[The Local-Sweden] The newspaper Aftonbladet has been reported to the Swedish Chancellor of Justice after publishing an article claiming alleged organ harvesting of dead Palestinians by Israeli defense forces. Chancellor Goran Lambertz is the only prosecutor with the power to take legal action in cases concerning freedom of speech and the press. In a written request submitted on August 23, the Chancellor was asked to consider whether the Aftonbladet article constitutes racial agitation. In Swedish law the charge of racial agitation is defined as a crime involving the public dissemination of statements which threaten or express contempt for one or more identified ethnic groups.
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