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Anna Lindh killer in prison stabbing

National: 31 Dec 11
Mijailo Mijailovic, the man who brutally stabbed Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh to death in 2003, was involved in yet another violent incident on Thursday when he stabbed a fellow inmate in the stomach with a screwdriver. READ »

Life sentence for Malmö bouncer murder

National: 30 Dec 11
A 25-year-old member of the infamous criminal gang Brödraskapet has been sentenced to life in prison for killing a man outside an illegal night club in Malmö last summer. READ »

'Gang leader' shot dead in Malmö

National: 24 Nov 11
A 31-year-old man believed to be the head of a notorious criminal gang was killed in a shooting at an industrial site in Malmö, in southern Sweden, on Thursday morning. Police have yet to make an arrest in the case. READ »

Sister forgives conductor who kicked girl off train

National: 5 Aug 11
The older sister of the 11 year-old girl who was kicked off a train earlier this week is ready to put the incident behind her and doesn't want the conductor to be fired, she stated in an interview on Friday. READ »

Union backs conductor who kicked girl off train

National: 4 Aug 11
A union has leapt to the defence of the train conductor who was suspended after throwing an 11-year-old girl off a train on Wednesday because the girl didn't have a ticket. READ »

Missing girl found after being kicked off train

National: 3 Aug 11
An 11-year-old girl went missing Tuesday night near Kumla in central Sweden after being forced from a train because she was unable to show her ticket. READ »

Swedish lifers are living as monks

Lifestyle: 26 Apr 10
At Skänninge prison, twelve lifers and long-termers are being given the chance to live in a monastic community. They are the result of a unique Jesuit experiment. Lysanne Sizoo spent a day with the Brothers. READ »

Prison closures needed to keep authority afloat

National: 25 Oct 09
An overhaul of Swedish prisons will see 14 institutions affected by closures and cutbacks as the appointed authority is forced to juggle figures in line with its budget for 2010. READ »

'Super bunker' houses Sweden's top criminals

National: 14 Aug 09
The new high security bunker at Kumla prison in central Sweden is now home to around a dozen of Sweden's most hardened criminals. The facility has space for 24 in total. READ »

EU anti-torture body blasts Swedish jails

National: 4 Aug 09
The Council of Europe's anti-torture body has criticized Sweden for the long periods of isolation endured by inmates in the country's jails and remand prisons. READ »

Swedish metal heads get ready to rock for Jesus

Society: 12 Jun 09
God-fearing heavy metal fans in Sweden now have a place to go to bang their heads and worship Jesus at the same time. READ »

Two men jailed over rape of teen boy

National: 27 May 09
Two 20-year-old men have been sentenced to three years in prison for raping a 17-year-old boy at a party in Kumla in central Sweden. READ »

Gang leader studies fraud law in prison

Society: 1 Apr 09
While imprisoned for serious drugs offences, Andreas Olsson, the leader of the Bandidos organized crime gang in Stockholm, has been studying courses in financial criminal law at the taxpayer's expense. READ »

Swedish teen boy raped by group of men

National: 27 Mar 09
At least six young men are suspected of raping a 17-year-old boy at a party in Kumla in central Sweden on Saturday night. READ »

Sweden assists Montenegro with napalm disposal

Science & Technology: 12 Nov 08
Sweden is helping Montenegro dispose of 26 tonnes of napalm that was stored at a military facility in the Bay of Kotor, a popular tourist destination on its Adriatic coast. READ »

Stockholm population reaches highest level since 1960s

Society: 14 Aug 08
High immigration figures have contributed to increased population figures across Sweden. READ »

'Laser Man' seeks his freedom

National: 23 Apr 08
After 16 years behind bars, John Ausonius, better known as the Laser Man wants to have a time limit placed his lifetime prison sentence. READ »

Worry over prison smoking ban

National: 23 Dec 07
Guards in Sweden's jails have expressed concern that a ban on smoking due to come into force on January 1st will lead to increased violence. READ »

Test your Swedish geography skills

Travel: 14 Dec 07
How well do you know your Swedish geography? Take the test. READ »

Bomber given record jail spell

National: 4 Oct 07
A Palestinian serving a life sentence for bombing a synagogue and an airline office in Copenhagen has had his life sentence limited to thirty years - the longest fixed-period tariff ever handed down in Sweden. READ »

Prisoner chops off ear in protest

National: 3 Oct 07
An inmate at a jail in central Sweden has cut off his ear in protest at restrictions on visits from his family. The prisoner is one of several on hunger strike in the high security wing of Kumla Jail. READ »

Murderer on strike over 'hug ban'

Society: 1 Oct 07
A notorious police murderer in one of Sweden's top-security jails has started a hunger strike over what he claims is guards' refusal to let him hug his relatives. But the prison service denies there is a hug ban. READ »

War criminal dies in Swedish prison

National: 20 May 07
A Bosnian Serb war criminal died on Saturday in a Swedish jail. Miroslav Deronjic, 52, died a natural death, according to prison officials. READ »

Knutby pastor becomes engaged

National: 29 Dec 06
Pastor Helge Fossmo, who encouraged his nanny to kill his second wife by sending text messages purporting to be from God, has become engaged from his prison cell. READ »

Pettersson linked to Mockfjärd gun

National: 23 Nov 06
Christer Pettersson, prime suspect for the assassination of Olof Palme, may have bought a weapon found this week in a lake in Dalarna. The revelation comes from one of the men linked to the gun. READ »

War crimes suspect lectures future police officers

National: 4 Nov 06
Seven years ago Jackie Arklöv shot two policemen dead. On Friday he will appear in court accused of Balkan war crimes. Now he is lecturing to police students who visit him in prison. READ »

Lindh killer charged with assault

National: 3 Aug 06
The man who murdered Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh in 2003 has been charged with assaulting a patient at a psychiatric asylum. READ »

Sweden could ban smoking in prison

Society: 25 Apr 06
Swedish prisoners could soon be forced to go without one of the traditional indulgences of life behind bars: cigarettes. READ »

Hundreds evacuated as Tyresö fire rages

National: 26 Mar 06
Hundreds of people were evacuated from their homes overnight in Tyresö outside Stockholm after a massive blaze broke out on a nearby industrial estate. A high risk of explosion is obstructing the work of the fire service. READ »

17 year old hangs himself in police custody

National: 14 Jan 06
After less than two hours in custody, a 17 year old boy being held by Örebro police hanged himself early on Saturday morning. An internal investigation has begun. READ »

Four million kronor stamp scam revealed

National: 23 Nov 05
A raid on a warehouse west of Stockholm uncovers 800,000 counterfeit stamps. And the prime suspect in the scam is the head of a company which hires out PO boxes in competition with Posten. READ »

Flight restrictions over Swedish prisons from next year

National: 17 Nov 05
As part of the ongoing work to plug the holes in Sweden's leaky prisons, the government agrees to introduce a ban on flights over five of the country's high security prisons. READ »

Back to prison for Lindh killer

National: 8 Oct 05
Mijailo Mijailovic, who last year was found guilty of murdering Sweden's former foreign minister Anna Lindh, is to be transferred out of psychiatric care and back into Stockholm's maximum security prison, Kumla. READ »

Lindh killer attacks fellow patient

National: 21 Sep 05
Mijailo Mijailovic, who murdered Sweden's former foreign minister Anna Lindh in 2003, has brutally attacked another inmate at the secure psychiatric clinic in Sundsvall where he is being treated. READ »

Mijailovic transferred to asylum

National: 11 Sep 05
SEE ALSO: SIX PEOPLE WERE ARRESTED FOR LINDH MURDER
Mijailo Mijailovic, who killed Swedish foreign minister Anna Lindh exactly 2 years ago, has been moved to a psychiatric unit. A doctor decided he was unwell and needed help, the asylum says. READ »

Escapes from Swedish prisons cut by half

National: 22 Jul 05
The prison service appears to be plugging the leaks in its secure units. Last summer a series of high profile escapes dominated the headlines - this year, prisons director Lars Nylén can enjoy the fruits of his zero tolerance policy. READ »

Swedish Supreme Court jails Mijailovic for life

National: 2 Dec 04
It's the end of the legal line for the man who killed foreign minister Anna Lindh in September 2003, as Sweden's top court reverses the Appeal Court's decision and puts Mijailo Mijailovic in prison for life. READ »

Swedish prisons "full of psychopaths"

National: 4 Nov 04
A new report suggests that a massive proportion of violent criminals should have been given psychiatric care instead of long term prison sentences. That's what the man suspected of murdering Helén Nilsson in 1989 is hoping for - but the Linköping double killer is still at large. READ »

Escapism: fugitives caught

National: 30 Jul 04
For two days Sweden watches while the police throw everything they've got at the tricky task of tracking down convicted killer Tony Olsson, who escaped from prison with three others on Tuesday night. READ »


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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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