A parliamentary committee with representatives from all parliamentary parties will be appointed to review the law, said Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) and the legal policy spokespersons of the collaborating parties on Expressen debate.
The committee must, among other things, decide whether an act can constitute defamation even if what is said or written is true.
Today's rules do not take sufficient account of the fact that there may be an interest in spreading certain types of information, the representatives write, giving as examples parents who are interested in knowing whether the new neighbour has been convicted of sexual abuse of children or whether a person who has been raped may have good reason to warn others about the perpetrator so that there are no more victims.
"Swedish laws should not protect the perpetrator, but the victim and the surrounding society," Kristersson writes in a separate post on Instagram.
