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Sweden Supreme Administrative Court (Högsta förvaltningsrätten) 2022 Sweden / Supreme Administrative Court / Målnummer 4266-21, 4120-21 Religion Muslims In two cases, the Supreme Administrative Court examined whether municipal decisions not to accept headscarves and similar clothing items that have the purpose of concealing students and staff in municipal preschools and primary schools were contrary to legislation or other regulations. A number of municipal inhabitants in each municipality claimed, among other things, that the municipal decisions interfered with the freedom of religion. View more
Sweden Supreme Court (Högsta Domstolen) 2021 Sweden / Supreme Court / Målnummer Ö 2343-18 Race/Ethnicity eu citizens & nationals with migrant background The case concerned a passenger of Chilean origin (PAG) who was subjected to an extra security check in connection with a domestic flight in Sweden. The Equality Ombudsman (Diskrimineringsombudsmannen, DO) brought an action, claiming that the airline had subjected PAG to direct discrimination by assuming him to be an Arab person and forcing him to undergo an extra security check. The airline had therefore disadvantaged PAG for reasons relating to his physical appearance and ethnicity. The… View more
Sweden Gothenburg District Court (Göteborgs tingsrätt) 2021 Sweden / District Court / Målnummer T 17336-19 Race/Ethnicity persons of african origin The case concerned actions by the Västra Götaland Region's (Region) regarding a Muslim man of African origin suffering from what was later determined as a haemorrhage of the brain. The man suddenly collapsed in his home. The responsible ambulance nurse did not consider the man to be in critical need of emergency care. Instead, as the nurse noted in the journal, she assessed the man as “faking unconsciousness”. The nurse also noted “cultural fainting?” in the journal. This assessment by the… View more
Sweden Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) 2021 Sweden / Court of Appeal / Målnummer B 784-19 Religion Muslims The case concerns agitation against a population group (hets mot folkgrupp) online. The defendant was indicted for commenting on four different posts/links in a Facebook group called Stop Islam (Stoppa Islam). The first comment read "Europe is collapsing...now it's up to each state to protect its own citizens and send out the "flow-ins" (Europa faller ihop...nu är det upp till varje stat att skydda sina egna medborgare och skicka ut invällorna). The second comment expressed… View more
Sweden Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) 2020 Sweden / Court of Appeal / Målnummer B 8432-19 Race/Ethnicity persons of african origin The case concerns the Act on responsibility for electronic notice boards (Lag [1998:112] om ansvar för elektroniska anslagstavlor). According to the Act, a provider of an electronic notice board can be held responsible for intentionally or through gross negligence not removing a content clearly constituting agitation against a population group (hets mot folkgrupp). In the case, the Court of Appeal sentenced a person for failing to remove several posts on the Facebook page "Stand up for… View more
Sweden Supreme Court (Högsta domstolen) 2020 Sweden / Supreme Court / Målnummer B 5987-19 Religion Muslims The case concerns agitation against a population group (hets mot folkgrupp) online. The defendant was indicted for commenting on a post in a Facebook group called Political facts (Politikfakta) by writing "Disgusting Muslim bastard" (Äckliga muslimjävel). The Facebook post linked to an article about a man of foreign origin who allegedly had committed an honour-related rape. View more
Sweden Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt) 2020 Sweden / Svea Court of Appeal (Svea Hovrätt)/ Case number: B 8211-19 Religion Muslims The prosecutor appealed the District Court’s sentence. The defendant had published derogatory statements about the group Muslims, referring to their religious belief. The statements were in the form of posts related to an article about a person murdered by a knife at an asylum accommodation centre. The article in question was linked to the political party Sweden Democrats’ Facebook page. The Facebook page is open to the public, and the defendant’s statements have been widely disseminated. The… View more
Sweden Court of Appeal for Western Sweden (Hovrätten för Västra Sverige) 2020 Sweden / Court of Appeal for Western Sweden (Hovrätten för Västra Sverige)/ Case number: B 1055-20 Race/Ethnicity Foreigners The defendant appealed the District Court’s sentence. The defendant was found guilty of agitation against an ethnic or national group. In a Facebook group, she wrote and disseminated a derogatory message about a group of persons with immigrant background, which consequently referred to their national and ethnic background. The original post focused on a 27-year man with foreign background that allegedly had punched an 86-year older man and was suspected of aggravated assault. The defendent’s… View more
Sweden Göteborgs Tingsrätt (Gothenburg's District Court) 2020 Sweden / Gothenburg District Court (Göteborgs Tingsrätt) / Case number: B 12803-18 Religion Muslims The District Court of Gothenburg acquitted a municipal politician prosecuted for grave defamation of two women who have been activists for Muslims’ rights. The prosecution of the politician referred to six posts published on the politician’s blog. In the blog posts, the politican had called the women things like "extremists" and "non-democrats".For a statement to be defined as defamation it is required that it can be given a specific content that can be tried against real… View more
Sweden Court of Appeal of Skåne and Blekinge (Hovrätten över Skåne och Blekinge) 2019 Sweden / Court of Appeal of Skåne (Skåne Hovrätt) / Case number: B 592-19 Religion Muslims The case concerns a prosecutor's appeal of a sentence from a District Court that freed the defendent C.L from the charges of agitation against an ethnic or national group (hets mot folkgrupp). C.L, a group leader for the party Sweden Democrats in Karlskrona, published a post on the party’s webpage in November 2017, which was the focus of the case. The Court of Appeal should decide whether the text in question expressed contempt for Muslims in a way that should be considered to be agitation… View more
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