A Swedish court found an anti-Islam campaigner guilty on Monday of hate crimes involving staging public burnings of the Koran, in a ruling handed down five days after another man also being prosecuted over the incidents was shot dead.

Salwan Najem was fined and given a suspended sentence over staging public burnings of the Quran. Swedish citizen Salwan Najem was convicted for "having expressed contempt for the Muslim ethnic group because of their religious beliefs on four occasions,