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Non-Discrimination Ombudsman calls for stricter penalties for intimate partner violence

Non-Discrimination Ombudsman

Deputy justice chancellor raps police for unlawfully ending dozens of domestic violence investigations

Ban on cargo ship wastewater dumping takes effect

Environment and Nature

Government plan to ban phones in clasrooms moves forward

Thousands of deactivated guns still unreported in Finland

Justice Chancellor rejects government's border bill: "Still needs work"

Court: Wolf hunting permits granted improperly

Uusimaa court faces gang-connected threat

Turkey again requests legal assistance against Tampere man that insulted Erdoğan

Kuopio sword attacker not planning to appeal sentence to Supreme Court

Reported hate crime figures down slightly in 2020

15 convicted over Helsinki assault

Court issues sentence for controversial city councillor

NBI make "significant progress" in Vastaamo data breach, blackmail probe

Data Breach & Theft

Appeal court dismisses charges against Soldiers of Odin counter-demonstrator

Bill of indictment

NBI top cop: Crime gangs "growing, internationalising and strengthening" in Finland

Nordic countries

Prosecutors aim to dissolve motorcycle crime gang

Finland files first criminal charges over refusal to take Covid test

Bill of indictment

High cost of incarceration spurs more alternatives to prison

Criminal Sanctions Agency (Finland)

Prosecutor: No investigation into use of police firearm

Helsinki court freezes climate action group's assets

Court jails driver over crash that claimed three lives

Bill of indictment

Police suspect climate group of fundraising violations

Ex-Oulu politician convicted of ethnic incitement for third time

Supreme Court rules police cannot use sensitive Vastaamo patient data

Koskela killers accept verdicts, no appeals lodged

Finnish criminals identified in Pandora papers data leak

Offshore financial centre

Finland tightens laws on illegal threats

Members of Parliament

Prosecutor drops ethnic agitation charges against former Left Alliance official

Climate Change Denial

Man faces trial over football match racist abuse

Junes Lokka's third ethnic agitation trial begins in Oulu

Government proposes creation of dedicated office to tackle domestic violence

Domestic violence

Third teen convicted of Koskela murder may appeal sentence

Kuopio school sword attack appeal begins

18-year-old faces manslaughter charges in crash killing three youths

Bill of indictment

Two teens convicted in Koskela murder to appeal sentences

Bill of indictment

Court fines man €480 for incident involving ex-PM Sipilä

Trial (in court)

Teens handed 8-to-10-year jail terms over brutal Koskela killing

Bill of indictment

Court dismisses incitement charges against Independence Day swastika flag wavers

School surveys: Sexual violence against children on the decline

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