Salwan Momika speaks in Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2023. Credit: AP/Johan Nilsson. By The Associated PressUpdated January 30, 2025. Share. STOCKHOLM — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi anti-Islam activist who burnt the Quran in 2023 in Sweden, sparking massive outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead in Sweden, the Associated Press reported on ...

Salwan Momika speaks in Malmö, Sweden, Sept. 30, 2023. Credit: AP/Johan Nilsson. By The Associated PressJanuary 31, 2025. Share. STOCKHOLM — Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered ...

(CNN) — 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.

Sweden convicts Quran burner, days after co-protester Salwan Momika’s assassination He was handed a suspended sentence, which in Sweden means that if he were to commit another crime during a two ...

Salwan Momika burned Qurans at a slew of protests, was guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, who was shot dead late Wednesday in Sweden, stoked international controversy ...

Salwan Momika, 38, ... without naming sources, that the victim was Momika. It said Momika came to Sweden from Iraq in 2018 and was granted a three-year residence permit in 2021.

In Sweden, too, where both Salwan Momika and another individual, the far-right Danish politician Rasmus Paludan, repeatedly burned copies of the Quran, there have been mature responses from Muslims.

Salwan Momika, a former Iraqi militia leader who burnt the Quran several times, was reportedly shot dead at his apartment in Sweden. However, there is no official confirmation in this regard.

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told the ...

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — 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.