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 receive a sentence in Sweden.

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

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 ...

STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has died, a court in Stockholm said Thursday. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city.

Sweden's Security Service told Reuters it was assessing the potential impact of the shooting "on Swedish security." Burning the Koran is seen by Muslims as a blasphemous act because they consider ...

An Iraqi refugee in Sweden has been killed hours before a court ruling on his repeated burning of the Quran in ... Iraqi protesters reacted by storming the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice in ...

Stockholm condemned the 2023 burnings, although Swedish authorities allowed the demonstrations that summer, citing freedom of speech, and filed charges against Momika. Turkish President Recep ...