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Sweden moves to toughen anti-terror laws

Sweden moves to toughen anti-terror laws

STOCKHOLM: Sweden's government on Thursday proposed new legislation to ban activities linked to extremist groups, in a move to toughen anti-terror laws, a key demand from Turkey to approve Stockholm's NATO bid.The proposed legislation widens the scope of activities that can be prosecuted.“This is a wider criminalisation that takes aim at a slew of activities within a terrorist organisation that don’t need to be concretely connected to a specific terrorist crime,“ Justice Minister Gunnar Strommer told a press conference.Actions such as handling equipment, organising camps or locations for meetings, cooking or being in charge of transport for designated terrorist organisations would be criminalised under the new law, which Strommer stressed was a “considerable widening of the scope compared to current legislation”.In November, the country amended its constitution to allow the proposed bill to move forward, as it was deemed to infringe on Sweden's freedom of association laws.The governmen

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