Stockholm – Five men arrested in Sweden over the killing of Salwan Momika, who repeatedly burned copies of the Quran in 2023, have been dismissed as suspects, a prosecutor said on March 21.

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 ...

On January 29, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi living in Sweden who had gained notoriety by publicly burning copies of the Quran, was shot dead in his apartment in Stockholm. The killing took place in ...

The Stockholm district court was to have published its verdict against Momika and 50-year-old Salwan Najem the following day, but postponed it until Monday after Momika's killing. "There is a wide ...

Salwan Momika. Najem received a suspended sentence and a fine. The court ruled that while criticism of religion is allowed, the protests expressed contempt for Muslims. The burnings strained ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...

Momika, who arrived in Sweden from Iraq in 2018, had earlier called his 'Quran-burning protests' as his opposition against the holy book, because he believed the Quran 'should be banned in the ...

Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings received worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in ...

SALWAN MOMIKA: IRAQI LEADER TO ASYLUM SEEKER Momika was born into ... Momika ran his armed group in the outskirts of the Iraqi city of Mosul in 2017. He had to flee from Iraq in 2018 after a power ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...