An Iraqi man who burned copies of the Koran in Sweden has been killed in a shooting, Swedish authorities say. Swedish police said Salwan Momika was shot dead in a house in Sodertalje, a town near ...

A man who repeatedly burnt the Koran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead, media reported Thursday as police confirmed a man died in a shooting the day before.

In short: Salwan Momika, who sparked unrest in Stockholm in 2023 when he burned the Koran outside a mosque, has been shot dead in Sweden. He was facing four counts of agitating an ethnic group and ...

An anti-Islam activist who burnt the Koran repeatedly in protest, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead.

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court on Tuesday found a far-right activist guilty of two counts of hate crime against Muslims over statements he made while burning copies of the Koran, acts that triggered ...

Swedish prosecutors have charged a Swedish-Danish right-wing activist with inciting ethnic hatred by desecrating and burning a Koran in 2022.

Denmark and neighbouring Sweden became the focus of anger across several Muslim countries after a slew of protests involving burnings and desecrations of the Koran.

The Danish government said on Friday it was proposing legislation that would make it illegal to burn copies of the Koran in public places, part of the Nordic country's effort to de-escalate ...

Burning the Koran - why? Europe is too big to hide under a stone, but it could try to crawl under one. Op-ed.

More Koran burnings have taken place in Sweden and Denmark as the governments of the two Nordic countries said they were examining ways to legally limit such acts in a bid to de-escalate growing ...

A number of Koran burning incidents in Denmark and Sweden have sparked angry protests and have threatened a diplomatic crisis between the two countries and Muslim nations.