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The following articles have been tagged with "Hets_mot_folkgrupp":

Dressing like Hitler not a crime: Swedish court

National: 7 Mar 13
A 24-year-old man who attended a party dressed as Nazi leader Adolf Hitler has been acquitted of hate crime charges by a Swedish court. READ »

Swedish court convicts man for Hitler salute

Society: 31 Jan 13
A man who performed a Nazi salute in a park in southern Sweden has been convicted of racial agitation by a Malmö court, the first time in three years a local resident has been convicted of a hate crime. READ »

Sweden Democrat hate speech probe dropped

Politics: 28 Nov 12
The prosecutor’s office has closed the investigation into whether three disgraced Sweden Democrat politicians violated hate speech laws when they went on a much-publicized racist tirade in central Stockholm. READ »

'Islam is like Nazism': top Sweden Democrat

Politics: 22 Nov 12
The Sweden Democrats' new justice policy spokesman, unveiled on Thursday as part of a reshuffle in the wake of a racist video scandal, has already made headlines for his comparison of Islamism to Nazism. READ »

Ekeroth makes 'time out' permanent

Politics: 21 Nov 12
Sweden Democrat Kent Ekeroth, who last week said he was taking a "time out" from his role as the party’s justice policy spokesman, announced on Wednesday he would step down permanently, but would keep his seat in the Riksdag. READ »

Sweden Democrats in race-hate probe

Politics: 20 Nov 12
The prosecutor has launched a formal investigation into whether the politicians who filmed themselves drunkenly using racist language are guilty of racial agitation, a crime that could earn them two years in prison. READ »

Gothenburg tram driver charged for racial slur

National: 5 Aug 11
A Gothenburg tram driver has been charged with racial agitation after uttering slurs into the trolley's speaker system in reference to a group of teenage boys. READ »

Swedish neo-Nazi site charged with hate speech

National: 22 Jul 11
Charges have been filed against the publisher of a website affiliated with a Swedish neo-Nazi movement for allowing a reader comment containing racial slurs to remain on the site. READ »

Swedish court: naked Muhammad pics legal

National: 16 Mar 11
A Swedish court has ruled that depicting the prophet Muhammad naked together with his nine-year-old wife naked is legal, freeing a local politician on charges of racial agitation. READ »

Politician on trial for nude Muhammad poster

National: 3 Mar 11
A Swedish politician facing charges for producing a poster depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad naked together with his nine-year-old wife was found not guilty by a jury in Malmö on Wednesday. READ »

Net rumours lead to anti-refugee egg attack

National: 1 Mar 11
A group of right-wing extremists threw eggs and hurled racial slurs outside a housing facility for unaccompanied refugee children near Stockholm after internet rumours about a suspected sexual assault spiraled out of control. READ »

Neo-Nazi site charged over reader comment

Society: 16 Nov 10
Charges have been filed against the publisher of a website affiliated with a Swedish neo-Nazi magazine for allowing a reader comment with racial slurs to remain on the site. READ »

Cops fined over racist remarks

National: 25 Mar 10
Two police officers have each been docked five days' wages for racist slurs made during disturbances in Malmö's Rosengård district in December 2008. READ »

Liberals open to Green support to block far-right

Politics: 23 Oct 09
Liberal party leader Jan Björklund has opened up the possibility of cooperating with the Green party if the far-right Sweden Democrats garnered enough votes to hold the balance of power after the 2010 election. 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 »

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 »

No charges for cop's racist remarks

National: 19 Jun 09
Prosecutors have abandoned their investigation into the case of a Malmö police officer who uttered racist slurs during disturbances in Malmö's Rosengård district in December. READ »

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