STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A Swedish appeals court on Monday partially acquitted a far-right activist convicted in 2022 of hate crimes against Muslims over statements he made whilst burning the Koran, and suspended his four-month prison sentence.

The Skane and Blekinge appeal court acquitted Rasmus Paludan of one of two charges, ruling he had criticised Islam as an idea, and not its followers. It suspended his sentence and fined him 50 daily fines of 50 crowns ($5.31).

Denmark and Sweden were at the time experiencing a series of public protests where lone anti-Islam activists burned or otherwise damaged copies of the Koran, prompting outrage in the Muslim world and demands that the Nordic governments ban such acts.

A citizen of both Denmark and Sweden, Paludan has several times set Islam’s ho

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