(Brussels Times) The Swedish government published on Friday the directives for an inquiry to review the Public Order Act and the possibility to limit public gatherings and demonstrations that might pose a threat to its security.
The directives were first announced in a joint op-ed in Dagens Nyheter by Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson and the party leaders of his two coalition partners. The minister of justice, Gunnar Strömmer, presented them later at a press conference on Friday afternoon. The issue of the Quran burnings that are taking place in Sweden continues to be excluded from any new legislation.
“Some want to re-introduce the crime of blasphemy or change the law on incitement against population groups in order to prohibit in practice desecration of religious scriptures,” they wrote.
