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Iran expert Rouzbeh Parsi is stopped from participating in this year’s People and Defense conference.

Parsi, who is a program director at the Foreign Policy Institute, has been accused of doing business with the Iranian regime – and several youth associations have threatened to drop out of the conference if he attends.

Now People and Defense have decided to port him from the event.

– It was a very difficult decision to make. Folk og försvar’s board does not make an assessment of the views on the Iran issue, but has established that there are very strong opinions and public opinion about Parsi, says chairman Göran Arrenius and continues:

– When affiliates choose not to come because of his participation, we believe that there is too great a risk that we lose focus on the conference and that we lose our important members.

Special Prosecutor’s Chamber has decided to open an investigation into bribery after police chief Rickard Finndahl’s hunting trip to Leif GW Persson, SR’s reports P4 Jönköping.

It was during the investigation of the suspected murder of 21-year-old Tove in Vetlanda that Finndahl agreed to a hunting trip that GW – who had just commented on the Tove investigation in the media – invited to.

Finndahl has since been accused of leaking classified information to GW. Read more about the event here.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizes on behalf of the Netherlands for the slavery practiced in the country’s former colonies.

It writes The Telegraph.

The statement comes in connection with next year being 150 years since slavery was abolished in the country.

– The government wants to work for increased awareness, recognition and understanding in consultation with all groups and all countries with which we share history. It is a process that will take time and work that can only be carried out in the community, says Rutte.

A number of ministers have traveled to the former colonies of Suriname, Aruba, Bonaire, Curaçao, Saba, Sint Eustatius and Sint Maarten to convey the government’s message on the spot.

Rutte also highlighted the connections between slavery and contemporary racist structures.

– I thought for a long time that slavery in the past is history, something that is behind us. But I was wrong, says the Prime Minister, according to De Telegraf.

The police have been alerted that a person in Malmö had a wall over him.

A rescue operation is now underway and the extent of the damage is unclear.

– We have just arrived at the scene, Patric Fors, press spokesperson for police region South.

The police have been alerted to an attempted rape in Västeråsen in Borås.

The attempted rape took place outdoors and the police are now searching the area with the help of, among other things, a police dog.

So far, no one has been arrested.

The police are also asking for witnesses who may have seen something in the area around Västeråsen around 1:30 p.m.

Almondy’s classic almond cake with Daim is being recalled.

The reason is that a metal object was found in one of the cakes, writes the Swedish Food Agency.

– At Almondy, quality and safety are our highest priority. We take the incident very seriously and as a precautionary measure we are therefore recalling the product as above. We have identified what measures we need to take to avoid this happening again, says Margareta Johannesson, Quality Director at Almondy in a press release.

The recall only applies to Almondy Almond Cake with Daim 400g, purchased at IKEA stores, with best before date: 18.11.2023 and LOT number L2140.

Police reports, suspected fraud and closed investigations are shaking the top management of the police.

Now Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) announces that the external investigation must be accelerated. He is said to have been informed of this during a meeting with National Police Chief Anders Thornberg on Monday morning:

– We agree that for several reasons it is unfortunate if this investigation drags on, says Strömmer at a press conference.

– Now it is the end of February that applies.

Read more about the police scandal here.

City traffic and regional bus traffic throughout Halland county are canceled until further notice. This is stated by Hallandstrafiken’s press manager Peter Gyllander, reports P4 Halland.

The reason is the slippage.

– We have probably never experienced such a slippage as it is now, says Peter Gyllander.

During the day, there is a yellow warning for sudden ice slippage in northern parts of Götaland, Svealand and southern Norrland.

The government has decided to establish a new council within the Ministry of Justice to crack down on organized crime.

Minister of Justice Gunnar Stömmer (M) announces this at a press conference.

The aim is to streamline the collective work with greatly increased resources and new effective forms of collaboration.

The focus is on expanding the possibilities for information exchange between the law enforcement authorities and the executive and legislative authorities, according to Strömmer.

The council is 18 months long.

– These are ground-breaking measures and where we are pushing up the pace of legislative work, says Gunnar Strömmer, at the press conference.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has landed in Minsk ahead of the meeting with Belarusian President Alexandr Lukashenko, writes Dagbladet and refers to Russian media.

Putin is there to talk with Lukashenko about, among other things, security and the economy.

According to Bloomberg, it is Putin’s first visit to the country in over three years.

The number of corona cases is increasing and the Västra Götaland region is now introducing new recommendations as a result of the infection, reports GP.

Visitors to healthcare are now asked to use a mouth guard.

Staff who work within the region are also asked to only hold gatherings that are infection-proof.

However, fewer now than before during the pandemic become seriously ill from the virus.