Jan. 30 (UPI) --An Iraqi living in Sweden who faced threats after burning the Koran in Stockholm in 2023 died in a shooting Wednesday, shortly before a verdict in his trial was about to be revealed.

Coskun later posted: 'While I was burning the Quran, I was attacked with a knife. The ambulance and the police came.' He earlier said he was going to London to burn the book 'for Salwan Momika ...

Salwan Momika, the Iraqi activist who carried out four Quran-burnings ... it was dropping its prosecution of one of two men accused of hate crimes for four Quran-burning incidents because the accused ...

(CNN) — Salwan Momika, an Iraqi man who sparked outrage by staging Quran-burning protests in Sweden in 2023, has been shot dead, according to Swedish authorities. A spokesperson for Sweden’s ...

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden. Salwan Momika was killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm, on Wednesday evening, prosecutors told ...

TASS/. Investigators have identified five suspects in the killing of Iraqi anti-Islam activist Salwan Momika over his burning of the Quran, the Swedish Prosecutor's Office announced on Thursday.

While the religion news cycle in the U.S. has been dominated lately with tensions between church and state (or at least a Trump administration), in Sweden religion news has centered on a different ...

Najem had been campaigning alongside Salwan Momika, who was involved in Quran-burning incidents. Momika was shot dead last week, on the same day he was due to receive a verdict in a separate case.

in connection with four Quran burning protests together with Salwan Momika in the summer of 2023 in Stockholm. Momika was also charged but was shot dead last Wednesday evening, a day before the ...

A man who sparked violent protests after burning the Quran has been shot dead in Sweden, according to local media reports. Salwan Momika, 38, is reported to have been killed in an apartment in ...