Sweden
2026
STATUSAbolitionist
EXECUTIONS 20260
SENTENCES0
- GOVERNMENT
- constitutional monarchy
- CONSTITUTION
- January 1, 1975
- LEGAL SYSTEM
- civil law with influences from customary norms
- LEGISLATIVE SYSTEM
- unicameral, Parliament (Riksdag)
- JUDICIAL SYSTEM
- Supreme Court (judges appointed by the Government)
RELIGIONS
87% Lutherans, 13% other
From the country
JULY 14, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden. The Stockholm District Court sentenced Hamid Noury to life
For “serious crimes against international law” and "murder"
MAY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Wife of Djalali pleads for EU action
Vida Mehrannia
MAY 21, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - The wife of Ahmadreza Djalali called on the European Union to intervene
MAY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights for Djalali
- MAY 4, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sweden. Ahmadreza Djalali at Imminent Risk of Execution
The international community should react in time
MAY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden. Iran summoned Sweden’s ambassador
following a request by Swedish prosecutors for life imprisonment for Hamid Noury
- APRIL 9, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ahmadreza Djalali Beaten by Evin Prison Officials
MARCH 10, 2022SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Sweden renunciates to try two suspected Iranian secret agents
MARCH 30, 2021SwedenDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Calls to release Swedish-Iranian scientist Djalali
From Sweden and Germany
JANUARY 13, 2021SwedenDEATH PENALTYPOLAND: SWEDISH LI ZHIHUI COULD FACE DEATH PENALTY IF EXTRADITED TO CHINA
Swedish Falun Gong activist Li Zhihui, 53, risks being extradited to China after he has been detained in Poland for almost two years.
- JANUARY 1, 2020SwedenDEATH PENALTY
Sweden abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes in 1921 and has been abolitionist for all crimes since 1972.
Sweden abolished capital punishment for ordinary crimes in 1921 and has been abolitionist for all crimes since 1972.
JULY 10, 2019SwedenDEATH PENALTYSWEDEN: SUPREME COURT REJECTS CHINA'S EXTRADITION REQUEST OF FORMER OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF EMBEZZLEMENT
Sweden's Supreme Court said on 9 July 2019 it was refusing the extradition of a Chinese man accused of economic crimes because the man risks persecution and the death penalty in China.