A ‘jungle party’ which featured the sale of ‘slaves’ with blacked-up faced and ropes around their necks has led to two student associations at a Swedish university being reported for hate crimes. Read the full story

A Danish journalist who claimed that Muslim girls are raped by their male family members has declared a victory for free speech as he is acquitted of racism charges. Read the full story

A Swedish police chief has defended his decision to tell a joke about a black prostitute in front of 128 colleagues. Read the full story

Eric Gerhardsson, who was elected into the municipal council in Gallivare in Sunday’s Swedish parliamentary and local elections will abandon his party and his seat in the council. Gerhardsson was on the list for the extreme right party Sverigedemokraterna (the Sweden Democrats) but now claims that after having actually read through the party’s manifesto he feels that he has no choice but to leave, Dagens Nyheter reports. Read the full story

Thousands of people have taken to the streets of Stockholm to protest against the election to parliament of 20 far-right party members. The Sweden Democrats, who are against immigration and have been accused of racism, claimed 5.7 percent of the vote in Sunday’s elections, denying Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt’s centre-right Alliance a clear majority. Read the full story

Over a thousand people in Reykjavik took part in Saturday’s march in support of the father and son of Cuban origin who temporarily left Iceland a week ago due to racially motivated abuse. Read the full story

Following the shocking story of a father and son of Cuban origin who felt compelled to leave Iceland over racially motivated bullying and attacks this weekend, other stories are coming to light and the issue of racism has become a hot media topic. Read the full story

A father and son of Cuban origin felt it necessary to fly out of Iceland yesterday following a series of racially motivated attacks. Their family home was attacked twice on Saturday and they felt they were in real danger. Two men are being held by police. Read the full story

A politician has quit a far right party in Sweden after his blog, in which he claimed black Africans are genetically predisposed towards rape, caused outrage across the country. Per T K Wahlberg of the Sweden Democrats party has been forced to stand down from his position after claiming that people of African descent have been raping women and children for centuries. Read the full story

An anti-racism group in Denmark has criticised the government’s latest progress report to the UN, saying it is glossing over the country’s ongoing race issues. According to the Documentation and Advisory Centre on Racism, the paper does not contain enough case numbers and the overall study is incomplete. Read the full story