Momika, along with co-protester Salwan Najem, went on to stage several similar protests, in one instance outside Iraq's embassy in Stockholm -- although he refrained from burning it on that occasion.

Salwan Najem, an Islam critic whose fellow Qur'an-burning activist Salwan Momika was shot dead on January 29 in Stockholm, has been convicted of incitement against an ethnic group. According to ...

He died soon after in hospital. Momika was killed just hours before a Stockholm court was due to rule whether he and co-defendant Salwan Najem were guilty of inciting ethnic hatred. According to ...

Najem's fellow campaigner Salwan Momika, who was also involved in Quran-burning incidents, was shot dead last week. His shooting coincided with his scheduled verdict in a parallel case.

A man of Iraqi origin, who stirred outrage across the globe in 2023 by burning copies of the Quran, was shot dead inside his house on late Wednesday in Sweden, authorities confirmed. Swedish media ...

Salwan Momika, 38, the man notorious for burning the Quran outside a mosque in 2023, was shot dead in Sweden. Swedish media ...

The ruling comes less than a week after Najem’s fellow campaigner, Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika, was shot dead in an apartment right before he was due to receive his verdict in a parallel case.