Three men accused of beating a man to death in central Stockholm in May have been released by the Stockholm City Court ahead of a judgment expected on Monday.
Sweden's railways and postal service should be run by state-owned monopolies. That's the view of the Left Party, which took centre stage on the final day of the Almedalen political week on Gotland.
The Swedish government has decided to reduce the threshold for DNA testing of suspected criminals. From the beginning of 2006, anyone suspected of a crime which could lead to a prison sentence of any duration will be required to give a DNA sample.
Ulf Olsson, convicted murderer of 10-year old Helén Nilsson and 26-year old Jannica Ekblad, has been sent to a secure mental institution by the Court of Appeal in Malmö.
A Swedish woman, arrested in Manila with 2.5 kilograms of amphetamines, has been sentenced to life in prison in the Philippines, the Swedish foreign ministry said Saturday.
A Swede held hostage in Iraq for 67 days and released a month ago has vowed to take revenge on his captors and has hired bounty hunters to capture them, Swedish media reported on Wednesday.
Three men went on trial in Gothenburg on Thursday in connection with the kidnapping of Fabian Bengtsson, chief executive of the Siba electronics chain.
Letters containing a racist text and an unidentified white powder were received Wednesday by a number of government offices and organisations across Stockholm, including the foreign ministry, officials said.
Police in the Swedish town of Västerås are investigating reports that a girl has been kidnapped, after a ten-year old girl reported on Tuesday seeing a man leading a four-year old away from a playground.
A Swedish man was kidnapped and held hostage in Iraq for more than two months before being released three weeks ago, Sweden's foreign ministry said Tuesday in the first public news of the abduction.
The body of twelve-year old Kristian Walker, who was rumoured to have been kidnapped in the aftermath of the Asian tsunami, has been found in Thailand.
Sweden is willing to receive more war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, but would not consider detaining Saddam Hussein in its prisons, Justice Minister Thomas Bodström has said.
A riot by over forty prisoners at a jail in central Sweden ended on Friday night, but not before a prison building had been wrecked by the rebellious inmates.
The teenage couple accused of the murder of the girl's mother made their first court appearance today at the district court in Värnamo, Småland. The 17 year old girl and her 18 year old boyfriend both pleaded guilty through their lawyers to the murder, as well as the attempted murder of her father and sister.
Police hunting the killer of a 70 year old man and his 68 year old partner who were found dead on Thursday afternoon at the man's farm on the island of Härnö, near Härnösand, say they have no suspects.
Annika Östberg was left "extremely disappointed" as a Los Angeles parole board for the third time turned down her request for clemency. She was found guilty in 1981 of being an accessory to two murders, including that of a policeman, and sentenced to "25 years to life imprisonment".
