1 天前 · Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant who set off protests in Sweden and several Muslim countries when he burned a Quran in Stockholm in 2023, has been killed, the Swedish Prosecution Authority said ...

1 天前 · Momika came from the Al-Hamdaniya district of Qaraqosh, a town in the northern Iraqi province of Nineveh. [1] He was an ethnic Assyrian and raised as a Syriac Catholic. [2] [3]In 2017, Momika fled to Germany with a Schengen visa, where he announced his atheism and apostasy from Christianity. [3] In April 2018, Momika applied for a refugee visa to Sweden, and he was since then, registered as an ...

1 天前 · STOCKHOLM (AP) — An Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings in Sweden has been killed in a shooting near Stockholm, authorities said Thursday.. Salwan Momika, 38, staged several burnings and desecrations of Islam’s holy book in Sweden in 2023. Videos of the Quran burnings got worldwide publicity and raised anger and criticism in several Muslim nations, leading to riots and unrest ...

23 小时之前 · 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. A spokesperson for Sweden’s prosecutor ...

1 天前 · Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told the BBC. Unrest broke out after Mr Momika set fire to a copy of Islam's holy book ...

1 天前 · Momika, an Iraqi activist who burned copies of the Quran at a string of protests in 2023, was shot just after 11pm on Wednesday night. Momika had been charged along with another activist, Salwan Najem, for "agitation against an ethnic or national group". Stockholm District Court had been scheduled to pass judgement at 11am on Thursday.

2 天之前 · The 38-year-old Salwan Momika, a Christian Iraqi, staged several desecrations and burnings of Islam's holy book. ... The Stockholm court where Momika was due to appear said a verdict had been ...

1 天前 · In August, Momika along with co-protester Salwan Najem, was charged with “agitation against an ethnic group” on four occasions in the summer of 2023. According to the charge sheet, the duo desecrated the Quran, including burning it, while making derogatory remarks about Muslims — on one occasion outside a Stockholm mosque.

1 天前 · Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Qur'an-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities.

1 天前 · The anti-Islam activist who sparked outrage and riots in Muslim-majority countries over his repeated Quran burnings in 2023 in Sweden, was killed on late Wednesday evening at his home, local media reported. Salwan Momika was set to stand trial over hate incitement charges on Thursday. A judge at the Stockholm District Court, Göran Lundahl, confirmed that the verdict was postponed to Feb. 3 ...