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Sweden: Moroccan-Swede singer wins Eurovision Song Contest   Via NPR : Sweden's Loreen clinched the top spot at this year's Eurovision Song Contest with her dance hit "Euphoria," pushing aside competition from a sextet of Russian grannies and a Serbian balladeer. Juries and television viewers from across Europe awarded Loreen a total of 372 points, handing her an easy win in an event that ended in the early hours Sunday in host country Azerbaijan. Sweden will take over hosting duties next year. Softly spoken Loreen, a 28-year-old of Moroccan-Berber descent, thanked her fans for their support. ( source )

Sweden: Proposed legislation to outlaw forced marriages Via The Local : Anyone in Sweden who forces someone else to get married against their will can be sent to prison, according to proposed legislation presented Thursday which aims to criminalize forced marriages. "We want to criminalize child marriage and forced marriage. It should also be a punishable offence to take a child out of the country and marry them off there," G�ran Lambertz, who heads the government inquiry tasked with drawing up new legislation, told Sveriges Television (SVT). ( source )

Sweden: PM slammed for 'ethnic Swedes' comment Via the Local : Swedish prime minister Fredrik Reinfeldt is facing a storm of criticism from several quarters after using the term "ethnic Swedes" in response to a question about Sweden's high level of unemployment. �It is not correct to describe Sweden as a country in a situation of mass-employment. If one looks at ethnic Swedes at the prime of their life, we have very low unemployment,� Reinfeldt said to a reporter from news agency TT on Monday. (...) Reinfeldt's choice of words soon kicked off a political firestorm with commentators on both sides of the political spectrum questioning his use of the term "ethnic Swedes" and speculating as to what he might have meant. ( source )

Sweden: Mosques advise women not to report abusive husbands Via the Local : Six out of ten mosques in Sweden gave women advice about how to deal with spousal abuse and polygamy that contradicted Swedish law, a media investigation has revealed. Using hidden cameras and telephone recording equipment, two women posing as abused spouses visited ten of Sweden's largest mosques as part of a report put together by Sveriges Television (SVT) investigative news programme "Uppdrag granskning". The women then asked leaders at the mosques for advice about how to address issues such as polygamy, assault and non-consensual sex. Six out of the ten mosques visited by the women, who had also claimed that their husbands had multiple wives, told them that they should nevertheless agree to have sex with their husbands even if they didn't want to. Six of the mosques also advised the women against reporting spousal abuse to the police. Leaders at another mosque were divided on the issue, wh...

Sweden: City slammed for 'special treatment' of Muslim kids Via the Local : A Swedish school district has sparked outrage for striking a deal with local Muslim groups ensuring Muslim students can skip out on overnight class trips and Muslim girls don't have to be naked when showering at school. "My first reaction after reading was total shock: how can schools so casually force children into more segregation and social exclusion?" women's and equal rights activist Bahareh Andersson wrote on the Swedish opinion website Newsmill. Her comments came in response to reading a document outlining an agreement between education officials in J�nk�ping municipality and local Muslim groups ensuring special treatment for Muslim children enrolled in area schools. "It's not only about exceptions for food, but it's also about an exception from human rights. Children learning from an early age that gender segregation is something natural and that love without marri...

Sweden: 'Immigrant kids need more schooling' Via the Local : The Swedish government has revealed a new directive aimed at improving immigrant students� education and integration into Sweden, revolving around longer compulsory schooling and a shift in lesson priorities. (...) Key issues regarding these foreign students, who make up nine percent of Sweden�s primary school student population, revolved around how to integrate the children and raise the quality of their education by considering lesson priorities and additional compulsory schooling. �For recently arrived children, schooling is the key to integration. Students today are older when they come to Sweden. It puts greater demands on the Swedish schools that receive them,� wrote the government in the statement. Only 63 percent of the foreign-born students passed their final high school exams in 2010, a trend the government indicated is worsening.  ( source )

Malmo: Man charged with shooting immigrants Via the BBC : A Swedish man accused of shooting immigrants in the city of Malmo has been charged with three accounts of murder and 12 accounts of attempted murder. Peter Mangs, 40, was arrested following a tip-off from a member of the public and months of investigation. Chief prosecutor Solveig Wollstad says the motive for the attacks is not clear but most of the victims had a foreign background. The suspect denies any wrongdoing.  ( source )

Sweden: 'Smarter' immigrants coming Via the Local : Non-European immigrants are arriving in Sweden with increasingly higher levels of education, according to a new study, although fewer highly-educated immigrants are arriving from Europe and the Nordic countries. While only 31 percent of immigrants who arrived in Sweden prior to 1991 had some form of post-secondary education, 44 percent of immigrants who moved to Sweden after 2002 have some form of higher education. The figures come from a comprehensive survey of the level of education of people in Sweden carried out by Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyr�n � SCB).  ( source )

Sweden: Six convicted in 'honour' beating with metal rods For more on this story, see here . Via the Local : 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. (...) According to the prosecutor, the men wanted to protect the daughter in their family after an alleged kidnapping attempt. The young woman�s father was convicted of aggravated assault and sentenced to four years in prison. His three sons were all convicted of attempted murder and two will serve time in prison, two received 6 year sentences and the third 5.5 years. The two sons with the longer sentence will also be deported from Sweden after having served their time and not allowed back for at least ten years. The man who owned the gym where the beating took place was also convicted to 2.5 years in prison while his 19-year-old son will serve one year. ( source )