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.

Rasmus Paludan, who was sentenced to four months in jail, provoked rioting in Sweden when he went on a tour of the country ...

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.

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

Paludan burned a translated copy of the Koran near Turkey’s embassy in Stockholm, angering the Turkish government who held the keys to Sweden’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty ...

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. REUTERS Join ST's ...

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 ...

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.