His friend who protested with him, Salwan Momika, was murdered in January in the wake of the incident.

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, an Iraqi Christian asylum-seeker, was shot in an apartment in Stockholm after he burned a copy of the Koran.

Salwan Momika, 38, was an Assyrian Catholic who fled to Sweden several years ago. Back in 2023, he arranged for several burnings of Islam's scripture and videoed them in open protest of how this book ...

Police investigating Sweden's worst mass shooting were still trying to establish a motive as to why a lone gunman opened fire at an education campus in the southern city of Orebro, killing 10 people.

The verdict came just days after the man's co-defendant Salwan Momika, a 38-year-old Iraqi Christian, was shot dead late Wednesday in an apartment southwest of Stockholm. The Stockholm district court ...

Swedish prosecutors said Friday they have ordered the release of five men who were arrested after the fatal shooting of an Iraqi man who carried out several Quran burnings. Salwan Momika staged ...

Salwan Momika, known for Quran-burning protests in Sweden, was killed in Stockholm. Five arrests have been made. His actions had sparked global outrage and debates on freedom of speech. Swedish ...

Tensions Rise: Swedish Koran Burner Killed Amidst Trial Controversy Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee known for burning the Koran, was shot dead in Sweden just before a trial verdict. Authorities ...

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee residing in Sweden since 2018, gained international attention in 2023 after publicly burning copies of the Quran, including an incident outside Stockholm’s Central ...