The 43-year-old man was also convicted of sending a letter bomb to a UK cryptocurrency firm and targeting other high-profile Swedes via written death threats and white powder letters.
The Jewish Association (Judisk föreningen) in Umeå, northern Sweden has decided to end its activities and close its centre in the city following Nazi threats.
A Swedish handball player has told The Local about the threats – but also praise – she has received since she decided to start shaming her online abusers on social media.
A former Social Democrat MP and one of the party's most outspoken feminist and anti-racist campaigners on Tuesday said 'lies and hate' had prompted her to take a break from Twitter.
One in five Swedish politicians has been threatened or harassed, a new crime prevention council study has found. Women were more likely than men to think such attacks were simply "part of the job".
Sweden's democracy minister wants to consider harsher sentences for politically motivated crimes, citing social media as a factor that has desensitized a generation to hate speech.
Prominent members of Finland's Swedish-speaking minority revealed they have received death threats, sparking a protest on Wednesday and shaking the image of harmony between the country's two major linguistic groups.
Swedish police announced on Wednesday an increase in security at Malmö's Eurovision Song Contest in May, including metal detectors for spectators and extra bomb-sniffing dogs from around the country.
Threats and harassment in the Swedish sports industry affect almost half of all club directors but also taint the working life of referees and event employees, a government ombudsman has warned.
As the Swedish media examines the climate of hatred towards women in the public eye, editor and author Åsa Linderborg recounts what happened when her newspaper Aftonbladet decided to blow the lid on Sweden’s far-right websites.
Some 40 percent of Muslim congregations in Sweden have been exposed to some form of criminal attack, according to a recently published study at Mid Sweden University.
Threats and attempts to scare off both crime victims as well as witnesses of said crimes have become more common in Sweden, and most victims are young.
The 22-year-old animal rights activist, suspected of arson and of writing threatening letters, sometimes penned in his own blood, has been sentenced to three years in prison.
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.
Floods, infectious disease, forest fires, and cyber attacks are among several threats to Sweden identified by the country's Civil Contingencies Authority (Myndigheten för Samhällsskydd och Beredskap-MSB).
The full extent of threats and violence directed against Swedish politicians is to be mapped for the first time in what is thought to be the world's largest investigation of its kind.
The court of appeal in Malmö (Hovrätten) has overturned guilty verdicts served to two men in connection with the sale of a mentally handicapped 14-year-old girl for sex, reducing a third man's sentence for pimping.
