Aug
Anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats party has said it wants to spend $2.3 billion on strengthening the justice system and withdraw grants for immigrants who do not adopt the country’s culture. The party’s leader, Jimmie Akesson, called it “a classic assimilation policy” and said he envisions the construction of special “Sweden centres” in marginalised areas. “There you […]
Jan
A 25-year-old woman, who does not have a residence permit and works illegally, has emerged in the home of Swedish Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson. When the security bell of the cleaning company gave a false alarm, the police raided Prime Minister Andersson’s home on December 21, 2021 and encountered a 25-year-old cleaning woman who did […]
Oct
Swedish police announced today that they are charging 36 people allegedly involved in a violent riot which erupted following a peaceful Black Lives Matter protest in Gothenburg last year.The protest, which saw thousands gather in the western city of Gothenburg in June 2020, unfolded calmly and was ended by the organisers, the authority said. But […]
Oct
A Turkish Swedish man who has been living in Sweden for over two decades and established a political party to fight racism and anti-Muslim hatred recently visited his hometown in central Turkey to mobilize support. Mikail Yüksel, who completed his undergrad and post-graduate studies at the University of Gothenburg, plans to run for the Swedish […]
Jun
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven defended his country’s strategy in fighting the spread of COVID-19, pushing back on the notion Sweden has taken a “business as usual” attitude toward the pandemic. Speaking to foreign correspondents Friday in the capital, Stockholm, Lofven insisted life is not carrying on as normal in Sweden, as he said its […]
Jun
Thousands of people have said they will join an online protest in Sweden today in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement, to protest against the killing of black American George Floyd by police in the US. The demonstration – which is set to take place online – is being organised by Aysha Jones together […]
May
It was just a few days after the ban on visits to his mother’s nursing home in the Swedish city of Uppsala, on 3 April, that Magnus Bondesson started to get worried. “They [the home] opened up for Skype calls and that’s when I saw two employees. I didn’t see any masks and they didn’t […]
May
Bjorn Branngard’s mother died in a Stockholm nursing home where five of the eight people in her section and more than a third of residents have so far succumbed to the new coronavirus. “They didn’t have time to take care of my mother,” he told AFP. Her coronavirus test came back negative two days after […]
May
Nursing homes are offering morphine to elder COVID-19 patients instead of admitting them to hospitals and providing ventilators, one care worker has said, noting that such treatment results in a painful death. Latifa Löfvenberg, who worked in one of the country’s many nursing homes, told BBC reporter Jon Tallinger in a Youtube program that elder […]
Apr
Turkey on Sunday brought home one of its citizens from Sweden who contracted coronavirus but was not given treatment. A Turkish air ambulance left Malmo Airport at 9 a.m. local time (0700GMT) and arrived at the Ankara Esenboğa Airport at 1:30 p.m. local time (1030GMT). After routine health checks, the patient Emrullah Gülüşken, 47, and […]
