Salwan Momika, the Iraqi man who staged public burnings of the Koran in Sweden two years ago, has been shot dead, Swedish authorities said. (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency/AFP/Getty Images/File via ...

STOCKHOLM, Sweden — Five suspects in the killing of Salwan Momika, who in 2023 repeatedly burned copies of the Koran, have all been freed, a prosecutor handling the case in Sweden said Friday.

Salwan Momika, 38, an Iraqi refugee who had burned the Koran in public on several occasions, was shot dead in a house in Sodertalje town near Stockholm, and Sweden's prime minister on Thursday ...

(MENAFN) Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee known for publicly burning copies of the Quran, was shot and killed in his apartment in Södertälje, Sweden, reportedly while live-streaming on social media.

It comes just two days after Salwan Momika, a Swedish anti-Islam activist, was shot dead near Stockholm after he burned the Quran in 2023. Greater Manchester Police's Assistant Chief Constable ...

On January 29, Salwan Momika, the organizer of another public Quran-burning event in Sweden, was shot dead. Following the killing, the Danish Security and Intelligence Service and the Copenhagen ...

Prosecutor Rasmus Oman confirmed to AFP that an investigation had been opened into the murder of 38-year-old Salwan Momika and that five people had been arrested. "We're in the very early stages ...

After the assassination this week of Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian who was famous in Sweden for publicly burning the Koran, she wrote to her 89,000 followers on X: “Some of you may disagree ...

Salwan Momika, who set fire to an Islamic holy book in 2023, died in an apartment near the capital, Stockholm.

Posts accompanying the video on X said the act was carried out 'in solidarity' with Salwan Momika. He sparked unrest when he set fire to a copy of The Quran outside Stockholm Central Mosque in ...