Swedish court jails far-right politician for insulting Muslims

Rasmus Paludan pictured in 2019 (Henning Bagger/Ritzau via AP)

A Swedish court has sentenced a far-right politician to four months in jail for two counts of “incitement against an ethnic group” after he made comments at political rallies two years ago.

The Danish-Swedish 42-year-old man, who was not named but has been identified by Swedish media as Rasmus Paludan, founder and head of the Danish nationalist anti-immigration party Stram Kurs, had been previously convicted and sentenced by a Danish court on a similar charge, the Malmo District Court said.