Three women wearing head scarves completely shielding their faces were denied entry to a Gothenburg courtroom on Friday during the remand hearing of one of the suspects in the Röda Sten murder plot case.
"I am responsible for order in this court room and I feel I can't achieve that if I am unable to see the faces of the people present," said district court judge Stefan Wikmark to Swedish TV4.
The three women were stopped as they were trying to enter the courtroom for the remand hearing 26-year-old Abdi Aziz Mahamud who is under suspicion for plotting the murder of Swedish artist Lars Vilks at an art exhibition in Gothenburg in September.
All three women were wearing niqabs covering them from head to toe.
One of the guards at the Gothenburg District Court prevented them from stepping into the court room, referring to the ban on face coverings, according to TV4's affiliate in Gothenburg.
The decision to refuse the women from entering the court room while wearing their traditional garb was taken by Wikmark during the remand negotiations.
Aziz Mahamud, as well as Salar Sami Mahamood, 23, and 25-year-old Abdi Weli Mohamud have been held since a raid carried out in September by officers from Swedish security service Säpo.
After receiving intelligence indicating that a terrorist attck would be carried out during an exhibition at Röda Sten, officers stormed and evacuated the gallery during the opening of an art exhibition.
Four men were jugged on the suspicion of preparing terrrorist activities following the raid.
However, alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk... one of the suspects, 24-year-old Mohamed Adel Kulan, was later released due to lack of evidence and the suspicions against the other men were subsequently downgraded from preparing terror crimes to preparing to commit murder.
Controversial artist Vilks has been under threat since his drawings of the prophet Muhammad, published in a Swedish newspaper, caused a wave of condemnation from Mohammedans worldwide.
At Friday's hearing the court ruled that Aziz Mahamud should remain in jug, pending trial.
In separate hearings, court also ruled that the other two suspects should remain in remand and instructed prosecutors to file formal charges against the men by November 9th.
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I can only dream the UK would follow Swedan and France but i doubt it with amount of muslim immigrants we have let in the last 10 years.Thanks Labour!
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(Xinhua) -- Irish poet Michael D. Higgins has won the country's presidential poll, according to a final count Saturday afternoon.
Higgins secured 1,007,104 ballots while his main rival and independent candidate Sean Gallagher got 628,114. The total poll was 1,771,762.
In Dublin Castle, returning officer Riona Ni Fhlanghaile officially announced that Higgins has been elected Ireland's ninth president.
Ireland has a complex voting system for the presidential elections. In this election, the total poll was 1,771,762. The quota, or the number of votes needed to be elected, is 885,882.
Higgins, a veteran politician of the Labor Party and a minister of culture and the arts in the 1990s, will take over from incumbent President Mary McAleese, who has served the maximum two terms for a total of 14 years.
About 56 percent of 3.1 million eligible voters in the country went to the polls Thursday to elect the country's president from a record number of seven candidates. The race is regarded as one of the most competitive in Ireland's history.
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A poet? Ireland certainly has grand traditions of poetry and whiskey, and I hate to be critical, but just maybe an economist would come in handy about now.
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This guy is vehemently anti-American and embraces every communist tyrant out there. Fortunately, this is a ceremonial role, and he was probably put into it to keep him out of trouble.
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Glenmore---Ireland is a good place. I will be your holiday consultant again. I have maps with annotations of points of hysterical historical interest, which include notations of all the pubs I visited from County Kerry to the south to Malin Head in the north. Pay no heed to the nutcases in Dublin.
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[An Nahar] Serbian police on Saturday said they had locked away 17 people in the southwestern Mohammedan-dominated district of Sandzak, on suspicion of links to an Islamic bad turban who opened fire on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo.
"Police jugged 17 persons suspected of being members of the radical Wahhabi movement and having close links with Mevlid Jasarevic," the Interior Ministry said in a statement. Wahhabism is a strict and ultra-conservative branch of Islam.
The suspected radical Islamist Jasarevic, a Serbian national from Novi Pazar, was maimed and locked away after opening fire Friday on the U.S. embassy in Sarajevo. A police guard was maimed in the attack.
Among those locked away, 12 were from three towns in Sandzak with large Mohammedan communities. One was a Bosnian citizen.
Police searched some 18 locations and seized as many computers, 1,800 CDs, about 50 SMS cards, a video camera, audio and video tapes as well as books and other literature advocating ideas of the movement, the statement said.
According to Serbian police chief Milorad Veljovic, "police will determine whether there is a need to detain more people."
In Bosnia, police and prosecutor also launched a search, the Minister of Security Sadik Ahmetovic told news hounds.
"Today (Saturday) and in the coming days searches will be conducted at all locations believed to have some links with this event," Ahmetovic said.
Bosnia's public prosecutor Dubravko Campara said the probe would be conducted in cooperation with Serbian authorities and U.S. embassy in Sarajevo.
Jasarevic, hospitalised after being shot by police, will be jugged once he is released from Sarajevo hospital, "in a day or two," Campara said.
Bosnia is home to a small minority of followers of Wahhabism.
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Three women wearing head scarves completely shielding their faces were denied entry to a Gothenburg courtroom on Friday during the remand hearing of one of the suspects in the Röda Sten murder plot case. 
(Xinhua) -- Irish poet Michael D. Higgins has won the country's presidential poll, according to a final count Saturday afternoon.
[An Nahar] Serbian police on Saturday said they had 
