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The following articles have been tagged with "Statute_of_limitations":

Swedish town rocked by second child exorcism

National: 13 Apr 12
Another teenage girl from western Sweden has reported being subjected to kicks, beatings and electric shocks, as her parents tried to exorcise her from evil spirits. READ »

District court 'forgot' child porn crime case

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. READ »

Swedish doc free from child porn charges due to slow probe

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. READ »

Palme was 'the best politician we ever had'

Politics: 28 Feb 11
Ordinary Swedes and political luminaries piled roses on the grave of Olof Palme on Monday, marking 25 years since the former prime minister was gunned down by an unknown assassin in central Stockholm. READ »

Swedes reflect on the death of Olof Palme

Lifestyle: 28 Feb 11
A quarter century after the assassination of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, contributor Anita Badejo talks to Swedes about their memories of the killing and how it affected the country. READ »

Unsolved Palme murder still hurts after 25 years

Analysis & Opinion: 28 Feb 11
Twenty-five years after Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was gunned down in central Stockholm, many Swedes still consider the murder an open wound, the AFP's Nina Larsson discovers. READ »

Priests in Sweden join the ranks of paedophiles

Society: 27 Feb 11
The Catholic Church of Sweden confirms three priests are believed to have sexually abused children over the span of 30 years. READ »

Swedish 'porn king' touts sex video hotels

Society: 9 Nov 10
Swedish porn mogul Berth Milton has come up with an unusual business proposition for his next project: five-star hotels where guests can stay for free in exchange for having their indiscretions filmed and broadcast over the internet. READ »

Ex-police chief appeals jail term for sex offences

National: 19 Aug 10
Göran Lindberg, the former Uppsala county police chief convicted in July for a string of sex crimes, has appealed his six and half year prison sentence. READ »

Top cop jailed for sex crimes

National: 30 Jul 10
Göran Lindberg, once one of Sweden's most senior police officers, has been jailed for six and a half years for a string of sex crimes. READ »

Littorin denies buying sex: lawyer

Politics: 10 Jul 10
The lawyer of former employment minister Sven Otto Littorin said on Saturday that her client denies Aftonbladet's allegations that he bought sex. READ »

Minister: Catholic Church should investigate

National: 30 Apr 10
After a series of reports of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church of Sweden, Bishop Anders Arborelius wants the state to investigate, but the church minister has expressed reluctance, arguing that the church can manage on its own. READ »

Court to review access to Sweden's 'Stasi files'

National: 21 Apr 10
Sweden's Supreme Administrative Court has taken up the case of a researcher who is applying for access to classified security police documents relating to Stasi contacts in Sweden. READ »

No damages for docs in Da Costa murder case

National: 18 Feb 10
A Swedish court on Thursday ruled that the two doctors previously suspected of committing the gruesome murder of Catrine da Costa, found dismembered in 1984, are not entitled to damages. READ »

Palme assassination case to remain open

Politics: 3 Feb 10
The investigation into the 1986 assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme is to remain open indefinitely after the parliament passed a bill on Wednesday abolishing the statute of limitations for murder. READ »

Trustor 'mastermind' questioned by Swedish police in Brussels

Business & Money: 26 Nov 09
Joachim Posener, accused of being the brains behind the Trustor investment scandal, has been questioned by Swedish authorities after more than a decade on the run. READ »

No penalty for man who filmed naked children

National: 3 Nov 09
A 29-year-old counselor caught secretly filming naked children at a Swedish summer camp won’t be punished for his crimes. READ »

Swede wanted in bribery case arrested in LA

National: 2 Nov 09
Police in Los Angeles have arrested a Swedish businessman wanted on charges of attempting to bribe a Stockholm police chief. READ »

Sweden to abolish expiry date for murder

National: 8 Oct 09
Sweden's government has proposed abolishing the statute of limitations for crimes that can lead to life imprisonment. Under current laws, suspects for a number of serious crimes can not be prosecuted if 25 years have elapsed since the crime was committed. READ »

Fugitives benefit from statute of limitations

National: 18 Jul 09
Hundreds of convicted individuals who were on the run and evaded capture for a sufficiently long period of time have had their prison sentences barred under the statute of limitations. READ »

Da Costa murder probe officially laid to rest

National: 11 Jul 09
Prosecutors have officially suspended the investigation into the murder of Catrine da Costa, who was found dismembered in 1984. The case is one of the modern famous cases in modern Swedish legal history. READ »

Swedes block Danish neo-Nazi extradition

National: 15 Nov 08
Sweden's highest legal official Göran Lambertz has argued that a Danish neo-Nazi can not be extradited from Sweden to face charges in Germany as he has committed no crime under Swedish law. READ »

The hidden lives of Sweden’s undocumented migrants

Analysis & Opinion: 9 Jul 08
Sweden has taken in thousands of asylum seekers in recent year. But not all have had their applications accepted. Faisal Enayat Khan describes his encounters with just a handful of Sweden's estimated 15,000 undocumented migrants. READ »

Child porn offenders could walk free

Society: 2 Jul 08
A number of suspected child porn offenders may escape trial as Swedish police, despite training 100 specialized staff, struggle to get through their caseload. READ »

Rare victory for doctors accused of dismemberment

National: 22 Apr 08
Two doctors accused of dismembering the body of a murdered prostitute in 1984 have achieved their first legal victory in a long quest to clear their names. READ »

Sweden rejects child prostitution damages claim

National: 26 Feb 08
Sweden has said it will not award damages to two women claiming to have been exploited in a major prostitution scandal in the 1970s. READ »

Dean resigns in church sex scandal

Society: 5 Feb 08
The Dean of Gothenburg has resigned following revelations of sexual harassment. The Bishop has admitted knowledge of the revelations for years. READ »

Iraqi agent murder: man released

National: 3 Jan 08
A man arrested in relation to the 1985 killing of an Iraqi agent in Stockholm has been released by Swedish prosecutors. READ »

The mystery of Stockholm's fake Warhols

National: 28 Dec 07
The revelation that Brillo Boxes believed to be by Andy Warhol were probably not by the artist has raised more questions than it has answered. READ »

Politicians named in prostitution scandal

Politics: 5 Dec 07
Two women at the centre of a major prostitution scandal have demanded compensation from the state. READ »

Doctors sue state over dismemberment claim

National: 5 Dec 07
The two doctors were cleared in 1988 of murdering a prostitute, but the judgement said they had dismembered her body. READ »

Pirate Bay trial delayed

Science & Technology: 3 Oct 07
The public prosecutor in the high profile Pirate Bay case has indicated that it may take several more months before any suspects are formally charged. Sixteen months after police conducted a raid on The Pirate Bay, some companies have finally had their confiscated equipment returned. READ »

'I spied for the Stasi'

Politics: 15 Aug 07
The Local speaks to a former Swedish journalist - codename König - who spied for the East German Stasi for the twenty year period leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall. 'I never spied on Sweden,' he says. READ »

Top boss gave US job to fugitive brother

National: 10 Aug 07
A Swedish prisoner who has been on the run for ten years was secretly given work in the United States by his own sister, the Harvard-educated CEO of a Swedish multinational. READ »

Swedes spied for Stasi

National: 9 Aug 07
A network of Swedes delivered information to the Stasi, East Germany's secret police, during the Cold War, it has been revealed. READ »

Prosecutor reveals ABB "secret" bonus scheme

Business & Money: 14 Nov 05
A "secret" bonus programme worth several hundred million kronor has been revealed within the Swedish engineering company ABB. The programme was in operation throughout the 1990s and eleven members of the firm's management were involved. READ »

"Abolish murder limitation period" - Bodström

National: 23 Sep 05
Sweden's Justice Minister, Thomas Bodström, wants to scrap the law which prevents murders committed more than 25 years ago from being brought to trial. "DNA does not fade like the memory does," he says. READ »


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