Sweden
Sweden regularly reports hate crime data to ODIHR. Sweden's criminal law contains a general penalty enhancement provision. Sweden includes defamation, hate speech and discrimination crimes in its data. Hate crime data are collected by the National Council for Crime Prevention and are based on information from the police and the prosecution authority. Since 2012, the number of hate crime cases is estimated based on a statistical sample of police reports. Since 2016, hate crime reports are published only every second year. Three different victimization surveys, used to measure unreported hate crime, are conducted regularly at one, two and three-year intervals, respectively.
OFFICIAL DATA
Year | Hate crimes recorded by police | Prosecuted | Sentenced |
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2020 | 3150 | 334 | Not available |
2019 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2018 | 5858 | 218 | - |
2017 | Not available | Not available | Not available |
2016 | 4862 | 257 | Not available |
2015 | 4859 | 255 | Not available |
2014 | 4258 | 279 | Not available |
2013 | 3943 | 161 | Not available |
2012 | 5518 | 344 | Not available |
2011 | 5493 | 347 | Not available |
2010 | 5139 | 440 | Not available |
2009 | 5797 | 450 | Not available |
INCIDENTS REPORTED BY OTHER SOURCES
Kantor Center reported only statistical data. This explains the discrepancy between the graphic above and the incidents included below.
Racist and xenophobic hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2019-08 | Violent attacks against people | UNHCR
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Anti-Roma hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2019-11 | Attacks against property | OSCE Office for Democratic Institution and Human Rights
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Anti-Christian hate crime
Date | Type of incident | Source | Description |
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2019-06 | Attacks against property | OIDAC
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INTERNATIONAL REPORTS
Racist and xenophobic hate crime, Anti-Muslim hate crime
The United Nations Human Rights Council Working Group on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) published relevant recommendations in its "Report from the thirty-fifth session: Compilation on Sweden."
Anti-Roma hate crime
The EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) published relevant recommendations in its 2019 Roma and Travellers Survey findings, "Roma and Travellers in six countries."
KEY OBSERVATION
ODIHR observes that Sweden has not reported information on the sentencing of hate crime cases to ODIHR.