February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Prison":
National: 14 Feb 12
A man held in custody in Gothenburg, in western Sweden, has reported the detention centre to authorities after it took two hours for toilet paper to be delivered to his cell.
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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: 2 Feb 12
Sweden's efforts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to face sex crimes accusations is not a breach of his human rights, lawyers told the UK Supreme Court on Thursday.
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Business & Money: 1 Feb 12
The Swedish Supreme Court will not grant the right to appeal in the Pirate Bay case, the court announced on Wednesday, marking the end of the four defendants' legal battle in Sweden.
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Society: 1 Feb 12
A 31-year-old woman who is serving a life sentence for murder in a Swedish prison has demanded that she be allowed to take a holiday.
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Society: 30 Jan 12
A woman who allegedly threw a small dog from the balcony of an apartment at the tail end of a party in Gothenburg in western Sweden was arrested on Sunday morning.
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Society: 28 Jan 12
Exorcism was the motivation for repeated attacks against a 14 year-old girl from western Sweden who was regularly beaten and burned by her father and stepmother, who wanted to rid the girl of “evil spirits”, prosecutors allege.
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Science & Technology: 26 Jan 12
A mentally ill man who had been screaming for more than an hour was discovered tied down in his own bed with a sheet at a Carema-run nursing home in Stockholm earlier this month.
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National: 26 Jan 12
A man who used Facebook and other social media media websites to come in contact with Swedish teen girls, was sentenced to six-years in prison on Wednesday for a series of sex attacks.
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National: 25 Jan 12
A 20-year-old man from Malmö in southern Sweden was sentenced to eight months in prison on Wednesday for not telling eight women that he was infected with HIV before having sex with them.
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Society: 24 Jan 12
A youth hostel caught fire on Tuesday in central Stockholm after staff attempted to delouse mattresses by stowing them in a sauna and turning up the heat.
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Science & Technology: 23 Jan 12
Police in northern Sweden recently received a tip-off from Interpol in the UK about a Swedish resident suspected of snatching rare bird’s eggs and nests to sell to collectors worldwide.
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National: 21 Jan 12
A Serbian man was jailed for life by a Swedish court on Friday in connection with his role in a massacre in the village of Cuska in Kosovo in 1999, in which 40 people were killed.
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Society: 21 Jan 12
Forcing someone into marriage against their will could soon carry a punishment of up to two years imprisonment, according to an inquiry tasked with formulating a law criminalizing the practice under Swedish law.
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National: 20 Jan 12
Three men accused of plotting to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks were acquitted of the charges in Gothenburg on Friday, but were nevertheless convicted for weapons violations.
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Business & Money: 20 Jan 12
A former Swedish night club owner held in the United States on suspicion of supplying weapons to Colombian guerrillas in exchange for cocaine, pleaded guilty on Tuesday in a US court.
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Society: 20 Jan 12
Swedish police are disappointed after a government proposal suggesting a tightening of legislation still failed to grant police the ability to wire tap suspects in cases of less serious weapons crimes.
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Society: 19 Jan 12
A bare-legged ex-convict walked out of a Swedish prison without any pants or shoes on Tuesday after being denied extra money to buy new clothes.
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National: 18 Jan 12
The 22-year-old animal rights activist suspected of arson and of writing threatening letters, sometimes in his own blood, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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National: 17 Jan 12
Sweden was aware that Soviet secret police were obstructing an investigation into the fate of Swedish Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, researchers claim, citing a newly discovered document.
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National: 16 Jan 12
A 38-year-old Norwegian woman and her 9-month-old baby were found dead on Monday in an apartment in Arboga in central Sweden. It remains unclear if they died due to an accident or foul play.
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National: 10 Jan 12
Two Swedish reporters, sentenced to prison by an Ethiopian court in December, have chosen not to appeal their guilty verdict and instead pin their hopes of being released on the country's "tradition of pardon".
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National: 10 Jan 12
A 21-year-old woman from Gothenburg in western Sweden who had accused her brother of threatening to take her life in an “honour killing", retracted her allegations on the opening day of the trial on Monday.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
While there are fewer people sleeping rough in Sweden today, the total number of people not qualifying on the ordinary housing market is rising, with those born outside of Sweden overrepresented among the homeless, a new study shows.
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Society: 10 Jan 12
A Swedish man sentenced to prison for abusing his wife through having her “exorcised” of evil spirits, has had his conviction thrown out on appeal.
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National: 8 Jan 12
Being a member of a criminal gang in Sweden can actually result in milder sentences for weapons offences as courts provide leniency in cases in which offenders have been shown to live in a hostile environment and need extra protection.
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National: 7 Jan 12
A 30-year-old man from western Sweden has been sentenced to prison after he stripped down naked and assaulted passengers on a train in November, while under the influence of drugs.
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National: 5 Jan 12
Police officers who investigated a doctor accused of the manslaughter of a baby at a Stockholm hospital last year are now themselves facing a criminal probe for misconduct.
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Society: 5 Jan 12
A Swedish couple was recently convicted of animal cruelty and forced to pay after keeping a large number of neglected cats in their Stockholm house.
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National: 5 Jan 12
A 29-year-old man has been jailed for twelve years for killing a teenager on a football pitch in Stockholm last July in an unprovoked attack.
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National: 4 Jan 12
Sweden's minister for justice, Beatrice Ask, says Swedish weapons laws will be looked over, after recent events in Malmö where five people have been shot within the space of a month.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Christine Schürrer, the German woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering a 3-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister in 2008, is now applying for leave to appeal her verdict to the Supreme Court.
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National: 3 Jan 12
Police on Tuesday arrested a couple in their twenties on suspicion of kidnapping a 25-year-old man who went missing from his home in Uppsala in December.
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Analysis & Opinion: 2 Jan 12
The Swedish government has announced that it will designate 2012 as the official "Raoul Wallenberg Year" and the honour is more than deserved, according to historian Susanne Berger.
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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.
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National: 30 Dec 11
A 30-year-old mother who admitted to killing her young sons in September in Sigtuna, north of Stockholm, has been found mentally ill after undergoing a forensic psychiatric evaluation.
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Business & Money: 30 Dec 11
Up to half a million Swedes who have illegally downloaded as few as ten movies could be be charged with crimes punishable by time in prison, according to precedents set by prosecutors in recent filesharing cases.
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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.
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National: 29 Dec 11
A Swedish police commissioner has been suspended after it was revealed that he had secretly filmed female officers in the nude with a video camera hidden inside a locker in the station's changing room.
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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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National: 28 Dec 11
The three men accused of planning to murder controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks in a foiled attack in Gothenburg on September were released on Wednesday shortly after the conclusion of their trial.
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Business & Money: 28 Dec 11
A couple from northern Sweden who fled the country after being convicted for swindling unknowing Swedes into funding fictional projects in Thailand have been arrested in Vietnam.
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National: 27 Dec 11
Sweden has turned to the United States and the EU for assistance in gaining the release of journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, who were sentenced on Tuesday to 11 years in prison by an Ethiopian court.
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National: 27 Dec 11
Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson were sentenced to 11 years in prison on Tuesday by an Ethiopian court for supporting terrorism and entering the country illegally.
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National: 27 Dec 11
Genocide charges were filed on Monday against a 53-year-old man arrested last week at Stockholm's Bromma airport on suspicions of having taken part in the massacres in Rwanda in 1994.
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National: 25 Dec 11
The number of bank robberies has declined sharply in Sweden over the past year, according to fresh figures from the police.
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National: 24 Dec 11
Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt has promised to meet the relatives of journalists Johan Persson and Martin Schibbye following their conviction on terror charges in Ethiopia.
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National: 24 Dec 11
A man accused of kicking his mother-in-law to death was acquitted on a murder charge by a Swedish court on Friday, but found guilty of aggravated assault and involuntary manslaughter.
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National: 23 Dec 11
Swedish police have arrested a man suspected of participating in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. He was arrested late Thursday evening at Bromma airport, just outside Stockholm.
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National: 22 Dec 11
A 24-year-old prisoner from Hall, one of Sweden's maximum-security prisons, fled whilst on temporary leave in Stockholm on Thursday morning and remains at large.
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Analysis & Opinion: 22 Dec 11
Swedish investigative journalist Leo Lagercrantz takes a closer look at the Lundin Group and Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt's involvement with it after two Swedish journalists were found guilty of terror crimes in Ethiopia while reportedly investigating the company.
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National: 21 Dec 11
A 22-year-old man from southern Stockholm got 15 months in prison on Wednesday for ”sadistically” torturing a puppy to death, a sentence that may well be the longest ever in an animal cruelty case in Sweden.
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National: 21 Dec 11
Prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt called for Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson, who were convicted in Ethiopia on Wednesday of supporting a terrorist group, to be set free.
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National: 21 Dec 11
Swedish journalists Martin Schibbye and Johan Persson were found guilty of supporting a terrorist group by an Ethiopian court on Wednesday, in a ruling which Swedish foreign minister Carl Bildt said was cause for "grave concern".
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National: 19 Dec 11
When two human rights organizations asked 28 countries for information in order to map out CIAs secret air transports of terror suspects, Sweden was one of three countries refusing to give out any details.
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National: 16 Dec 11
The UK's highest court on Friday granted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to appeal his extradition from Britain to Sweden to face rape allegations, with the hearing set to start on February 1st.
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National: 16 Dec 11
The 28-year-old inmate who beat a female prison guard to death at a remand centre south of Stockhlom in October was sentenced to life in prison on Friday.
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National: 16 Dec 11
A man from Uppsala, north of Stockholm, has been convicted by the district court for encouraging girls as young as 8-years-old to strip on the internet.
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National: 15 Dec 11
Sweden's legal system is plagued by serious shortcomings, according to a new report, which argues that a lack of coordination and “weak” government management are to blame.
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National: 15 Dec 11
A 46-year-old Swedish father who forced his young daughter to pretend she had a mental illness so he could cash in on assistance benefits was sentenced to four years in prison on Thursday.
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Society: 14 Dec 11
Sara Svensson, the nanny convicted of killing the wife of a pastor with whom she was having an affair, in the village of Knutby, eastern Sweden, in 2004, has been ordered released from institutional psychiatric care.
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Society: 14 Dec 11
A lawyer for British businessman Shrien Dewani, accused of killing his Swedish wife during their honeymoon in Cape Town, told a UK court on Tuesday her client's life could be at risk if he is extradited to South Africa.
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National: 13 Dec 11
A 41-year-old man previously convicted of murder was on Tuesday sentenced to four years in prison for raping a 12-year-old girl in a stairwell in Stockholm in July.
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National: 10 Dec 11
A man in southern Sweden who scammed the Swedish social insurance agency for almost 14 million kronor ($2 million) has been sentenced to four years in prison.
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National: 10 Dec 11
Police from Gävleborg in eastern Sweden "deserve serious criticism" for deporting a man to the wrong country in October of last year, the Ombudsman for Justice has ruled.
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Society: 6 Dec 11
Sweden’s first veiled police recruit, Donna Eljammal, does not regard her traditional Muslim hijab as a hindrance but rather an asset for her future career within the Swedish police force.
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Science & Technology: 6 Dec 11
A man has been charged with raping a child after he submitted to a test for chlamydia and one of his declared sex partners turned out to be a minor.
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National: 5 Dec 11
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been cleared to apply to the UK Supreme Court in an attempt to block his extradition to Sweden over rape allegations, a London court ruled on Monday.
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National: 5 Dec 11
More evidence presented against the two Swedish journalists on trial in Ethiopia has been faked, according to their defense lawyer, who said that his two clients didn’t know the guerrilla soldiers charged alongside them.
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National: 2 Dec 11
Prosecutors are demanding life for the 28-year-old who killed a female guard at Flemingsberg remand facility south of Stockholm. The accused has admitted to his crimes, but wants a fixed sentence.
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National: 1 Dec 11
A Finnish man, previously convicted of murdering three people in northern Sweden in 1988, has been arrested in Helsinki following his escape from a prison in Finland last week.
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National: 1 Dec 11
A 53-year-old police officer in Stockholm has been sentenced to a year in prison after having been convicted of raping and buying sex from a minor.
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National: 30 Nov 11
A 58-year-old man in western Sweden has been sentenced to nine years in prison after attempting to blow up the husband of his mistress.
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National: 29 Nov 11
A 44-year-old woman in central Sweden has been sentenced to 16 years in prison for murder, after the district court judged her guilty of shooting her husband from behind with a hunting rifle.
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Science & Technology: 29 Nov 11
Some 46 percent of Swedes are uncertain whether they have drunk too much when they get behind the wheel, according to a new survey.
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National: 25 Nov 11
Despite being caught with enough home-grown cannabis to warrant a prison sentence, a man in western Sweden escaped with probation and a 500 kronor ($75) fine because the drugs were of such poor quality.
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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.
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Business & Money: 24 Nov 11
The manager of an Ikea store in Germany, who had Facebook friends belonging to a neo-Nazi political party, has been dismissed for posting offensive opinions on the social networking site.
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National: 23 Nov 11
A 65-year-old female guard was badly beaten by a prisoner at a south Stockholm detention centre on Wednesday morning.
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National: 23 Nov 11
A Finnish man, previously convicted of murdering three people in northern Sweden in 1988, escaped from a prison in Finland on Wednesday morning where he was serving time for drunk driving.
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National: 22 Nov 11
Sweden's foreign minister Carl Bildt is to travel to Ukraine in a bid to apply "football diplomacy" to secure the release of opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko.
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National: 21 Nov 11
Two young girls were left locked in a toilet while burglars raided their home in Gothenburg on Monday morning.
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National: 16 Nov 11
Charges were filed against 17 men on Wednesday in relation to the July 2010 killing of young Assyriska FF footballer Eddie Moussa and his brother, in what prosecutors believe was a settling of scores between rival gangs.
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National: 16 Nov 11
A prison guard at a prison in Norrtälje north of Stockholm was shot, then beaten and kicked by an unknown man during a walk on Tuesday evening.
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National: 16 Nov 11
Swedish police were given orders to deport a man to Iran, but instead sent him to Iraq, where he now risks 15 years in prison for claiming to be a citizen in the country.
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National: 16 Nov 11
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday applied to Britain's Supreme Court to hear his appeal against extradition to Sweden to answer questions over rape allegations.
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Politics: 15 Nov 11
It should be easier for Swedes with dual citizenship to be extradited to states outside the European Union, a government inquiry charged with reviewing Sweden's extradition law has concluded.
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National: 14 Nov 11
A Swedish man serving a life prison sentence for murdering a man because he was homosexual has filed a petition to adopt an 18-year-old girl as his daughter.
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National: 12 Nov 11
Sober drivers who injure another person in traffic often receive longer prison sentences than drunk drivers, according to new research.
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National: 10 Nov 11
A 44-year-old woman and her son have been convicted for raping the family's underage daughter over a period of several years. The children were made to believe that sex between siblings was "normal".
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National: 8 Nov 11
A 27-year-old man from Umeå in northern Sweden has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for fatally stabbing a 55-year-old woman, who he allegedly thought was a man due to her extensive facial hair.
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Lifestyle: 8 Nov 11
While Ikea, H&M, and Ericsson are all well known Swedish brands, here's a list of ten more products and brands from the land of the midnight sun that any self-proclaimed Swedophile should also know.
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Society: 8 Nov 11
The Swedish military has condemned that a participant in a recent hostage survival exercise was accused of being a homosexual, but ruled there was nothing wrong with officers threatening to rape his girlfriend.
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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: 3 Nov 11
A man from southern Sweden was apprehended by police after trying to rob a Seven Eleven store with a knife and a hand written note, apologizing in advance for any inconvenience.
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National: 3 Nov 11
Julian Assange's mother and lawyers on Thursday increased pressure on the Australian government to intervene over the WikiLeaks founder's extradition to Sweden, arguing he won't get a fair trial.
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National: 2 Nov 11
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has lost his appeal of a UK court ruling requiring that he be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over sex crimes allegations. His lawyers say they are considering an appeal of the the ruling.
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Business & Money: 1 Nov 11
On Tuesday Swedish telecom giant Ericsson rejected claims that the company has sold tracking equipment to mobile operators in Iran.
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National: 1 Nov 11
As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange awaits a London court's ruling on whether he will be extradited to Sweden to face questioning over rape allegations, experts say that appealing the decision may be difficult, the AFP's Danny Kemp explains.
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National: 31 Oct 11
Two men suspected of robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year and arrested after forensics discovered their faeces near the getaway car, have been sentenced to prison, a Swedish court ruled on Monday.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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