A Swedish court on Tuesday sentenced a Swedish-Danish right-wing activist to four months in jail for inciting ethnic hatred at two 2022 protests that included the burning of Korans.

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court on Tuesday found a far-right activist guilty of two counts of hate crime against Muslims over ...

Some time after the events that he has now been convicted of, Paludan burned a translated copy of the Koran near Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm, angering the Turkish government who held the keys to ...

Rasmus Paludan, a far-right activist, was convicted of hate crimes in Sweden after burning copies of the Koran, leading to unrest in 2022. Despite Sweden's freedom of speech laws, his actions were ...

KABUL (Reuters) – Thousands of Afghans held protests on Friday to express anger after a far-right politician publicly set fire to the Koran in Sweden last week. On Saturday, the anti-immigrant ...

Rasmus Paludan, leader of the far-right "Stram Kurs" party in Denmark, is on trial in Sweden after publicly burning the Quran. Paludan’s trial opened in the Swedish city of Malmö on Monday but ...

Sweden’s central bank has cut its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 2.75% in what was described as the largest reduction in over a decade STOCKHOLM -- Sweden’s central bank on ...

Rasmus Paludan provoked rioting in Sweden in 2022 when he went on a tour of the country and publicly burned copies of the Koran. In August, prosecutors charged him with "agitation against an ...

Denmark last year tightened legislation to ban public Koran burnings outright. Paludan's political party has failed to win any seats in elections in either Denmark or Sweden.

A Swedish court handed a four-month prison term to the Danish far-right politician who started a series of Koran burnings that complicated the Nordic country’s accession to NATO. According to ...

Far-Right Activist Convicted in Sweden of Hate Speech Against Muslims ... over statements he made whilst burning copies of the Koran, acts that triggered riots in the Nordic country in 2022.