The Swedish Court condemns man for desecration of the Holy Koran

A Swedish man has been convicted of hate crimes for publicly desecrating the sacred Quran in a failure transmitted five days after another man was also prosecuted by the incidents he was shot dead.

Salwan Najem, a Swedish citizen, received a suspended prayer and fines for the deep deep of the sacred book and the derogatory comments he made about Muslims in the 2023 incidents, which caused disturbances and inspired anger towards Sweden in Muslim countries.

His activist partner, the Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, was shot dead last week the day he had to receive his verdict in a parallel case. No suspect has yet been accused in that murder; Five people were arrested but then released. The Prime Minister of Sweden has said that a foreign state could have been behind him.

The burns of 2023 of the Sacred Koran made the balance between the rights of freedom of expression and the rules that protect ethnic and religious groups in an important problem for Sweden, their Nordic neighbors and other European countries.

The Stockholm District Court said in a 50 -year -old Najem statement, and Momika had desecrated the Quran in several ways and made offensive statements directed towards Islam, representatives of religion and activities in the mosques.

Najem was declared guilty of hate crimes for “having expressed contempt for the Muslim ethnic group due to his religious beliefs four times,” he said.

Najem’s lawyer said he would appeal against the verdict.

“My client considers that his statements are within the scope of criticism of religion, which is covered by freedom of expression,” he said.

The court had abandoned the case against Momika after he was killed.