The following articles have been tagged with "Porn":
Society: 15 May 13
The use of half-naked women by American Apparel to sell "unisex" shirts has sparked sexism complaints in Sweden, resulting in the US fashion retailer being reported to the country's advertising watchdog.
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Politics: 28 Mar 13
A Swedish parliamentarian has reported herself to the police for possessing child pornography, in a bid to get Swedes to question the current laws.
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Business & Money: 15 Mar 13
A Swedish company with a dubious past has sent out invoices to thousands of Swedes demanding payment for allegedly visiting pornographic websites.
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Science & Technology: 4 Mar 13
A man working in elderly care in southern Sweden risks up to two years in prison after he spent almost all of an 82-year-old woman's savings on porn, alcohol, and a home cinema.
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National: 25 Feb 13
The man who abducted a nine-year-old girl in Gothenburg last year and threatened to sell her as a sex slave was sentenced to two years in prison on Monday after being found guilty of kidnapping.
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Science & Technology: 19 Feb 13
A Swedish website is helping start-ups tap their social media networks to find man-on-the-street equity investors, and in some cases dispel the scepticism of traditional bankrollers, The Local's Ann Törnkvist discovers.
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National: 1 Feb 13
A 25-year-old man has been charged with kidnapping and child porn crimes after he kidnapped a 9-year-old girl in Gothenburg late last year and threatened to sell her as a sex slave.
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Society: 18 Jan 13
A woman in southern Sweden has been charged for attempted assault after attacking a man with a frying pan full of Swedish sausages.
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Science & Technology: 10 Jan 13
Swedes leave a trail of sensitive information behind them as they ditch their old mobile phones, potentially making themselves vulnerable to fraud.
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Society: 7 Jan 13
A pornographic film was shown live during a Swedish television news broadcast on Monday adding an unexpected erotic twist to an otherwise sober report about embattled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad.
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Society: 21 Dec 12
Watching pornography and exposing oneself sexually online can enrich young people's lives, a Swedish researcher has found, but doing so also carries risks.
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National: 21 Dec 12
The man behind a paedophile name-and-shame website that publishes details of mostly foreign-born sex offenders has himself been jailed for sexually exploiting a minor, according to Swedish media reports.
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Society: 6 Dec 12
In a new series profiling Swedish newsmakers, The Local takes a look at Cecilia Malmström, the Swedish EU Commissioner who this week helped launch a global alliance to combat child pornography.
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National: 4 Dec 12
Representatives from Sweden and 46 other countries will meet in Brussels on Wednesday to coordinate efforts to combat child pornography.
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Business & Money: 3 Dec 12
A man has been sentenced to ten months in prison for setting up a prostitution website and for downloading child porn, which he claimed he did by accident.
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National: 27 Nov 12
A 61-year-old man was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Attunda District Court on Tuesday for raping two young children who were in his care, one of whom was just four years old.
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National: 27 Nov 12
A Swedish woman facing criminal charges for using human bones as sex toys appeared in court on Tuesday, and is claiming her innocence amid speculation that she wanted to start a pornographic website for necrophiliacs.
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National: 26 Nov 12
A man convicted for fatally abusing his 10-year-old stepson Bobby and then dumping the boy's body in a lake in one of Sweden's most high-profile criminal cases has been released after serving six years in prison.
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Science & Technology: 23 Nov 12
Charges have been filed against a man who ordered the sexual exploitation of Philippine children so he could watch the acts via webcam back in Sweden.
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Politics: 15 Nov 12
Sweden should extend the statute of limitations for child sex abuse crimes and make it easier to require criminal background checks on people who work with children, according to an inquiry submitted to the justice minister on Thursday.
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National: 30 Oct 12
A 27-year-old man from eastern Sweden was sentenced on Tuesday to three years in prison for child pornography crimes, after bullying 60 young girls into sending him nude images online.
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Lifestyle: 18 Oct 12
On the heels of the publication of a comprehensive study about Swedes and the internet, The Local offers up a slew of surprising facts revealing what Swedes do online.
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Science & Technology: 3 Oct 12
Nude pictures of more than 30 Swedish schoolgirls are circulating freely on the internet, sending shockwaves through a small community in eastern Sweden.
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National: 21 Sep 12
An Uppsala doctor is under investigation for child pornography crimes after being caught with thousands of images of naked children on his phone.
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Politics: 10 Sep 12
Rick Falkvinge, the founder Sweden's Pirate Party, has found himself in hot water after publishing a lengthy polemic calling for the legalization of child pornography.
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Science & Technology: 8 Sep 12
Thousands of Swedes have been paying faked fines for surfing on porn sites, depositing millions into fraudsters accounts, reported Swedish media on Saturday.
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National: 17 Aug 12
The legal procedures against a 26-year-old Swede, charged with exploiting nearly 60 young girls through a photo-sharing website, began in Uppsala, just north of Stockholm, on Thursday.
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National: 9 Aug 12
A 26-year-old man from Uppsala is being charged with child pornography crimes after being accused of talking some 60 young girls into posing naked on the internet.
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Lifestyle: 31 Jul 12
As Scandinavia’s biggest Pride festival kicks off in Stockholm, contributor Salomon Rogberg takes a look at some of the highlights of the week-long celebration.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jul 12
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court case which examined whether manga cartoon images constituted child pornography, Swedish journalist and columnist Ola Tedin ponders the morality of the court's ruling.
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National: 22 Jun 12
A 35-year-old Swedish man who is currently serving prison time for sexual offences against children has been charged with new offences involving children as young as one.
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National: 15 Jun 12
Japanese manga comics depicting children in sexual poses are not child pornography, Sweden's Supreme Court has ruled, overturning a high-profile conviction of a Swedish translator.
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Society: 16 May 12
The highly publicized appeal of a Swedish translator of Japanese manga comics convicted of child pornography crimes was brought up in Sweden’s Supreme Court on Wednesday, to an auditorium filled to the rafters.
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Society: 15 May 12
The Supreme Court will on Wednesday discuss a case concerning whether the Japanese manga images found on a man’s computer should be viewed as child porn, something a police expert strongly warns against.
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Business & Money: 8 May 12
Swedish porn mogul Berth Milton revealed on a show which airs on Swedish national TV on Tuesday evening how, despite having built up an international porn empire, the only thing he truly fears is women.
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National: 28 Apr 12
A 16-year-old Swedish boy has been sentenced to probation for internet sex crimes concerning seven girls aged 10 to 13-years-old.
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Society: 2 Apr 12
Swedish porn mogul Berth Milton is set to be the subject of a forthcoming feature film billed as a cross between "The Godfather" and "Boogie Nights" that will lift the lid on the smut business's dirty secrets.
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National: 29 Mar 12
A 76-year-old man has been convicted in Sweden for molesting three young girls in the Philippines when he was teaching English to poor children there.
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National: 23 Mar 12
Children in Sweden who suffer violence and sexual abuse aren't prioritized by social services according to a new report, which blames “ignorant” social service staff who are not able to pick up victims’ signals.
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National: 12 Mar 12
A 34-year-old man under suspicion of aggravated child porn offences after police confiscated 13,000 child porn images from his computer was never called to trial, as the court in southern Sweden forgot about him.
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National: 27 Feb 12
Many of Sweden's most dangerous convicts have access to illicit drugs, guns, and child pornography from inside the walls of psychiatric clinics where they are serving their sentences, newly released documents show.
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Science & Technology: 23 Feb 12
Thousands of porn surfers in Sweden may have been exposed after over one million passwords and email addresses from an online porn site have leaked out on the internet.
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Society: 22 Feb 12
Controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks was forced to dodge eggs thrown by angry audience members while giving a lecture about his Muhammad cartoons and free expression at the University of Karlstad on Tuesday.
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Society: 21 Feb 12
A pastor from central Sweden who uploaded “pornographic” pictures of himself and his girlfriend to an office computer will not be sacked over the incident.
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Sport: 19 Feb 12
Swedish supermodel Marcus Schenkenberg, a former Calvin Klein underwear model, was among 30 naked sledders who spent Saturday scooting down a snowy German mountainside with little to protect their bare skin from the elements.
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National: 8 Feb 12
A 38-year-old Swedish man has been charged with child pornography crimes after a probe in the United States uncovered thousands of images that were traced to the man's home in southern Sweden.
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National: 31 Jan 12
Police have raided 17 homes across Sweden on the suspicion of child pornography crimes, after an investigation into internet chat conversations held between the suspects and a man arrested by police last year.
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Science & Technology: 25 Jan 12
A man convicted for child pornography crimes and over seventy counts of child rape is believed to have smuggled a memory stick with child pornography into a Swedish psychiatric ward where he is serving time.
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National: 29 Dec 11
A formerly high-ranking local politician from western Sweden was among seven people convicted on Thursday in connection with the unmasking of a major prostitution ring in Halmstad.
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Society: 29 Dec 11
Sweden's Crown Princess Victoria and Queen Silvia have finally broken their silence about the past year's royal scandals in an open-hearted interview set for broadcast on Thursday.
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National: 27 Dec 11
A 45-year-old Swedish man whose computer contained more than half a million images of child pornography, including some featuring infants, has been jailed for five years for child pornography crimes and child rape.
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National: 15 Dec 11
A school teacher from southern Sweden was charged on Thursday after the investigation into a sex-themed text message he sent to a 13-year-old student revealed over 6 hours of child porn material on his computer.
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Science & Technology: 9 Dec 11
Sexual encounters on the internet are more than just porn surfing and those who frequent the sites aren't just passive victims or lonely loons, according to a new Swedish-American study.
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Politics: 8 Dec 11
The Riksdag voted to increase control of the Royal Court’s finances on Wednesday, against the wishes of the government parties.
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Society: 7 Dec 11
An advertisement for a health drink featuring a slang term for sexually desirable mothers does not discriminate against women, Sweden's advertising watchdog has ruled.
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Society: 7 Dec 11
Over a third of Swedes have lost faith in King Carl XVI Gustaf, while 32 percent would like to see Crown Princess Victoria take over, a new poll published on Wednesday shows.
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Society: 22 Nov 11
A high-ranking local politician from western Sweden, currently facing charges for buying sex, was found to have made thousands of visits to numerous pornographic websites from his office computer.
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National: 7 Nov 11
A new website set up by a Swede with ties to neo-Nazi groups and featuring the names and contact information of dozens of convicted child sex offenders has been reported for data privacy violations.
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National: 2 Nov 11
One call to social services was enough to land a Swedish couple behind bars and have their kids taken away for more than two months after an innocent situation was misinterpreted as sexual abuse.
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National: 24 Oct 11
A 34-year-old man and two 16-year-old boys from central Sweden were charged with child rape on Friday, after the man had paid the two boys to rape a young girl and film the incident.
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National: 19 Oct 11
Twelwe people were arrested in Sweden early on Wednesday morning suspected of spreading child pornography, according to the Swedish National Bureau of Investigation.
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National: 18 Oct 11
All 23 women on trial for possessing and distributing child pornography were convicted by a Swedish court on Tuesday, along with a 43-year-old man believed to be the mastermind behind the network.
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National: 17 Oct 11
A man and a woman suspected of raping their three daughters have been released after a Swedish court ruled that testimony offered by their 11-year-old daughter could have stemmed from something she'd seen in a porn film.
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Society: 16 Oct 11
Swedish chocolate maker Marabou's thriving Facebook community was shut down after being hit by a sabotaging spammer who uploaded pornographic images to the page.
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Lifestyle: 13 Oct 11
Sweden is home to hundreds of castles featuring tales of bloodthirsty royals, quirky millionaires, adult-rated films, and other untold secrets. Check out The Local's selection of some of the country's more memorable manors.
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National: 8 Oct 11
For the fifth time, Sweden has been criticised by the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child for not having introduced their children's rights convention as Swedish law.
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National: 13 Sep 11
On Tuesday the trial against 24 people for possessing and distributing child pornography opened in Sweden, in a case that has drawn widespread attention as all but one of the defendants are women.
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Business & Money: 25 Aug 11
Sweden's powerful Wallenberg family has been left out of pocket following the premature collapse of Italian sport and pornography television channel Dahlia TV.
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Society: 17 Aug 11
The news of Crown Princess Victoria's pregnancy couldn't come at a better time for a Swedish Royal Family looking to turn the page on a tumultuous year, according to one royal expert.
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National: 13 Aug 11
A 34 year-old man from Gävle, in eastern Sweden, was arrested on Friday afternoon on suspicion of four cases of child rape, which he has also filmed, according to reports in Swedish media.
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National: 4 Aug 11
Two Swedish suspects have been identified as part of a major global paedophile ring spanning 14 countries which has been exposed by the US police.
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National: 1 Aug 11
A 27-year-old man has been sentenced to psychiatric care after having been convicted for raping three young children, filming the attacks and publishing the material on the internet.
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National: 22 Jul 11
A year after the introduction of a new law in Sweden banning the viewing of child porn, not a single charge has been filed with police admitting that they can't actively look for transgressors, according to a report in Swedish media.
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Education: 23 Jun 11
A Swedish court has ruled that a school was unjustified in sacking its principal after he joined a number of sexually themed groups on Facebook and published half-naked pictures of himself on the popular social networking site.
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Analysis & Opinion: 17 Jun 11
One year after the royal wedding of Crown Princess Victoria, Sweden's royal family finds itself mired in crisis. The Local's Clara Guibourg examines why the wedding glow faded so fast and what it means for the monarchy's future.
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National: 15 Jun 11
A 24-year-old man considered to be Sweden's worst serial rapist was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Wednesday for attacking 14 women in the central Swedish town of Örebro.
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Society: 14 Jun 11
A sign featuring a naked baby picture of a graduating student in southern Sweden so offended a bystander that it was reported to authorities for violating Sweden's laws prohibiting child pornography.
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National: 12 Jun 11
A 67-year-old Swedish man was charged with a score of child sex allegations in disaster-struck Haiti where he worked under the guise of an organization that purports to help street children.
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Lifestyle: 1 Jun 11
The denials offered by King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden in an interview on Monday night have much of the country talking about the future of the King and the monarchy. See and read the interview and form your own opinion.
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National: 1 Jun 11
Ex-porn club owner and reputed gangster Mille Markovic said on Tuesday he plans to publish compromising pictures of Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf, while demands for a truth commission to look into the King's alleged actions remain.
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Analysis & Opinion: 31 May 11
Following King Carl XVI Gustaf's denials that he visited strip clubs or had contacts with the criminal underworld, The Local takes a look at some of the events that marked the Swedish monarch's tumultuous last twelve months.
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National: 20 May 11
A Swedish prosecutor on Friday indicted 23 women and one man for possessing and distributing child pornography, in a case that has drawn widespread attention because so many of the defendants are women.
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Society: 20 May 11
The media storm surrounding the special edition of children’s cartoon Bamse, aimed at helping asylum seeking children, could have ‘xenophobic undercurrents’, according to controversial artist Lars Vilks.
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National: 16 May 11
The diocese of Lund is in contravention of official church policy by investing in companies that make money through distributing porn, despite very clear guidelines from the Church of Sweden on the issue.
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National: 13 May 11
The two Swedish IT-experts jailed for life in the Philippines for running a cybersex den say they are living a nightmare among hardened criminals and maintain that they have done nothing wrong.
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National: 11 May 11
A Swedish doctor who was found to possess 300 films and 250,000 images containing child pornography is set to go free after the drawn out investigation into his crimes exceeded the statute of limitations.
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Lifestyle: 15 Apr 11
While the National Museum's new "Lust & Vice" exhibition has titillated the viewing public, it has incurred the scorn of an art world used to seeing sex exploited for financial gain, The Local's Peter Vinthagen Simpson writes.
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National: 13 Apr 11
The 23-year-old accused of murdering Elin Krantz in September last year was found guilty on Wednesday by the Gothenburg District Court.
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National: 13 Apr 11
The Swedish government and responsible authorities ‘ignore’ child sex tourism offences, according to child rights organisation Ecpat.
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Society: 6 Apr 11
Convicted paedophiles and sex offenders at a secure clinic in Växsjö in southern Sweden will regain internet access after a ban instigated in 2008 has been deemed illegitimate.
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Politics: 5 Apr 11
A Sweden Democrat politician in Mönsterås in south-eastern Sweden published police photos of a raped and murdered 27-year-old woman in a blog post which used the words "negro rape".
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Education: 4 Apr 11
A principal at a middle school in south central Sweden has admitted to secretly installing a surveillance camera after it was discovered by a group of students.
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National: 31 Mar 11
Confidential police photographs of a woman who was raped and murdered in Gothenburg last year have been leaked onto a pornographic website, according to a local media report.
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Business & Money: 30 Mar 11
An image of two naked men in an autumnal Scandinavian wood was erased from Swedish underwear giant Björn Borg's Facebook page after being deemed 'pornographic'.
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Society: 23 Mar 11
A painting by Anders Zorn, one of Sweden's most prized painters, has fallen foul of Facebook's zero tolerance policy for its depiction of a naked woman in a loft.
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National: 22 Mar 11
Sweden’s babysitting industry is booming, but there are currently no safeguards as to who can tout their trade on the internet leaving children exposed to exploitation.
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National: 17 Mar 11
The trial of a 24-year-old suspect charged with 14 sex offences in Sweden's to date largest serial rape case opened on Thursday in Örebro district court.
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Science & Technology: 12 Mar 11
A prank email referencing a unicorn and a leprechaun sent by a Swedish file-sharer prompted a US-based gay porn film studio to file a subpoena for the man's email address.
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National: 7 Mar 11
A 24-year-old man from Örebro in central Sweden suspected of attacking 15 women would become the worst serial rapist in Swedish criminal history if convicted of charges filed against him on Monday.
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National: 4 Mar 11
A Swedish woman was arrested on child pornography suspicions after she filmed her two young children taking a bath in an effort to prove they had been sexually abused by their father.
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