The Koran burning by Salwan Momika in front of a mosque ... midnight and was pronounced dead early Thursday. Momika was on trial in Stockholm District Court for "agitation against an ethnic ...

Salwan Momika caused widespread anger when he staged multiple Koran burnings in 2023. He was due to receive a verdict in a criminal trial in connection with the burnings today.

Momika had been charged along with another activist, Salwan Najem, for "agitation against an ethnic or national group". Stockholm District Court had been scheduled to pass judgement at 11am on ...

An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of ...

A Stockholm court was due to rule on Thursday whether Salwan Momika, a Christian Iraqi who burned Qorans at a slew of protests, was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred.

Najem dömdes för fyra fall av hets mot folkgrupp, efter de uppmärksammade koranbränningar han genomförde tillsammans med ...

Freedom of religion means that religious beliefs, or irreligious ones, can be criticized, even mocked, as happens frequently ...

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 ...

A man who repeatedly burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead south of Stockholm, investigators ...

Jan. 30 (UPI) --An Iraqi living in Sweden who faced threats after burning the Koran in Stockholm in 2023 died in a shooting Wednesday, shortly before a verdict in his trial was about to be revealed.