Sweden: Doctors want to ban circumcision Via the Local : Circumcision of young boys for religious and non-medical reasons ought to be banned in Sweden, urged the Swedish Paediatric Society (Svenska barnläkarföreningen, BLF).
Sweden: Father abducts 15-year old girl from foster care The Local recently reported the story of a 15-year-old girl who was abducted by four armed men from her foster home. One of the men was her father
Sweden: Six charged over ‘honor’ beating Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, were charged with beating a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym. Police believe the attack is an honor crime.
Sweden: Website touts ruse to turn in illegal immigrants Via the Local : An anti-immigrant website has urged readers to infiltrate a group focused on helping undocumented immigrants in Sweden in order to turn them over to police. The campaign by the Sweden Democrat-linked website Avpixlat (literally, “unpixelated”, but also a Swedish colloquialism meaning to “reveal” or “unmask”), comes in response to a call for help in finding housing for a family of undocumented immigrants published on Facebook last week by asylum advocacy group Asylgruppen Lund
Sweden: Website touts ruse to turn in illegal immigrants Via the Local : An anti-immigrant website has urged readers to infiltrate a group focused on helping undocumented immigrants in Sweden in order to turn them over to police. The campaign by the Sweden Democrat-linked website Avpixlat (literally, “unpixelated”, but also a Swedish colloquialism meaning to “reveal” or “unmask”), comes in response to a call for help in finding housing for a family of undocumented immigrants published on Facebook last week by asylum advocacy group Asylgruppen Lund.
Sweden: Bid to ‘define Swedish citizenship’ Or in other words, define what ‘being Swedish’ means. Via the Local : The government plans to launch an inquiry to study Swedish citizenship in hopes of finding ways to boost its value and use it as a tool for integration.
Malmö: Funeral march against growing violence ( clip of the funeral march ) Via the Local : The arresting image of the grieving father of 15-year-old Ardiwan Diaa Samir, attempting to climb down into his dead son’s grave at the funeral on Wednesday, was a sombre reminder of the consequences of the escalating violence in southern Sweden.
Gothenburg: Sister retracts ‘honour killing’ allegations Via the Local : A 21-year-old woman from Gothenburg in western Sweden who had accused her brother of threatening to take her life in an “honour killing”, retracted her allegations on the opening day of the trial on Monday. “Families often put a lot of pressures on these girls. They promise the world to them.
Sweden: Agency slams immigrant language class failings Via the Local : Many of Sweden’s municipalities fail to place newly arrived immigrants in Swedish language classes within the time frames stipulated by law, a new investigation has found. “It’s regrettable that municipalities don’t prioritize the possibility for new arrivals to start their education as soon as possible,” Erica Sahlin, a project leader with the Swedish Schools Inspectorate (Skolinspektionen), said in a statement.
Sweden: Somalis ’shut out’ of health system Via the Local : Many Somalis in Sweden feel dismissed when visiting a doctor in Sweden, according to a new study, which shows that many end up looking abroad for medical treatment as a result. The findings come from a new doctoral dissertation by Kristian Svenberg with the Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University