The Iraqi was recently deported from Sweden for staging a series of public Quran burnings which is the holy book in Islam and among Muslims. Country officials said that Salwan Momika had committed ...

Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday ... and protection of human rights was "a big lie". Norway deported him back to Sweden only weeks later. In the wake of his initial ...

Salwan Momika was killed by unknown assailants in the apartment he was staying in. Photo: Fredrik Persson/TT Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies ...

Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran ...

Stockholm – Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023, have been dismissed as suspects, a prosecutor said on March 21.

TASS/. The organizer of the Quran-burning rallies, Salwan Momika, is leaving Sweden and will seek asylum in Norway, the Expressen newspaper reported. "I'm moving to a country that welcomes me and ...

While the religion news cycle in the U.S. has been dominated lately with tensions between church and state (or at least a Trump administration), in Sweden religion news has centered on a different ...

Salwan Momika. Najem received a suspended sentence and a fine. The court ruled that while criticism of religion is allowed, the protests expressed contempt for Muslims. The burnings strained ...

An Iraqi man who carried out several Koran burnings in Sweden has died, a court in Stockholm said on Thursday. Swedish media reported that he was killed in a shooting in a nearby city. Salwan ...

STOCKHOLM - Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Koran in 2023, have been dismissed as suspects, a prosecutor said on Friday.

TASS/. Investigators have identified five suspects in the killing of Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika over his burning of the Quran, the Swedish Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday.