https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Sweden in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Sweden's Supreme Court said on Tuesday it was refusing the extradition of a Chinese man accused of economic crimes because the man risks persecution and the death penalty in China. https://www.thelocal.se/20190709/sweden-refuses-to-extradite-chinese-man-death-penalty-risk Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:09:48 +0200 sweden-refuses-to-extradite-chinese-man-death-penalty-risk Iran has formally criticised Sweden over its decision to grant nationality to an Iranian professor sentenced to death on spying charges, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20180220/iran-slams-sweden-for-giving-citizenship-to-death-row-spy Tue, 20 Feb 2018 09:51:06 +0100 iran-slams-sweden-for-giving-citizenship-to-death-row-spy Attempts to convince Iranian courts to review the death sentence given to an academic convicted of spying for Israel have failed, according to the man’s lawyer, who says the sentence is now "definitive". https://www.thelocal.se/20180205/stockholm-academics-death-sentence-in-iran-definitive-lawyer Mon, 05 Feb 2018 09:00:37 +0100 stockholm-academics-death-sentence-in-iran-definitive-lawyer Sweden's Foreign Ministry has summoned the Iraqi ambassador after a Swedish-Iraqi citizen sentenced for terror crimes was executed in the south of Iraq. https://www.thelocal.se/20171215/sweden-summons-iraqi-ambassador-after-execution-of-terror-suspect Fri, 15 Dec 2017 08:45:56 +0100 sweden-summons-iraqi-ambassador-after-execution-of-terror-suspect A 44-year-old Swedish citizen has been given the death penalty by a Malaysian court for drugs trafficking, a crime which is penalized by hanging in the south-east Asian country. https://www.thelocal.se/20130412/47304 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:59:00 +0200 47304 During the annual congress of the far-right political party the Sweden Democrats, Joakim Larsson, chair of the Uppsala branch, has called for the introduction of the death penalty in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20091017/22712 Sat, 17 Oct 2009 10:56:00 +0200 22712