A n Iraqi refugee in Sweden who repeatedly burned the Koran in 2023, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, investigators said Thursday, with Sweden's prime minister suggesting ...

A man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden has been found guilty of hate crimes, five days after his co-defendant was shot dead. Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen ...

Salwan Najem, a 50-year-old Swedish citizen, was given a suspended sentence and fined 4,000 crowns ($358) over the Koran burnings and derogatory comments he made about Muslims in the 2023 ...

Salwan Momika staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several ...

Freedom of religion means that religious beliefs, or irreligious ones, can be criticized, even mocked, as happens frequently ...

Momika, an immigrant from Iraq, had gained notoriety in recent years for lighting copies of the Quran aflame during public demonstrations against Islam. Late last month he stepped onto his balcony and ...

HELSINKI - A Swedish prosecutor said on Friday he had decided to release from detention five suspects who were held over the killing on Wednesday of an anti-Islam campaigner. Salwan Momika ...

A Swedish court sentenced an anti-Islam activist to a suspended sentence and a fine on Monday after finding him guilty of hate crimes, Deutsche Welle reported. Salwan Najem, a Swedish citizen ...

while making derogatory remarks about Muslims -- on two occasions outside a Stockholm mosque. The Swedish government repeatedly criticised the desecrations at the time but said that freedom of ...

Man Found Guilty of Hate Crime Over Sweden Koran Burnings STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes involving staging public burnings of ...

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes involving staging public burnings of the Koran, in a ruling handed down five days after another man also ...