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A Swedish court on Thursday acquitted a former Syrian army general accused of playing a role in war crimes in his home country more than a decade ago. Brig. Gen. Mohammed Hamo, who now lives in ...
Sweden has been plagued by gang crime that has escalated over the last two decades and in 2023 the Nordic country registered the highest level of deadly gun violence per capita in Europe.
The woman, a 52-year old Swedish citizen identified in the court indictment as Lina Ishaq, also faces charges of genocide and war crimes - or as an accessory to them - between 2014 and 2016, they ...
The Swedish anti-terrorism bill of 2023 refers to the anti-terrorism legislation debated by the Swedish parliament. The new legislation had been first proposed in 2017 following the Stockholm truck attack and would criminalise "the participation in a terrorist organisation ". [ 1 ]
Capital punishment was abolished for all crimes, including those committed in time of war, on 1 January 1973. The clause that prohibits the death penalty has been part of the Constitution since 1975. Sweden is a state party to the Second Optional Protocol to ICCPR (ratified in 1990 [2]), Protocol No. 6 (1984), and Protocol No. 13 (2003) to ECHR ...
Between 1901 and 1958, Acts were generally passed every ten years, with the exception of the Defence Act of 1942, which was passed earlier due to World War II. The Defence Act of 1968 introduced a system requiring Defence Acts to be passed every five years. The work revolving a new Defence Act starts off with all elements of the Swedish Total ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -The former CEO and the former chairman of a Swedish oil firm went on trial in Sweden on Tuesday, accused of complicity in war crimes in Sudan between 1999 and 2003 - charges ...
Until the late 2000s, terrorism in Sweden was not seen as a serious threat to the security of the state. However, there has been a rise in far right and Islamist terrorist activity in the 21st century. [1] The Swedish government agency tasked with keeping watch over terrorism-related threats is the Swedish Security Service.