Skåne, the national crime prevention council said on Thursday. READ »

Liberal leader meets embattled Malmö Jews

Politics: 25 Apr 10
Education minister Jan Björklund met with representatives of the Jewish Community in Malmö on Saturday to discuss a recent rise in the level of harassment and threats faced by Jews in the southern city. READ »

Malmö mayor says unaware of level of attacks on Jews

Politics: 26 Feb 10
Malmö mayor Ilmar Reepalu conceded that he has not been sufficiently well informed about the vulnerable situation faced by Jews after meeting with community leaders on Thursday. READ »

Jews flee Malmö as anti-Semitism grows

Society: 27 Jan 10
Threats and harassment are becoming increasingly commonplace for Jewish residents in Malmö in southern Sweden, leading many Jews to leave the city out of fear for their safety. READ »

Sweden slammed for UN rights failures

National: 9 Nov 09
Sweden has come in for harsh criticism from the country's United Nations association and 15 other organizations for failing to abide by a number of UN conventions. READ »

'Cyncism prevails for vote-hungry officials in Sweden and Israel'

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Aug 09
As the Aftonbladet organ harvesting scandal rumbles to the end of its second week, Stockholm-based Israeli writer David Stavrou calls on policy makers in Sweden and Israel to shed light on the situation rather than turning up the heat. READ »

Three of four hate crimes racist: report

National: 29 Jun 09
Three quarters of all hate crimes reported in Sweden are xenophobic or racially motivated, according to a new report. READ »

Man beaten in vicious hate crime

National: 19 Jan 09
A man with an immigrant background was insulted before being brutally beaten with a baseball bat in the town Arnö, outside of Nyköping in eastern Sweden. READ »

Hate crimes plague Södertälje refugees

National: 18 Nov 08
Muslims and newly arrived refugees in Södertälje, just south of Stockholm, are being subjected to harassment and hate crimes, according to police. 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 »

Swedish mosque arsonist held for hate crime

National: 22 Aug 08
A man in his twenties has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a mosque in Strömsund, northern Sweden. READ »

Mosque fire 'could have been arson'

National: 15 Aug 08
A fire that broke out in a mosque in northern Sweden on Thursday night could have been started deliberately, police say. READ »

Hate-crime murderer appeals life sentence

National: 11 Aug 08
A 35-year-old man sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a 43-year-old homosexual man and the attempted murder of another homosexual man has appealed against his sentence. READ »

Gays attacked by three boys

National: 3 Aug 08
Three youths arrested for the assault of two homosexuals in Stockholm last Monday, were held in custody on Saturday, and charged with robbery and grievous bodily harm. READ »

New hate crime at Europride

National: 30 Jul 08
Two men were subjected to homophobic insults and assaulted in central Stockholm early on Wednesday morning. Police have classified the assault as a hate crime. READ »

Hate crime mars Europride launch

National: 28 Jul 08
Two men were stabbed and robbed of their mobile telephones in the Tantolunden area of Södermalm in Stockholm on Sunday night in an attack police are classifying as a hate crime. READ »

'Serial murderer' charged in gay killing

National: 3 Jun 08
A 35-year-old man thought to be a serial murderer was indicted on Tuesday, suspected of murder, attempted murder, aggravated robbery, and theft. READ »

Convicted murderer expelled from doctor training

National: 24 Jan 08
Sweden's top medical university, the Karolinska Institute, has expelled a medical student with a prior conviction for murder. READ »

Man charged with brutal gay hate attacks

Society: 11 Jan 08
A man in Stockholm has been charged with murdering a 45-year-old man, after being arrested on Monday for allegedly trying to murder a man he met on a gay contact site. READ »

Convicted murderer trains as doctor

Society: 7 Nov 07
Sweden's top medical university has said it cannot expel a man accepted onto its medicine course who later turned out to be a convicted murderer. The man could now become licensed as a doctor in Sweden without a formal criminal check being carried out. READ »

Footballer denounces sport homophobia

Society: 2 Aug 07
The Nordic region's largest gay pride event, Stockholm Pride, was officially opened on Wednesday by former Liverpool and Sweden footballer Glenn Hysén, who spoke of the problem of homophobia in sport. READ »

Police struggle with hate crimes caseload

National: 30 Jul 07
Police at Stockholm's new hate crimes centre have been inundated with reports since opening the phone lines in June. READ »

Two charged with National Day assaults

National: 7 Jun 07
Two men, said by police to be right-wing extremists, have been charged with assaulting far-left protesters during a National Day march on Wednesday. READ »

Axe attack in central Stockholm

National: 28 May 07
A man has been arrested in central Stockholm on suspicion of having struck a woman in the head with an axe on Monday afternoon. READ »

Widespread ethnic discrimination in Stockholm bars

Society: 27 May 07
People with dark skin are routinely denied entry to bars and nightclubs in Stockholm, a police investigation has shown. READ »

Neo-Nazi convicted of gay-bashing

Society: 11 Apr 07
The leader of a neo-Nazi group in southern Sweden has been jailed for three months for an attack on the local headquarters of gay rights group RFSL. READ »

The Holocaust: Sweden's complex legacy

Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 07
Bystander in the Second World War, yet refuge for victims of the Nazis. A leader in promoting tolerance, yet with a resurgent far-right. David Stavrou looks at the complex legacy of the Holocaust in Sweden. READ »

Swastika display 'not a hate crime'

Society: 13 Dec 06
The bearer of a banner equating the swastika with the Star of David at a demonstration in Malmö during the summer will not face criminal charges. READ »

Swedish artist commits cardinal sin in Rome

National: 7 Dec 06
Italian police brought Swedish artist Elisabeth Ohlson Wallin’s photo shoot to a hasty end in Rome last Saturday. It seems cardinals with erections are frowned upon in the Catholic country. READ »

Sjödin 'should be jailed'

Politics: 28 Sep 06
Social Democrat youth leader Anna Sjödin should go to jail, the prosecution said at the end of her trial for assault. Sjödin's friends tell the court she was called a "whore" by guards she is accused of assaulting at a Stockholm nightclub. READ »

Far-right group convicted for gay hate pamphlets

Society: 6 Jul 06
Four right-wing extremists have been convicted in the Supreme Court after distributing anti-gay leaflets outside a school in Söderhamn. The men had previously been cleared in a lower court. READ »

Sick Bobby jokes under investigation

National: 24 May 06
The torture and murder of ten year old Bobby has become the subject of internet humour. On Wednesday a legal investigation was opened into a web site which published the sick jokes. READ »

Borås 'best place to be gay' in Sweden

Society: 15 May 06
It might not be the most obvious international gay destination and there's only one gay disco, but if you're a homo in search of a home you should apparently head to...Borås. READ »

Preachers, fascists and cartoonists

Lifestyle: 15 Feb 06
Freedom of speech or the right not to be offended? Sweden, with large immigrant groups and a liberal free-speech culture, has been wrestling with these issues long before the Muhammad cartoons burst onto the international scene. READ »

Women to the fore in Göteborg film fest

Lifestyle: 9 Feb 06
Graffiti artist film wins top award
An impressive line-up of movies from Sweden and abroad set Göteborg's film festival alight: and from the Swedish all-female 'Doris' movies to transsexual movie Transamerica, gender issues are at the fore. READ »

Eight suspected of hate crime

Society: 4 Feb 06
Eight people under the age of 19 were arrested on Friday night on suspicion of serious assault, after four homosexuals were attacked in central Stockholm. READ »

Gay hate group set free

National: 14 Dec 05
Four men who distributed far-right homophobic propaganda outside a school in Sundsvall have been found not guilty of hate crimes by an appeal court, which drew parallels with the Åke Green case. READ »

Discrimination law gives "poor yield"

Society: 10 Dec 05
Of 137 cases of suspected illegal discrimination in Malmö last year, only one led to a guilty verdict, says the Swedish Public Prosecutions Service. READ »

Hate crimes against gays increase

Society: 29 Nov 05
With interesting timing, a report from the Swedish intelligence service, Säpo, shows that verbal and physical abuse of homosexuals has risen in the last year. READ »

Åke Green cleared over gay sermon

Society: 29 Nov 05
The pastor sentenced to jail for a controversial sermon about homosexuality has been freed by Sweden's Supreme Court. He's relieved, but one Christian liberal says he'll go to hell. READ »

Put up and shut up?

Analysis & Opinion: 1 Sep 05
It's easy for foreigners' views about a country to come out half-baked, so should we just put up and shut up? Or can a fresh pair of eyes sometimes add something new to the debate? READ »

Swedish royals call in the lawyers over preacher

National: 19 Aug 05
Sweden's royals send in the lawyers against American extremist Christian Fred Phelps, after he published a rant against them on his anti-gay website. It's defamation, says the palace. READ »

Police "ignorant about hate crime"

National: 19 Jul 05
As the number of attacks motivated by the victim's sexuality or ethnicity increases, the police's ability to deal with them is hindered by a lack of understanding and awareness - says a report which has allegedly been covered up by the police. READ »

Anti-racism organisation wastes 14 million kronor

Politics: 17 Jul 05
White elephant or black hole? The government's flagship organisation for fighting racism in society has been accused of wasting massive amounts of taxpayers' money and of achieving "absolutely nothing" since it was set up two years ago. READ »

Green's sermon to become gay hate test case

National: 9 May 05
First he was convicted and then he was acquitted. The ding-dong battle of Åke Green and his controversial homophobic sermon is still not over. Now the Supreme Court must sort out the freedom of speech versus protection of minorities argument once and for all. READ »

Ten years for antiques expert killer

National: 5 May 05
A 29 year old petty criminal has been sentenced to ten years in prison for the brutal murder of popular TV antiques expert, Bengt Janson. The killer avoided a life sentence because he confessed, but his claims of self-defence were not believed. READ »

Green party proposes state loans for immigrant businesses

Politics: 16 Mar 05
Immigrants earn less than people born in Sweden, get arrested more often and are sentenced to longer jail terms. But the good news is that the Green party thinks the state should offer loans to immigrants wanting to start businesses. READ »

Anti-gay pastor wins appeal

Society: 11 Feb 05
Pentacostalist pastor Åke Green, who was jailed for saying that homosexuality was “a cancer on the face of society”, has had his conviction overturned, to the delight of religious groups. Gay campaigners say they are “disturbed” by the ruling, and prosecutors vow to take the case to the supreme court. READ »

Swedish pastor disowns US hate site

National: 7 Jan 05
An American church’s website that thanks God for “5,000 dead Swedes” has been condemned in Sweden. A Swedish Pentacostalist pastor who is hailed as a “martyr” on the site says he is “appalled”. READ »

Pride and prejudice

Society: 30 Jul 04
Tens of thousands are flocking to Stockholm for this year's Pride Festival - safety in numbers, perhaps, against rapidly increasing homophobic crime. READ »

Swedes and foreigners still poles apart

Society: 16 Apr 04
Segregation, racial prejudice and homophobia - no, it's not an article about Zimbabwe, it's Sweden. READ »

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