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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Staff and agencies in Stockholm

Russia ‘using disinformation’ to imply Sweden supported Qur’an burnings

A Yemeni holds up a copy of the Koran.
Tensions have flared between Sweden and several Middle Eastern nations after an Iraqi refugee staged two protests in which he desecrated the Qur’an. Photograph: Yahya Arhab/EPA

Sweden has been the target of a disinformation campaign by “Russia-backed actors” attempting to damage the image of the Nato candidate country by implying it supported recent burnings of the Qur’an, its government has said.

“Sweden is right now the target of influence campaigns, supported by states and state-like actors, whose purpose is to harm Sweden and Swedish interests,” the prime minister, Ulf Kristersson, wrote on Instagram on Wednesday.

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