A person stole a Koran from a mosque near the French city of Lyon and set it on fire at the weekend, religious leaders and a police source said on Tuesday.

Criminalising Koran burning would be reintroducing blasphemy law, court told Hamit Coskun is on trial at Westminster Magistrates’ Court.

DISTRESSING livestream footage shows the moment a Swedish cop found the body of a Christian protester after he was shot dead. Iraqi Salwan Momika, 38, who notoriously staged several burnings of the… ...

An Iraqi man who burned copies of the Koran in Sweden has been killed in a shooting, Swedish authorities say. Swedish police said Salwan Momika was shot dead in a house in Sodertalje, a town near ...

An anti-Islam activist who burnt the Koran repeatedly in protest, sparking outrage in Muslim countries, has been shot dead.

STOCKHOLM - A Swedish court on Tuesday found a far-right activist guilty of two counts of hate crime against Muslims over statements he made while burning copies of the Koran, acts that triggered ...

Swedish prosecutors have charged a Swedish-Danish right-wing activist with inciting ethnic hatred by desecrating and burning a Koran in 2022.

Denmark and neighbouring Sweden became the focus of anger across several Muslim countries after a slew of protests involving burnings and desecrations of the Koran.

The Danish government said on Friday it was proposing legislation that would make it illegal to burn copies of the Koran in public places, part of the Nordic country's effort to de-escalate ...

Anti-Islam activists in Denmark and Sweden have burnt and damaged several copies of the Koran in recent months, prompting outrage in the Muslim world and demands the Nordic governments ban such acts.

Burning the Koran - why? Europe is too big to hide under a stone, but it could try to crawl under one. Op-ed.