Swedish authorities allowed a pregnant 14-year-old asylum seeker to live with her 25-year-old “husband” for months until he was later arrested for raping the young girl.
All 230 employees of Malmö cemetery administration are to be trained in dealing with armed funeral guests, in response to a “new phenomenon” in the Swedish city, in which mourners carry weapons and don bulletproof vests to say their final goodbyes.
In the first nine months of 2017, the Swedish migration board has reported 2,875 serious incidents against their staff including threats of rape and assault, and threats to set fire to their offices.
Swedish lawyer Elisabeth Fritz claims that in the majority of rape cases she has had to work on the suspects have been individuals from migrant backgrounds and has called on the government to “lift the lid” on the issue.
A man living in Sweden has been found guilty of a war crime, becoming the first member of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces to be convicted since the war began in 2011.
The Swedish police force in southern Lapland, an area the size of Denmark, has been reduced to only one police car due to limited resources making police concerned they will not be able to respond properly to crimes.
Failed Eritrean asylum seeker Abraham Ukbagabir, who murdered a woman and her son in an Ikea in Västerås, Sweden, is now demanding he be let out of prison temporarily so he can visit McDonald’s and do some shopping.
Sweden’s youth festivals have always been plagued by an epidemic of sex attacks, according to the events manager of a festival where a number of children reported sexual abuse over the weekend. “I’ve called around, speaking to people who went
A former journalist who worked for the Swedish publicly funded broadcaster SVT was shot in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta, known as one of the country’s most notorious no-go zones.
Swedish electoral authorities have refused to register the Muslim-led “Jasin” party from taking part in next year’s Swedish election after radical Islamists had tried to take it over.
The Swedish medical research university-hospital Karolinska has created a video to educate new and expecting mothers but has had to make versions in Arabic and Somalian as midwives say there has been a sharp rise in births to mothers who do not speak Swedish.
A manager at Sweden’s public broadcaster SVT has been caught trying to “buy” the virginity of a 14-year-old girl in a newspaper sting, claiming when caught that he was trying to save the girl.
Transgender activists have attacked Sweden’s first women-only festival for only banning biological men, as this could imply transgendered men are not real men.
Around 200 asylum seekers have applied to extend their temporary residency into permanent residency through a jobs scheme, but none of the asylum seekers has managed to find full-time permanent work.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors have charged a Syrian asylum-seeker and a former fighter with Damascus’ government forces with war crimes on suspicion that he posed in front of dead or wounded combatants from the Islamic State group.
Swedish police may have to release a 15-year-old suspected of killing a 17-year-old earlier this week by stabbing him to death because they are unable to find a translator for him. The 15-year-old who is accused of the stabbing may have to
Emergency room workers at hospitals in the Swedish city of Malmö have said that escalating gang violence has caused their work environment to become so dangerous that they feel their lives are at risk.
The Swedish Ministry of Youth and Civil Affairs has announced a new programme to combat increased sex attacks committed by newly arrived migrants by releasing a ‘sex guidebook’ to teach them basic sex education and that women are allowed to say no.
Firefighters in the southern Swedish city of Malmö were forced to let a building burn to the ground after they were violently attacked by locals who threw glass bottles at them.
Around 50 failed asylum seekers crossed the border from Finland into Sweden at the border crossing in Torneå, in full view of authorities, hoping to claim asylum.
STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors say a person has been arrested in southern Sweden on suspicion of preparing a terror offence.
A new report has shown that the number of fatal shootings in Sweden is up to four to five times that in Germany and the number of hand grenade attacks is on par with Mexico.
The summer festival season in Sweden is over for the year but reports claim that there were over 150 cases of sex attacks including 20 rapes at the various festivals around the country.
Healthcare professionals working in Swedish hospitals are living in fear as a result of threats and violence from criminal patients and their extended families.
A man was arrested for attempted murder in central Stockholm, the capital of Sweden Thursday morning after a police officer was stabbed in the neck while on patrol, the second attack against police in the city in a matter of hours.
The Swedish church and police have both criticised one another over migrant deportations with the church attempting to protect migrants whilst authorities raided a church-sponsored migrant camp in Skåne.
A man in his 70’s has been given a fine of over a thousand pounds by a Swedish court after he made disparaging remarks about Muslims on social media.
The Swedish municipality of Hässleholm has purchased several “burkinis” for young Muslim girls saying that it allows them to participate in school swimming lessons.
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Swedish court has placed a Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of committing war crimes in Syria in pre-trial detention.
Several Swedish language podcasts have been removed from the audio website Soundcloud after the company emailed users telling them they had broken their “hate speech” terms of service.
The Swedish Employment Agency has released new statistics on unemployment that shows the employment for Swedes who have a foreign background is far greater than native Swedes. The agency released a report Monday saying that the total Swedish unemployment rate sits
Hungary has offered asylum to Christian convert Aideen Strandsson because the Swedish government plans to deport her to Iran where she could face prison or even the death penalty for apostasy.
The lawyer for one of the migrants in Sweden who raped a young girl and broadcast the incident on a Facebook livestream claims his client was not aware his actions were rape.
Swedish Interior Minister Morgan Johansson has ruled out the possibility of stripping Islamic State fighters of their Swedish citizenship saying the government refuses to make anyone stateless.
The number of hand grenade attacks in Sweden has risen by 550 per cent in just three years, with police describing the situation as “completely unacceptable”.
Sweden is seeing an increasing number of families returning from fighting for the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, but the children are not automatically taken into custody claiming some fighters may be good parents.
After a backlash for declaring the military exists to defend gay rights, Sweden’s army has promised to “never give up” promoting its support for LGBT issues.
Police in the southern Swedish province of Småland say at least four teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 17 were raped at the Emmaboda Festival over the weekend. They also claim hundreds of drug offences also took place at the event.
A woman in Sweden claims that she was denied service at a local Somalian-owned shop because she was not wearing an Islamic headscarf, and remarked she felt like she was back in her home country of Iran. The woman, a
A new documentary from VICE showcases Sweden’s introduction of government-funded gender-neutral kindergartens and a set of parents who are raising their children “without gender.”
