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 Swedish home-help service workers have recently been instructed to assist a disabled man who suffers from alcohol addiction to purchase drink. https://www.thelocal.se/20120403/40062 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:30:00 +0200 40062 A teaching assistant who allegedly sexually molested students 15 times at a school for children with learning difficulties in Sweden was charged on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.se/20120322/39832 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:08:00 +0100 39832 A 29-year-old disabled man in Sweden has been sentenced to pay damages to his personal caregivers after forcing them to perform sexual acts in order to secure permanent jobs and get their salaries paid out. https://www.thelocal.se/20111031/37056 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:08:00 +0100 37056 Swedish handicapped swimmer Anders Olsson shocked a field of experienced open-water swimmers by winning a race from prison island Alcatraz to the California mainland in record time on Sunday. https://www.thelocal.se/20110905/35960 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:55:00 +0200 35960 Disabled people are being lured to Sweden by false promises of generous benefits in a sophisticated fraud scheme that officials liken to human trafficking, according to Swedish media reports. https://www.thelocal.se/20110610/34268 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 10:33:00 +0200 34268 Two disabled women were made to feel like "a menace to society" after being told by a Swedish Q&A hotline that Stockholm clubs were an "inappropriate" environment for wheelchairs. https://www.thelocal.se/20110503/33548 Tue, 03 May 2011 13:43:00 +0200 33548 A Swedish government agency has issued a report revealing that the most popular social media sites continue to present accessibility problems for users with handicaps. https://www.thelocal.se/20110211/31980 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 11:35:00 +0100 31980 A 17-year-old girl from Malmö in southern Sweden has been convicted for selling the sexual services of a 14-year-old mentally disabled girl. The 20-year-old man suspected of masterminding the pimping operation was acquitted. https://www.thelocal.se/20100104/24190 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:57:00 +0100 24190 Four people who forced an armless man from Ukraine to beg in the Stockholm metro were handed prison sentences on Friday. https://www.thelocal.se/20090131/17276 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 09:55:00 +0100 17276 A disabled Ukrainian man, 28, was forced to beg for money on Stockholm's metro and in other countries by five people now charged for abduction and human trafficking. https://www.thelocal.se/20081206/16172 Sat, 06 Dec 2008 11:34:00 +0100 16172 A 65-year-old male care giver was charged on Wednesday in Borås District Court in western Sweden for forcibly shaving the pubic hair of a handicapped woman, writes the Expressen newspaper. https://www.thelocal.se/20080430/11460 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:33:00 +0200 11460