A Syrian man, who claimed to be a doctor and performed circumcisions on nine boys using a soldering gun has been given a suspended sentence, community service and a $10,000 fine. A resident of the city of Gavle, he is said to be in his 30s, he was charged with assault, causing bodily harm and violating Sweden’s law on circumcision, local media reported. The court was told that some of the victims... 

On a digital advertising board at the entrance to Gävle in Sweden, a Muslim woman in a hijab has welcomed visitors to the city in the past week. In a comment published on Facebook Gävle Municipality writes that Gävle is a city of “great diversity”. “The woman in the ad is one of Gävle’s many Muslim women and she has chosen to wear the hijab because she wants to and because she feels like... 

The proportion of Muslims in Sweden is currently estimated at about 8.1 percent of the country’s population of 10 million, making it the most numerous in Scandinavia. A reporter from the Swedish newspaper Gefle Dagblad was threatened by an imam over the journalist’s investigation into a Muslim school thought to be linked to a local mosque in the city of Gavle, Expressen reports. The incident... 

Two boys 17 and 19 years old were convicted today of the rape of a 15-year-old girl in an apartment in Gävle at the beginning of May. The 19-year-old was sentenced to two years in prison and the 17-year-old to juvenile detention for eight months. In addition they must also pay 82,500 Swedish Kronor for damages to the girl. Immediately after 7pm on March 8 a girl calls SOS [911 equivalent] and says...