A Stockholm court on Monday convicted a man of inciting ethnic hatred during four Quran burnings in 2023 that sparked outrage ...

Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. The court dropped the case ...

A Swedish court on Monday found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty of hate crime over statements made as he assisted another man ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...

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

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STOCKHOLM (AP) — Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings.

Momika, who arrived in Sweden from Iraq in 2018, had earlier called his 'Quran-burning protests' as his opposition against the holy book, because he believed the Quran 'should be banned in the ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told the ...