"The way we as a society talk about crimes committed should feel reasonable and fair," Minister of Justice Gunnar Strömmer (M) and the legal policy spokespersons of the collaborating parties write in an Expressen debate article.
The committee must decide whether an act can be defamation even if what is said or written is true.
Today's rules do not sufficiently take into account the fact that there may be an interest in spreading certain types of information, the representatives write, giving as examples parents who want to know whether the new neighbour has been convicted of sexual abuse of children, or that the person who has been raped may have good reason to warn others about the perpetrator so that there are no more victims.
