Sweden

On Tuesday, the Swedish government announced plans to strengthen criminal penalties before the September election. The legislation aims to encourage courts to assign harsher sentences and to impose longer durations …

Sweden’s centre-right government has announced plans to significantly tighten its citizenship requirements, extending the minimum residency period and introducing stricter economic and cultural conditions for applicants. Under the proposed rules, …

Sweden’s Foreign Minister, Maria Malmer Stenergard, has renewed her country’s demand for the release of Swedish citizen Gui Minhai, who has been imprisoned in China since 2020. Speaking after a …