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Is this Swedish government pamphlet a guide for men who have married underage girls?
For completeness, here is the full 4 page pamphlet together with an English translation:
Information to you who are married to a child
Child marriage is illegal in Sweden
In Sweden it is ...
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Do one quarter of Swedes named 'Ali' have a criminal record?
The short answer: the post uses invalid figures to support their claim "roughly 24 percent of all Alis in Sweden have a conviction". Furthermore, they are misrepresenting what their figures ...
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Do the Swedish police have a special code for immigrant crimes?
That there is a police code is true. The Swedish police use different codes for different types of work as a way to track, for instance, how much resources they use. Some examples of such police codes ...
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Do one quarter of Swedes named 'Ali' have a criminal record?
Schmuddi's answer notes that the Lexbase database only contains 4961 persons with Ali as one of their names. But if we read the Samhällsnytt article, we find that the number 9742 comes from the ...
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Has Sweden tripled its ICU capacity to fight Covid-19?
Exaggerated. According to Socialstyrelsen (the government agency in charge of the health care system), the intensive care capacity of regular hospitals has slightly more than doubled: From 526 places ...
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Did the killer of Arminas Pileckas face charges?
The incident was extensively covered in regular Swedish media. It seems undisputed that a Syrian 14 year old boy committed the crime, but there are conflicting reports about the background events ...
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Did Sweden experience lower all-cause mortality during the pandemic?
Sweden was not particularly good or bad on covid compared to Scandinavian peers, but it did better than some major developed countries
If we compare the cumulative covid death toll from trustworthy ...
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Have 8 out of 10 police officers in Sweden seriously considered quitting due to the danger?
According to a survey 3 of 4 (not quite the same a 8 of 10) police officers are considering changing job. But the main reason stated is that they are unhappy about the salary. Only 7% stated have ...
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Do one quarter of Swedes named 'Ali' have a criminal record?
There are so, so many statistical issues with this (as is expected with a release from a Russian propoganda outlet), but others have covered most of the most important ones....except one. The quote is:...
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Are 80% of migrant unaccompanied children in Sweden adults?
It's a distortion of reality. The origin is probably https://www.rmv.se/verksamheter/medicinska-aldersbedomningar/metoder/ where they describe the method used. The result of an examination is given in ...
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Are Swedish police banned from describing criminals?
An internal memo from the police is covered by a news paper article Får interna direktiv: Ange inte signalement. The article does not contain the entire memo, but it does cite a few key parts of it.
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Is Sweden 'the most dangerous country in Europe [EU] today' (when it comes to violent crime)?
The overall claim is most likely false
I am unable to find a complete data set for 2020, but data for 2018/2019 (Eurostat) indicates that if the claim is true it represents a dramatic shift from ...
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Was Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz fired because he revealed that migrant adults were fraudulently posing as children?
The Gateway Pundit does seem to imply that Herlitz was fired because he "revealed" that migrants are fraudulently posing as children.
However, their translation of the original article makes it clear ...
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Do Swedes believe climate change spending to be the biggest waste of taxpayer money in 2019?
Who made the claim?
To get to the source of this we have to introduce two organizations: Skattebetalarnas Förening and a related project Slöseriombundsmannen. Both links are in Swedish. I could not ...
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Was the person who was assaulted by ASAP Rocky a repeat violent offender?
Summary
The injured party is indeed named Mustafa Jafari, and he has a number of convictions but only one is for a violent crime (assault).
He can not be said to be a "repeat offender of violent ...
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Was there curfew in Tensta, Stockholm imposed by criminal gangs?
As requested in comments:
Your TV4 link is from 17 October. On 20 October Swedish Television reported "Information about curfews in Tensta exaggerated" using the lovely Swedish word ...
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Has Sweden beaten SARS-CoV-2 with herd immunity?
Data do not support achieving herd immunity in Sweden (at least as of August, 2020).
One article cites a seroprevalence of 20% or less [1]. This is nowhere near estimates to achieve herd immunity ...
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Did Sweden experience lower all-cause mortality during the pandemic?
It seems that the source of the recent news is a paywalled newspaper article in Swedish. It only compares some European countries so Australian media has probably added Australia themselves. The chart ...
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Do one quarter of Swedes named 'Ali' have a criminal record?
I'm not sure why you asked the question here, because the claim contains everything you need to verify it for yourself.
At the time of this posting, searching for the name "Ali" on Statistics Sweden (...
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Did Peter the Great just "return" lands that "belonged to Russia", in the Great Northern War?
Not that this claim over "belongs to" or "return" should matter that much for any argument in the present day, but of course this is rooted in historical fact, with a twist if you ...
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Was Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz fired because he revealed that migrant adults were fraudulently posing as children?
Part of the claim is that Herlitz was able to distinguish legal minors (i.e. under 18) from legal adults by examining their teeth.
Estimating age from the teeth has a long history. Here is a survey ...
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Did a refugee evade arrest by three female police officers in Sweden, as shown in this video?
The event took place in a housing complex for refugees on March 20th in Fagersjö, a suburb just outside Stockholm and received attention in main-stream media as well, e.g. in Dagens Nyheter, ...
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Was there curfew in Tensta, Stockholm imposed by criminal gangs?
Was there curfew in Tensta, Stockholm (or some other suburb) proclaimed by criminal gangs?
Yes, according to the police. No, according to SVT (but more about that later).
Summarizing from the article (...
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Does Sweden require a vaccination certificate for travel?
Sweden, which has had less COVID-19 restrictions than many countries, still uses a COVID-19 vaccine pass for travelling, attending indoor events and public gatherings.
--- see below for update per ...
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Did the killer of Arminas Pileckas face charges?
Thus far I've found a Lithuanian site claiming to have spoken with the family of the victim (they are Lithuanian migrants in Sweden): https://lietuvosdiena.lrytas.lt/aktualijos/prabilo-svedijoje-...
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Did Sweden experience lower all-cause mortality during the pandemic?
Regarding the SVD-based answer, there's slightly more to it:
Örjan Hemström, a statistician specialising in births and deaths at Sweden’s state statistics agency Statistics Sweden (SCB), put together ...
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Did Swedish tax rate ever exceed 100%?
Sweden had at most a record of 89.4% marginal tax in 1979 (Figure 1), the same year the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren wrote her fictional essay (in which the calculations do not add up because the ...
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