death penalty

Crime

Sweden rejects Chinese request to extradite fugitive former official

Sweden's Supreme Court said on Tuesday it was refusing the extradition of a Chinese man accused of economic crimes because the man risks persecution and the death penalty in China.

iran

Iran slams Sweden for giving citizenship to death row 'spy'

Iran has formally criticised Sweden over its decision to grant nationality to an Iranian professor sentenced to death on spying charges, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.

iran

Stockholm academic's death sentence in Iran 'definitive': lawyer

Attempts to convince Iranian courts to review the death sentence given to an academic convicted of spying for Israel have failed, according to the man’s lawyer, who says the sentence is now "definitive".

iraq

Sweden summons Iraqi ambassador over execution of terror suspect

Sweden's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Iraqi ambassador after a Swedish-Iraqi citizen sentenced for terror crimes was executed in the south of Iraq.

drugs

Swede sentenced to death in Malaysia

A 44-year-old Swedish citizen has been given the death penalty by a Malaysian court for drugs trafficking, a crime which is penalized by hanging in the south-east Asian country.

Crime

Far-right member motions death penalty

During the annual congress of the far-right political party the Sweden Democrats, Joakim Larsson, chair of the Uppsala branch, has called for the introduction of the death penalty in Sweden.