Policing and criminal justice system in Sweden
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Health and Welfare Board highlights ethnic discrimination
A report by the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare states that segregation has increased in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmo and more people of foreign origin are outside the labour market and social security.
28 March 2006 (50 words)
Integration projects boosted by government funding
As part of its spring budget, the government announced that one billion kroner would be invested in a ten-point integration project, with 700m kröner being given to municipalities to finance the receiving and integrating refugees.
27 March 2006 (91 words)
Liberals say increased exclusion highlights integration failures
According to a survey conducted by the Liberal party, exclusion is a major problem in Sweden, with a high proportion of immigrants living in areas of unemployment and educational underachievement.
27 March 2006 (60 words)
Legislation on forced marriages considered
On December 20, the government announced that it would set up a commission of inquiry into forced marriages with a view to changing legislation so as to criminalise forced marriages.
26 January 2006 (98 words)
Will nationality-based crime statistics break down prejudice?
The National Council for Crime Prevention, which is a government agency, says that in future crime statistics will be broken down by national origin in a bid to counter xenophobic propaganda which links immigrants to rising crime.
1 August 2002 (217 words)
More police action on racial discrimination sought
The police and the public prosecution system have been criticised for not doing enough to counter racial discrimination by the National Authority for Prosecutors and the Discrimination Bureau, which blames the prosecution system for not following up cases.
1 March 2000 (66 words)
Army must investigate neo-Nazi links
The Swedish military have admitted that the chair of the Sweden Democrats, Mikael Janson, received training as part of an emergency plan to deploy 700 extra police officers in extreme situations.
1 March 2000 (93 words)
Police officers evade prosecution for immigrant death
Hopes, that the policemen involved in the arrest which led to the death of the 41-year-old immigrant Osmo Valle, would be prosecuted, were dashed in May when the authorities ruled that new autopsy evidence into the cause of his death could not be considered.
1 November 1999 (127 words)
Police accused of institutional neglect of racial violence
While Säpo/RPS-Säk have published a report which admits that racially motivated crime is increasing dramatically, a report issued by a national police auditing group claims that the police in Skania, a district in the southernmost part of Sweden, are guilty of a blatant failure to deal with racially-motivated crime.
1 November 1999 (107 words)
Reinvestigation launched into death in police custody
The national prosecutor has reopened the case of Osmo V, an immigrant man who died following his violent arrest in 1995 in Karlstad, west Sweden.
1 March 1999 (40 words)
Police officer apprehended after violent assault on teenager
A police officer has been fined and told to leave the force after being found guilty of violence against an immigrant teenager in Stockholm.
1 March 1999 (75 words)
Police refused to prosecute paedophile who assaulted young asylum-seeker
Police refused to prosecute after a 10-year-old asylum-seeker from Romania claimed she was being sexually abused, arguing that the girl had only spoken out as a tactic to avoid deportation.
1 March 1999 (72 words)
Death in custody case reopened
Criticism from AI and the findings of a special investigation have forced the National Prosecutor to reopen the case against two police officers accused of the murder three years ago of Osmo V, who died shortly after being arrested by the police in Karlstad, western Sweden.
1 October 1998 (152 words)
Police operations against fascists and anti-fascists criticised
Following an official investigation, the officer in charge of organising the police presence at the Combat 18 rally in Stockholm on November 8th has been forced to concede that the action he took was inadequate.
1 October 1998 (164 words)
Deadly arrest techniques abandoned
The National Police Board has agreed to abandon certain arrest techniques after evidence that police, private guards and prison officers using such techniques were responsible for the deaths of 18 people over a two-year period.
1 February 1998 (62 words)
Judicial bias against immigrants and in favour of racists
An investigation by the newspaper, Aftonbladet, suggests bias in the response of the criminal justice system to the perpetrators of serious violence involving bodily harm.
1 February 1998 (84 words)
Battle over access to records of asylum-seeker's fingerprints
The police are unhappy with a decision by the Immigration Office to restrict access to the files of fingerprints taken from asylum-seekers.
1 August 1997 (108 words)
Death on underground follows violent arrest
Five policemen and six private security guards are under investigation after a 35-year-old man died during a violent attempt to arrest him on the Stockholm underground.
1 August 1997 (36 words)
Investigation into police violence on women's anti-violence march
Immigrants and young women were specifically targeted by Stockholm police when they violently broke up a 'Reclaim the Streets' march.
1 August 1997 (59 words)
Investigation into African's complaint
An investigation has been launched after a Kenyan man alleged that he was attacked by the police and told 'you will not leave this station alone' and 'you Africans should go back to Africa'.
1 August 1997 (44 words)
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