Swedish police have arrested a man with an “immigrant background” following a series of rapes in the resort village of Sälen, according to local media. The suspect was originally detained on probable grounds in five different rapes that occurred between January 31 and February 14. After appealing the warrant, his charges were lowered to two offenses, but he is still under suspicion for... 

These days, a fiery debate is raging in Sweden on whether to return jihadists stuck in the Middle East or not. A professor has sparked outrage by claiming to be ready to welcome the terrorists in exchange for critics of immigration. Andreas Petterson, a doctor of law and an associate professor at Södertörn University, one of Sweden’s leading institutions of higher learning, caused a stir ith... 

Swedish right-wing politicians criticised the Swedish EPP member parties after they called on the party family to expel Hungary’s ruling Fidesz party. “We don’t want to meddle into internal EPP affairs, if they have a valid reason to criticise Hungary’s governing party, they should do that. But their current criticism is rather a part of the political campaign of the leftist-liberal forces”,... 

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... 

A horse was set on fire and an elderly woman was doused in lighter fluid near a flaming grill by an “immigrant gang” in separate incidents in Sweden, according to local media. In Örebro, a horse was treated for burns after one or more perpetrators allegedly broke into stables overnight at a women’s college and set fire to a quilt laid across the animal’s back, Expressen reports. “Someone... 

Sex robots and sex dolls reinforce the view that women are objects and normalise men’s violence against women, three feminist Swedish organisations claim. They’re demanding legislation targeting technology that “reproduces ideas about exploiting women’s bodies”. This is great! We’ve already explained why we too want a total ban on sex dolls and especially on robots!... 

Hungary’s foreign ministry has summoned the Swedish ambassador over critical remarks by a Swedish minister concerning the Hungarian government’s recent family assistance measures, the foreign minister said. In a tweet, Annika Strandhall, the Swedish minister for social affairs, said that Hungary’s “alarming” policies were “reeking of the 1930’s.” She suggested the Hungarian prime minister,... 

Sweden’s minister for social affairs compared Hungary’s new family assistance measures to Nazism. Hungarian Foreign Minister Szijjarto hit back by criticising the Scandinavian country’s migration policy. In a tweet, Annika Strandhall, the Swedish minister for social affairs, said that Hungary’s “alarming” policies were“reeking with the 1930’s”. She suggested the Hungarian prime minister,... 

Swedish commuter train travelers between Uppsala and Stockholm were trapped in a train car with a knife-wielding man last monday. According to testimony, the man used pepper spray inside the train car and ordered travelers to sit still while he stabbed two people. The drama took place at 5 pm in a commuter train car filled with travelers between Uppsala Central Station and Arlanda Airport When the... 

Every fourth student in Sweden now has a foreign background, according to a new survey from SVT news. Tax-funded state television SVT seems upset that there is an uneven distribution of migrant students. Schools are insufficiently mixed, they claim. In the city of Linköping, for example, there are several schools with over 90 percent migrant students, while others only have around five percent. There... 

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... 

Hyper-progressive Sweden is a bastion of environmentalism and veganism, but a Swedish professor is now drawing ridicule for suggesting that pet owners should feed their dogs a vegetarian diet, all in the name of saving the planet. Reducing CO2 emissions and recycling packaging have long been understood as important steps towards curbing climate change. However, the environmental lobby has recently... 

A dog breeder in southern Sweden was brutally beaten in connection with a robbery last week. Three masked men stole her six puppies. Now, several puppy ads written in poor Swedish and at low prices have appeared on various websites. 51-year-old Eivor Nilsson was on her way to let her Golden Retriever puppies out when three masked men attacked her, Samhällsnytt reports. The men sprayed red colour... 

Sweden was rocked Wednesday night by a series of explosions, a drive-by shooting, a kidnapping, and a fire at an asylum residence, according to local media and police. In Skåne County, three detonations over the span of four hours kept the ‘bomb squad’ very busy as a blast at an apartment building in Landskrona was followed by two more in nearby Malmö – one at a grocery store and... 

Head of online hate speech monitoring group “Näthatsgranskaren” Tomas Åberg receives tax funds for mass reporting pensioners and others who write critically about migration on Facebook. And now he claims that his reports to the police have resulted in almost 150 hate speech convictions. “1,218 police reports 2017-2018. 144 hate speech sentences, from 214 notifications. Many are waiting for...