The man responsible for the brutal 2003 murder of Sweden's foreign minister Anna Lindh has been transferred to a psychiatric asylum following the deterioration of his mental health, Swedish public radio reported Saturday.
One hurdle has been cleared for a proposal to allow victims' relatives to have a role when people serving life sentences are considered for release. The Swedish Council on Legislation, Lagrådet, which determines whether new laws or changes in current law are constitutional, will allow the proposal to go forward.
Evidence of links between an imam on trial on terror charges in Stockholm and the terrorist organisation Ansar al-Islam strengthened on Tuesday, after two witnesses told the court of appeal that the man was also known as Ali Sharia.
As police continue to pick up the pieces following Monday's attack on a Securicor van in Stockholm, technical experts suggest that the robbers had little experience of explosives - and were lucky not to have blown themselves up as they raided the vehicle.
A security vehicle was raided on the E4 motorway near the Hallunda junction just after midday on Monday. Four masked men armed with automatic weapons threatened the guards.
A cash depot belonging to security company Securitas in Akalla, in north Stockholm, was robbed early on Thursday morning. The armed thieves broke in using a large digging machine and are thought to have escaped with a significant amount of cash.
A 25 year old man was stabbed to death in Lindesberg on Monday evening, leading Swedish police to put out a national alert in an attempt to catch the killers.
The number of prisoners being kept in solitary confinement in Sweden has almost doubled over the last ten years. At the same time, it has become considerably harder to gain approval for parole applications.
Foreign drivers who exceed the speed limit are not being fined when caught by Swedish speeding control cameras because of a lack of cooperation between international police forces.
Prosecutors are appealing the verdict of a Stockholm court, in which three men were found not guilty of killing 29-year old Marcus Gabrielsen on Kungsgatan in central Stockholm earlier this year.
A prisoner at a Swedish jail has been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Now, all staff and prisoners at Tillberga open prison near Västerås who have had close contact with the infected man are to be tested for the disease.
Swedish correctional facilities may be the institutions of choice for discerning war criminals, but for those already slammed up in Sweden, it seems that anywhere else in the world is better.
Fifty kilograms of heroin, worth some 10 million euros (93 million kronor) on the street, and destined for the Swedish market, was seized by Finnish customs officials on Thursday, Finnish
A man who was kidnapped in Malmö early on Monday morning was probably the victim of a revenge attack, police have said. However, the three kidnappers – now in custody – apparently snatched the wrong victim.
SSU, the troubled youth wing of the Social Democratic Party, has elected a new leader. Anna Sjödin was unanimously elected at the organisation’s annual conference in Linköping.
Amnesty International and organisers of the ongoing Stockholm Pride gay festival submitted a letter Monday to the Latvian embassy in Sweden protesting recent anti-gay remarks by the Latvian prime minister, Amnesty said.
Bureaucracy isn't kind to prosecution witnesses. A year and a half ago, the Swedish government received recommendations to help people testify in criminal trials. The silence since then is angering many.
Escapees from a psychiatric lockup simply picked the wrong victims on Wednesday night: while apparently casing a target house near Sundsvall, the owner came out and scared them off - by showing his police badge.
