Swedish prosecutors say they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, ...

Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi man who staged several burnings and desecrations of the Quran in Sweden in 2023, has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm.

Salwan Momika’s 2023 burning of Islam’s holy book drew ire in the Muslim world. He was killed just before he was set to ...

The 2023 Quran burnings made the balance between free speech rights and rules protecting ethnic and religious groups into a major issue for Sweden and other European countries. The judge presiding ...

A Swedish court on Monday found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty of hate crimes for organizing public burnings of the Quran after. Due to the Quran burnings and his disparaging remarks about Muslims in ...

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

The court argued that the motive of the Quran-burning incidents "clearly exceeded the bounds of objective debate and criticism," Sweden's Dagens Nyheter newspaper reported. The Quran ...

In August of that year, Sweden's intelligence service Sapo raised its threat level to four on a scale of one to five, saying the Quran burnings had made the country a "prioritised target".

The two men were accused of desecrating the Quran, including by burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims, on two of the occasions outside a Stockholm mosque. The Swedish ...