Swedish Hate-Speech Verdict Reversed
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PARIS, Feb. 11 -- A Swedish appeals court on Friday overturned the conviction of a Pentecostal pastor found guilty of violating the country's strict hate-speech law with a sermon that labeled homosexuality "a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society" and equated it with pedophilia.
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A 31-year-old man is found guilty of stirring up race hate during a protest against cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.
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STOCKHOLM: The confessed killer of Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh had his life sentence confirmed by the Supreme Court yesterday after he appealed for leniency saying he was mentally ill when he stabbed her.
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A judge said it would be wrong to suggest London Mayor Ken Livingstone was &quot;anti-Semitic&quot; at the start of a hearing into whether Livingstone's Nazi jibe to a Jewish journalist warranted a one-month suspension.
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BELGRADE, Serbia-Montenegro - Serbia reversed an order to ban Darwinâs theory of evolution from schools on Thursday, after its education minister drew national ridicule for ruling in favor of Old Testament âcreationism.
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Indonesia&#39;s Supreme Court has overturned a conviction against the former governor of East Timor, over bloodshed that swept the territory when it split from Jakarta in 1999.
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Voting irregularities, it appears The Swedish Institute of Standards (SIS) has invalidated the vote that controversially approved the OOXML standard at a meeting this week.â¦
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A bid to amend plans to make inciting racial hatred a crime is defeated by the government.
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The Court of Appeal quashes the convictions of five young Muslim men jailed over extremist literature.
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Belgium's high court on Tuesday upheld a ruling which condemned the far-right Flemish Bloc party for referring to immigrants in racists terms and distributing racist literature.
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Sweden&#39;s Supreme Court Thursday issued an irreversible life sentence to Mijailo Mijailovic for fatally stabbing Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh.
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A Swedish pastor convicted of hate crimes for a sermon denouncing homosexuals as a "cancer" was acquitted Friday by an appeals court that said he was protected by the country's free speech laws.
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As the court case between US Internet giant Yahoo and a French group trying to halt the online sales of Nazi memorabilia entered a new phase this week, experts gathered here stressed how difficult it was to regulate hate speech on the Internet.
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A Russian court convicted a Siberian  scientist of spying at a retrial on Friday, overturning his  earlier acquittal that had sparked the anger of the FSB state  security forces.
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Sweden's center-right opposition alliance declared victory Sunday after nearly complete official results showed it narrowly defeating the governing Social Democrats in parliamentary elections. Swedish Prime Minister Goran Persson conceded defeat and said his government would resign.
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'Thought crime' verdict overturned Five British muslim students jailed for downloading extremist material from the internet were released today, after the Appeal Court ruled their convictions were unsafe.â¦
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Sweden's new Prime Minister ended 12 years of social democratic rule in Sunday's elections and now looks set to cut short an even older tradition.