March 16, 2010
Pornographic
The following articles have been tagged with "Pornographic":
Cop forgets child porn in laundry room
National: 15 Feb 10
A Swedish police officer is facing disciplinary action after a neighbour found child pornography on a memory stick the policeman had neglected to remove from a trouser pocket.
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Bank gives porn site link to Swedish school kids
Society: 18 Dec 09
A Swedish bank inadvertently published a link to a porn site in a magazine distributed to hundreds of thousands of Swedish school children.
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Sweden to tighten child pornography laws
Politics: 2 Nov 09
Sweden's government is meeting on Monday to bring forward new legislation that will prohibit the viewing of child pornography and will establish strict age limit guidelines.
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Two Swedes convicted for selling illegal porn
National: 15 Oct 09
Two porn peddlers from northwestern Sweden have been convicted for selling pornographic films with exceedingly violent content.
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Masturbating trucker charged with reckless driving
National: 9 Oct 09
A German truck driver who was busy playing with his joystick when he flipped his rig in western Sweden in September, has been charged with reckless driving and assault.
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Google admits mistake in blocking Pirate Bay
Science & Technology: 4 Oct 09
US search engine giant Google has admitted that an internal error was behind the blocking of Swedish file-sharing site The Pirate Bay on Friday.
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Parish councillor jailed for raping grandchildren
National: 1 Oct 09
A Church of Sweden parish councillor from Stockholm has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for the repeated rape of his grandchildren.
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Publicly funded ‘feminist porn’ to premiere
Society: 1 Sep 09
'Feminist porn' movie Dirty Diaries, which received 500,000 kronor ($69,000) in public funding, is to premiere this Thursday in Stockholm.
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Thief surfs for porn and bemoans poor hygiene
National: 26 Aug 09
A thief in southern Sweden took time off during a weekend break-in to surf pornographic websites on a company computer and leave a note complaining about unsatisfactory hygiene standards.
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Swedish strip club continues McDonald's-inspired expansion
Society: 9 Jul 09
Having settled a logo dispute with McDonald’s, an enterprising Swedish strip club owner is courting new controversy as he attempts to build an empire echoing that of the fast food giant.
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CEO gives board members a pornographic surprise
Society: 1 Jul 09
The CEO of a municipal housing company in Dalarna in central Sweden has been reprimanded after pornographic pictures popped up during a recent presentation to the company’s board.
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Headmaster fired after Facebook pic scandal
Society: 18 Jun 09
A high school principal who used Facebook to air his zest for sex has been forced to resign from his post.
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Sweden closer to banning film censorship
Society: 9 Jun 09
After nearly 100 years, Sweden may finally be poised to shutter the agency charged with censoring films deemed unsuitable for adult audiences.
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Porn scandal shakes Swedish airport agency
National: 6 May 09
Sweden’s airport authority is reeling after an investigation into computer network problems revealed that several employees were surfing pornographic websites while on the job.
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Swedish national library reported for child porn
Society: 6 Apr 09
The Swedish national library will on Monday afternoon be reported to the police for the possession and distribution of child pornography.
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Cop fined for outing child sex offender
National: 26 Mar 09
A Swedish police officer who blew the whistle on a convicted paedophile’s plans to start a youth education centre has himself been fined for defamation.
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Art exhibitions you mustn't miss
Lifestyle: 20 Mar 09
From the Pre-Raphaelites to the Danish surrealists, art critic Katarina Wadstein MacLeod samples the season's most eye-catching exhibitions in Sweden and Denmark.
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Swedish national library in child porn scandal
Society: 21 Jan 09
Sweden’s legacy of lax attitudes toward pornography has come back to haunt the country’s national library, which has been found to have large quantities of child pornography in its collection.
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Queen Silvia demands child porn ban
National: 1 Nov 08
Queen Silvia wants to see current legislation to combat child pornography expanded. The queen has called for Sweden to follow neighbouring Denmark and Norway and make it illegal to look at child pornography.
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Porn-surfing clergyman downs church network
Society: 20 Oct 08
A church minister from Strängnäs in central Sweden has resigned from his post after his porn-surfing habits led to the spread of a virus that knocked out the local church network.
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Emelie, 18, wins phone battle over sex texts
Society: 17 Oct 08
A young woman from Borås in western Sweden has won a battle to avoid paying for pornographic text messages erroneously charged to her mobile phone account.
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Stockholm weekend going out guide: Saturday, Oct 4
Lifestyle: 30 Sep 08
The Local teams up with Djungeltrumman to help point you in the right direction if you're planning a night out in Stockholm this Saturday.
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Swedish man fined for putting nude pics of wife on porn site
Society: 9 Sep 08
A 40-year-old man from Medelpad in northern Sweden has been convicted for gross slander for secretly putting nude photos of his wife on pornographic websites.
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Rapist refused damages for porn rights slight
National: 8 Aug 08
A convicted rapist has been refused compensation for an alleged rights violation when he was denied access to pornography in his cell.
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Petrol station owner fights for porn-free town
National: 30 Jun 08
A trade union dispute over pornographic material has taken a curious new twist.
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Union to picket petrol station over porn
National: 26 Jun 08
A branch of the Syndicalist trade union has threatened strike action at a petrol station in northern Sweden if managers refuses to remove pornographic material from the shelves.
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Children concerned by parents' web habits
Society: 25 Jun 08
Children in Sweden are becoming increasingly concerned by their parents' internet habits, according to a new report.
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Policeman docked wages for porn actress slight
National: 27 May 08
A police officer in northern Sweden has been docked five days' wages after a former porn actress reported him for harassment.
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Teen fined for online porn pic
Society: 23 May 08
A 15-year-old boy has been fined for posting a pornographic picture on a social networking page belonging to his former girlfriend without her consent.
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Police seize pornographic advertising
National: 22 Mar 08
Police have seized pornographic pictures distributed by a car-care company at a motor show in Jönköping.
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Ferry line denies lesbian discrimination claims
Society: 14 Mar 08
Ferry company Viking Lines has strongly denied charges of discrimination after a 26-year-old woman claimed she was asked to stop kissing another woman during a Baltic cruise.
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University slammed for suspending porn pic student
Society: 13 Mar 08
Staff at Gothenburg University have been heavily criticized by education officials for their decision to suspend a female psychology student who posed for pictures in a pornographic magazine.
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Pirate Bay team in fresh internet controversy
Science & Technology: 21 Feb 08
Pirate Bay founders Fredrik Neij (l) and Gottfrid Svartholm-Warg (r) are lending their skills to Wikileaks, a controversial website dedicated to publishing confidential information on the internet.
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Swedish firms’ ads on internet piracy site
National: 13 Feb 08
The companies were unaware that their ads were appearing on a site popular in the illegal file sharing community.
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85-year-old on trial for distributing illegal porn
National: 12 Feb 08
The films contained pornographic content that Swedish film censors considered too violent.
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Movie review: The King of Ping Pong
Lifestyle: 12 Feb 08
René Rice is impressed by Swedish director Jens Jonsson's feature film debut.
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60-year-old man jailed for child porn
National: 28 Dec 07
A 60-year-old man has been sentenced to prison for child porn offences. The man was found with thousands of pictures and films on his computer.
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Agency calls for ceasefire in hacking war
Society: 24 Oct 07
With Turkish hackers resuming their attacks on Swedish websites this week, Sweden's IT security agency is urging domestic hackers to keep their cool.
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Police worker ran brothel from apartment
National: 22 Oct 07
An IT expert who resigned last week from the Swedish Police Service is suspected of having used his home as a brothel.
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Sex exhibition defies vandals
Society: 20 Oct 07
A controversial art exhibition is to reopen in Lund despite most of the works' being vandalized at the beginning of the month.
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Swedish hackers target Turkish forum
Science & Technology: 16 Oct 07
Swedish hackers have retaliated against their Turkish counterparts following an attack earlier this month on some 5,000 Swedish websites.
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Google blocks 'pornographic' video of art attack
Society: 10 Oct 07
Search engine giant Google has blocked access to video footage of four masked men who vandalized the photo exhibition 'A history of sex' at an art gallery in Lund on Friday. The company said the video contained "too much porn".
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Pirate Bay kept 'child porn' link for two weeks
Science & Technology: 29 Aug 07
Swedish prosecutors have launched an investigation into suspected child pornography made available via website The Pirate Bay. Administrators allowed the images to remain available for nearly two weeks, but they are not suspects in the case.
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No sex please, we're Swedish, underwear firm told
Society: 28 Aug 07
A competition launched by German underwear maker Sloggi to uncover the world's most beautiful bottoms has been slapped down in Sweden after media protests against the supposedly pornographic event.
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Porn ban for sex offenders
Society: 28 Aug 07
Prisoners convicted for sex offences are to be banned from receiving pornographic magazines, according to a new government proposal.
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Film censor steps down in protest
Politics: 23 Aug 07
Gunnel Arrbäck, Sweden's top film censor for the last 26 years, has decided to step down from her post after her calls for an end to film censorship for adults fell on deaf ears.
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Prisons 'must be allowed to ban porn'
Society: 2 Aug 07
The governors of three Swedish prisons have expressed concern after the Supreme Administrative Court allowed a convicted rapist to keep pornographic magazines in his cell.
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Prison porn for rapists approved by court
Society: 25 Jun 07
Sweden's convicted rapists are entitled to have pornography in their cells, the Supreme Administrative Court has judged.
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Women 'try to set fire to porn shop'
Society: 20 Jun 07
Two young women have been arrested on suspicion of trying to set fire to a pornographic video shop in Malmö. It's not yet clear whether they had a political motive.
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Police uncover child pornography ring
National: 19 Jun 07
Swedish police brought in eight people for questioning on Tuesday in connection with their suspected involvement in a child pornography ring.
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HIV man 'kept catalogue of sex with teens'
Society: 10 Jun 07
The HIV-positive British man charged with having sex with scores of underage girls kept a careful list of his victims, cataloguing their ages, addresses and even their leisure interests and boyfriends, it has been reported.
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Thousands of schoolkids sent pornographic pictures
Society: 6 Jun 07
Up to 11,000 pupils in Lund received pornographic pictures in their email last week. The pictures were sent out by another student and remained on the local authority's servers for several days.
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Student berated for nude pics
Society: 14 May 07
Gothenburg University has been reported to the Justice Ombudsman after staff castigated a student who posed for a pornographic magazine.
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Porn priest paid off by Swedish Church
Society: 10 Feb 07
A priest who was defrocked after apparently surfing pornographic web sites on church time has been paid an undisclosed sum by the Swedish Church.
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'Ban porn from prisons' call
Society: 27 Nov 06
Pornographic magazines should be banned from Sweden's prisons and remand centres, the prison service says. The reason: it is insulting for female prison officers.
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Ice hockey referee raped boy
National: 17 Nov 06
An ice hockey referee in Stockholm has been jailed for the rape and sexual assault of a teenage boy. The man met the boy at a hockey training session.
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Father 'filmed mother abusing daughter'
National: 8 Nov 06
A mother sexually abused her daughter while the girl's father filmed, a court in Malmö has heard. Both the mother and the father deny the accusations against them.
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Porn pics 'endangered military security'
Society: 28 Sep 06
A senior Swedish officer has been accused of risking national security after hard-core porn was found in his possession. Major General Tony Stigsson made himself vulnerable to blackmail, it is alleged.
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Tiger's fury over bogus Elin porn pics
National: 20 Sep 06
Tiger Woods has voiced his fury after an Irish magazine published bogus topless photos of his Swedish wife Elin. "It is hard not to get emotional about this," the golfer says.
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Porn for prisoners: Supreme Court gets involved
Society: 19 Jun 06
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court will decide whether a convicted rapist has a right to receive pornographic magazines, despite claims that it would hamper his rehabilitation.
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Worry over young Swedes' sex habits
Society: 17 May 06
Young Swedes are more likely to have group sex, more likely to be promiscuous and more likely to be sexually harassed than previous generations, according to a new report.
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Protagonist or puritan? The truth about Sweden and porn
Lifestyle: 13 May 06
Sweden’s reputation as the first country of filth is one of those lingering stereotypes. Like high taxes. But whilst there’s no denying the latter, what truth really is there in the triple X typecast? The Local’s Christine Demsteader investigates.
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Swedish Prison Service seeks porn ban
Society: 29 Apr 06
The Swedish Prison Service is appealing against a ruling that would allow a convicted rapist to receive pornography in jail.
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Porn priest picks up 800,000 kronor
National: 30 Dec 05
A priest who was forced to leave his job after being caught surfing on the internet for porn using the parish computer will receive 800,000 kronor in severance pay, a church committee has decided.
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Drama student to appeal 'porn novel' verdict
Smörgåsbord: 22 Dec 05
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Drama student fined after school sex project
Society: 30 Nov 05
A 32 year old drama student who read pornographic stories to a group of six year olds in a project has been found guilty of sexual abuse. But the head of a Swedish sex education organisation says the case "has been blown out of proportion".
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Stop internet grooming - Bodström
Politics: 1 Nov 05
New laws are needed to stop internet grooming of children, says Justice Minister Thomas Bodström. He also wants to crack down on child pornography, he tells the Social Democrat conference in Malmö.
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Student prosecuted for reading porn to kids
National: 5 Oct 05
A student at Sweden's Dramatic Institute who read a pornographic novel to a group of six year olds has been charged with sexual harassment. "Indecent and offensive," says the prosecutor.
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Paedophile "spread child porn from clinic"
National: 5 Sep 05
A man who has previously been found guilty of various serious sex offences, including rape and child abuse, is suspected of committing further crimes during his time as a patient at a Växjö psychiatric clinic.
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Local council subsidised porn company
National: 1 Sep 05
A German IT company was awarded hundreds of thousands of kronor in subsidies when it set up in the county of Bjurholm - but that was before the council knew they were peddling online porn.
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Porn-free hotels draw in more Swedes
Society: 15 Jun 05
Hotel guests who want to be sure not to stumble over porn on their bedroom television can now choose a 'porn-free' establishment from a catalogue released this week.
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Drama school sex project broke education rules
Society: 3 Jun 05
The National Agency for Higher Education delivers its report on the "school porn scandal" which erupted in January this year and its criticism of Dramatiska Institutet is damning. The arts project even broke the UN's convention on the rights of the child.
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New rules for adding comments on The Local
National: 22 Apr 05
For such a humble, reserved nation Sweden certainly does provoke a lot of discussion, at least within these pages. So we've had to polish up our conditions of use. Please take note!
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No more hotel porn for Swedish government officials
Society: 6 Apr 05
Swedish civil servants and politicians will no longer be able to stay at hotels that offer pornographic channels as a government agency blacklists accommodation with x-rated viewing options.
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Swedish drama college rapped for school porn scandal
National: 24 Mar 05
An investigation into why 6 year old children were read explicit passages from a pornographic novel on a school trip to Dramatiska Institutet gives the college a good telling-off but concludes that "the reaction of the parents is the true risk of injury".
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Ex-party leader to investigate school porn scandal
Society: 9 Feb 05
Dramatiska Institutet fails to calm things down by meeting the parents of children who were read explicit passages from a pornographic novel on a school trip, while the student author is forced into hiding.
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6 year olds exposed to pornography in school project
National: 3 Feb 05
Schoolchildren visiting Dramatiska Institutet are read explicit passages from a pornographic novel as part of a project called "Love and Sexuality". Everyone is shocked, but that doesn't stop the media reprinting great chunks of the material in question.
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Priest and judge admit child sex offences
National: 28 Oct 04
Ruined careers and ruined lives as a Malmö priest pays the price for revealing his sexual fantasies to '14 year old girls' on an internet chat room. And a Borås judge is first blackmailed and then charged for possessing pornographic images on his computer.
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Anna Lindh "slandered" on the internet
Smörgåsbord: 8 Sep 04
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Another police murder leaves Sweden feeling uneasy
National: 6 Aug 04
An off-duty policeman is murdered in Dalarna, allegedly by a man enjoying the benefits of Sweden's relaxed 'criminal care' system.
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DNA nails killer - probably
National: 2 Jul 04
New technology fights old crime. Police hunting a child murderer in the south of Sweden believe they've finally got their man - after fifteen years.
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Smörgåsbord
Smörgåsbord: 24 Jun 04
Church porn, cyclists without wheels, a crime-fighting kindergarten and an innovative safety measure on SAS flights. Midsummer madness from the week's papers.
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Police caught in child porn bust
National: 28 May 04
Paedophilia, corruption, weapons and drugs smuggling - you just can't trust the police these days.
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