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whingeing that not enough lives are being wrecked by jailing men for buying sex in Sweden
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Thankfully Sweden's nasty, and soon 15-year-old, law that bans buying sex has not resulted in any convicted sex buyers spending time behind bars. In 2011, 'Justice' Minister Beatrice Ask previously raised the red flag about supposedly lenient
sentencing doled out in Swedish courts. In July 2012, the law was rewritten, allowing courts to send offenders to jail for a maximum of one year, rather than the six months previously allowed. Yet the rewrite has had little effect, noted Johan
Linander, Centre Party MP and vice-chairman of Riksdag Committee on 'Justice' (Justitieutskottet). He whinged to the Local: The courts make limited use of the range of sentencing available to them
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review of sentencing in the past few years by the Dagens Nyheter newspaper revealed that no one has been sentenced to prison for buying sex from an adult - neither before nor after the reform. We see that the courts use the lower quarter of
punishments with little variation, which is true for most crimes, not just sex purchases, said Linander, who has long argued that the punishments needed to be stricter. Social Democrat MEP Anna Hedh, said she was hesitant toward filling
Swedish prisons up with one-time offenders: BUT ... if you are a repeat offender, you should of course end up in jail.
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Nasty Swedish prime minister wants to increase penalties for buying sex
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| 17th December 2013
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Swedish Prime Minister, Fredrik Reinfeldt, says he wants to increase the sentences under the country's nasty law on prostitution, which criminalises the buyer. Currently, people buying sex can be fined or jailed for up to a year, but Reinfeldt said no
one has been sentenced to prison in 4,782 cases so far. |
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Sweden's gender extremists consider how best to further deprive men of the simple pleasures of life by jailing them
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| 14th February 2014
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Men who are prosecuted for paying prostitutes in Sweden need help to prevent them re-offending, according to a government-commissioned report. Anti-prostitution work needs to focus even more on men's role, according to the report entitled Men and Equality
. Tthe authors of the report claim that more needs to be done to target men who continue to pay for sex. Their recommendation to do more to prevent men going to prostitutes contrasts with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt's call for a tougher
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Sex workers take action against a parliamentary move to introduce manadatory jail for men caught paying for sex
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| 6th May 2022
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Sign petition from eswalliance.org |
The European Sex Worker Alliance (ESWA) is circulating a petition in solidarity with Swedish sex worker activists fighting a politically motivated attempt to require mandatory jail time for their clients. In a letter to the Swedish Parliament
published in English and Sweden, the ESWA addressed the upcoming May 31 vote on a proposal to increase the minimum punishment for the purchase of sexual services from a fine to a prison sentence. The group urged Swedish politicians who are
threatening the livelihoods of the country's sex workers to listen to sex workers, to consider current, as well as upcoming, research on the matter and to take into account the countless recommendations from organizations, including the sex worker-led
organization Red Umbrella Sweden, to start committing to supporting a legal framework for people working in the sex trade, that protects and affirms those individuals' human rights. The letter reads:
It has come to our attention that there will be a vote on the 31st of May on a proposal to increase the minimum punishment for the purchase of sexual services from a fine to a prison sentence.
Sex workers in Sweden, as in many countries in Europe and globally, are amongst the most marginalised and discriminated against members of society,
and experience high levels of violence and human rights violations. We urge you to listen to sex workers, to consider current, as well as upcoming, research on
the matter, and to take into account the countless recommendations from organisations, including the sex worker-led organisation Red Umbrella Sweden, to start committing to supporting a legal framework for people working in the sex trade, that protects
and affirms those individuals’ human rights. We are deeply concerned that research indicates that the current Swedish government’s "pursuit of sex buyers and combatting sex trafficking
functions as punitive and racialised policing, targeting people in the sex trade and resulting in forced evictions, deportations, and police harassment. This increases their vulnerability for violence and experiences of stigma".
It is also very alarming to hear that the Swedish government is positioning themselves to support this, when there are many recommendations that Sweden should be adapting the approach and policy making
regarding sex work and people in the sex trade. From WHO, Amnesty International, UNAIDS, ILGA Europe, ESWA, NSWP, La Strada International, the Global Alliance Against Traffic In Women, TGEU and independent researchers, there is a clear recommendation to
decriminalise sex work, because of the negative effects of any form of criminalisation of sex workers and their environments. The European Convention on Human Rights recognises, under Article 11, the fundamental
right to form and to join trade unions, making unionisation an established right that applies across the member states of the Council of Europe.
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