Sweden’s government is stepping up efforts at the United Nations to change the rules for deporting convicted rapists with refugee status.
Migration Minister Johan Forssell is in New York seeking international backing for a Swedish initiative to reinterpret the UN Refugee Convention. The government argues that current rules make it too difficult to expel individuals convicted of rape, as the threshold for what qualifies as a particularly serious crime remains too high. Forssell said it was “terribly unjust” that convicted rapists can avoid deportation by invoking refugee protections.
