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 Three men have been charged in southern Sweden for forcing a 23-year-old woman to marry a man in Afghanistan - after abducting her boyfriend in Sweden. https://www.thelocal.se/20160621/three-charged-in-swedens-first-forced-marriage-case Tue, 21 Jun 2016 09:00:06 +0200 three-charged-in-swedens-first-forced-marriage-case The 17-year-old boy from southern Sweden who stabbed his sister to death in April was sentenced to eight years in prison on Tuesday for what the court referred to as an "honour killing". https://www.thelocal.se/20130129/45882 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 13:08:00 +0100 45882 The murder trial of a 17-year-old boy suspected of fatally stabbing his 19-year-old sister more than 100 times with two knives and a pair of scissors started in southern Sweden on Monday. https://www.thelocal.se/20121126/44656 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:12:00 +0100 44656 A Stockholm-area professor charged with cutting off and eating his wife's lower lip has told investigators he planned to kill himself after the attack and that the decision to eat his wife's lip was made "spontaneously". https://www.thelocal.se/20120626/41650 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 10:52:00 +0200 41650 A prominent researcher at Sweden's Karolinska Instiutet is in custody for having cut off his wife's lips with a knife and then eating them. https://www.thelocal.se/20120530/41150 Thu, 31 May 2012 01:19:00 +0200 41150 Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, have been convicted and sentenced to prison after the severe honour-related beating of a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym. https://www.thelocal.se/20120419/40358 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:25:00 +0200 40358 A 15-year-old girl, taken into custody by social services last week, was removed on Sunday from her foster home by four armed men, one of which was her father. https://www.thelocal.se/20120208/39000 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:48:00 +0100 39000 Six men in Hallsberg, central Sweden, have been charged with the severe beating of a 19-year-old with metal rods at a gym in central Sweden, in an attack police believe to be honour-related. https://www.thelocal.se/20120130/38802 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:43:00 +0100 38802 Nearly 70,000 young Swedes feel they aren’t able to freely choose whom they want to marry, according to a new study, leading the report’s authors to propose Sweden outlaw forced arranged marriages altogether. https://www.thelocal.se/20090602/19820 Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:49:00 +0200 19820 Liberal party ministers Jan Björklund and Nyamko Sabuni have proposed a new schools law which removes the right to seek exemption from sexual education and swimming classes. https://www.thelocal.se/20090531/19778 Sun, 31 May 2009 12:46:00 +0200 19778 Surgical reconstructions of the hymen, a fold of skin found at a woman's vaginal opening, are being performed by both public and private practitioners in Stockholm, a new report shows. https://www.thelocal.se/20080729/13340 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:40:00 +0200 13340 Over the last few years, the number of people in Sweden who have been given a secret identity has increased dramatically. https://www.thelocal.se/20070318/6723 Sun, 18 Mar 2007 11:27:00 +0100 6723 A leading Swedish Liberal has called for all schoolgirls to undergo a gynecological check to see whether they have been circumcised. Nyamko Sabuni has also demanded a ban on headscarves for Muslim girls under 15 and for an end to state support for religious schools, as part of a program to tackle what she calls an honour culture. https://www.thelocal.se/20060717/4346 Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:14:00 +0200 4346