Can Sweden’s new terror law be used to stop an anti-Nato demonstration?

June 2, 2023   

(Local) Turkish officials are demanding that Sweden’s new terror law be applied to an anti-Nato demonstration this coming weekend. What does the law cover, and can it be used to stop a protest?

Turkey wants Sweden to stop the demonstration on June 4th as it believes that it will be attended by members of the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), who are classed as a terror organisation by the EU, the US and Turkey, among other countries.

In a tweet, Fahrettin Altun, a spokesperson for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, wrote that Turkey “sincerely hopes” that Sweden’s new anti-terror law, which came into force on June 1st, will be properly enforced.

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