Mr. Rodríguez is a photojournalist who has reported extensively on incarceration, gangs, the police and re-entry. We used to believe in Sweden that the rights and well-being of children should ...

One recent case involved a boy of just 11 years old. Children are the ideal catspaw for Sweden’s gangs: those aged under 15 are too young to be prosecuted, a quirk of Swedish law that critics ...

It exists everywhere throughout Sweden,” Hanna Paradis, former head of the National special operation “Frigg” - a police initiative created in 2023 to combat rising gang violence – tells ...

Once seen as a peaceful Scandinavian welfare state, Sweden is becoming the European Union's gun-homicide capital as terrifying gangs bring death and terror to the ...

Sweden has been a European hotspot for gang-related shootings and bombings for several years. But recently the violence has shifted beyond low-income, vulnerable urban areas and police say one ...