COVID-19 deaths occurred disproportionately among older people and in immigrant communities. Despite the pandemic, authorities carried out hundreds of evictions.

On 19 January 2011, Swedish police confirmed that Sweden had forcibly returned 20 Iraqis to Baghdad, on a charter flight organized with Danish authorities, who also forcibly returned a further six Iraqis. Amnesty International considers that their lives could be at real risk in Iraq.

Amnesty International has received credible reports that the Swedish authorities are planning to forcibly return several individuals whose asylum claims have been rejected to Baghdad, Iraq, on 19 January 2011. Their lives could be at real risk in Iraq.

On 31 October, a representative of the United Nations’ Committee Against Torture (CAT) requested that Sweden does not return Terhas Mlash Abraha to Eritrea whilst the CAT is considering her case. She was released from detention on the same day and there is no present risk that she will face forced...

The Swedish authorities are preparing to forcibly return asylum-seeker Terhas Mlash Abraha to Eritrea, where she would be at risk of arbitrary detention and torture because she evaded compulsory military service; and also for seeking asylum abroad, which the Eritrean authorities regard as betrayal...

As had been feared, Jamil Burhan was deported from Sweden to Eritrea on 15 April 2008, despite protests from Amnesty International, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and others.

The Swedish authorities are once again preparing to deport asylum-seeker Jamil Burhan to Eritrea, where he would be at risk of being detained and tortured. According to his lawyers, the Eritrean embassy in Sweden has now issued the necessary travel documents to allow Jamil Burhan to be sent to...

The Swedish authorities are preparing to deport asylum-seeker Jamil Burhan to Eritrea, where he would be at real risk of being detained and tortured simply for having applied for asylum, which the authorities regard as betraying the country. Sweden is a state party to a number of international...

Egyptian national Hanan Attia and her five children have been granted permanent residence in Sweden. They had claimed asylum upon arrival in the country in September 2000.

The Swedish authorities have rejected an application from Hanan Attia and her five children to remain in Sweden. Amnesty International is concerned that the authorities may soon begin deportation proceedings. Amnesty International is concerned that Hanan Attia would be at risk of serious human...

The Swedish authorities announced that on 23 January, the two Egyptians, Muhammad Muhammad Suleiman Ibrahim El-Zari and Ahmed Hussein Mustafa Kamil Agiza, who were forcibly returned from Sweden to Egypt on 18 December 2001, were visited by the Swedish ambassador to Egypt in Mazra’at Tora Prison,...

The Swedish Migration Board has suspended the expulsion order against Hanan Ahmed Fouad ‘Abd al-Khaleq and her five children. Their decision, announced on 18 January 2002, followed a request by the United Nations Committee against Torture that they not be returned to Egypt until the whereabouts and...

Hanan Ahmed Fouad ‘Abd al-Khaleq has gone into hiding with her five children, fearing that the Swedish authorities are about to forcibly return them to Egypt. She has submitted a complaint to the United Nations Committee against Torture., arguing that Sweden has violated her rights under the...