Sweden’s court revokes the deportation order of Majd Shhada, a criminal from Syria because the woman he trafficked and abused is pregnant: Details
A district court in Sweden has be recalled the deportation sentence for a Syrian refugee Majd Shhada, who has been convicted several times for crimes such as rape, assault, theft and drug abuse. At the same time that the Court of Appeal for Nedre Norrland revoked his deportation, it claimed that the defendant may risk military service in his home country, Syria.
Another factor given by the court to defend the sentence was Majd Shhada’s “possibility of becoming a parent soon.” Notably, the woman who was trafficked from Syria by the accused and beaten several times is pregnant and expecting a child with Majd Shhada.
On January 9, popular Twitter user Ashwini Shrivastava shared a thread of tweets in which he released information about the aforementioned case. “Sweden: A Syrian refugee Majd Shhada with 8 convictions, who brutally beat, raped and impregnated a young woman, to avoid deportation, the court ruled that he will not be deported because his homeland is “too dangerous” and he risks military service.” his tweet read.
Sweden: A Syrian refugee Majd Shhada with eight convictions, who brutally assaulted, raped and impregnated a young woman to avoid deportation
The court ruled that he will not be deported because his home country is “too dangerous” and he risks military service.
+ #Europehttps://t.co/0KHb8W7nWW pic.twitter.com/DCPAnWrpZz— Ashwini Shrivastava (@AshwiniSahaya) January 9, 2023
In a subsequent tweet, Ashwini Srivastava stated that the accused Majd Shhada arrived in Sweden as a refugee from Syria in 2018. He is accused of raping and abusing a woman he trafficked from Syria to Sweden and has lived in the same house with her since then. . In addition, he has been convicted in Sweden of several thefts, threats and minor drug offences.
According to to the Swedish news portal Samnytt, Majd Shhada’s neighbors routinely informed the police about conflicts and noise coming from the defendant’s residence. Majd, who routinely abused his partner, has previously been arrested for abusing the woman. The woman had been hospitalized several times and her injuries had been documented. But as the wife used to come to his defense, the accused was often saved from jail.
This time too, when the police arrived at his apartment, they were confronted by a badly injured woman, a smashed apartment and a violent and screaming Majd, as they have done so many times before. The woman was taken to hospital by ambulance while the man was arrested and taken to the police station.
Narrating the terror she has been going through for over a year, the woman told the police that Majd Shhada used to beat her so violently that she feared for her life on several occasions. Among other things, he once also tried to strangle her with a shoelace.
On November 14, 2022, the Ångermanland district court sentenced Majd Shhada for gross violation of women’s rights, a crime that the court believes has been ongoing since 2021. He was sentenced to nine months in prison and was asked to pay damages of SEK 120,000 to the victim.
He is sentenced at the same time for another theft, property damage and violent resistance in connection with a previous police intervention in which he spat and kicked the intervening police officers.
The court also ordered that Shhada be deported to his native Syria and will face a five-year repatriation ban.
The defendant and the prosecutor both appealed the Ångermanland District Court’s decision to the Court of Appeal for Nedre Norrland. The prosecutor requested a harsher sentence for the accused. He appealed that Majd’s repatriation ban be extended to ten years.
The Court of Appeal for Lower Norrland increased Majd’s nine-month detention to one year and four months, but overturned the Ångermanland district court’s deportation decision.
The court ruled that because Majd Shhada, who arrived in Sweden as a 17-year-old, would soon “become a parent” and risks military service in his home country, he cannot be repatriated. “He will be protected until war or killed if he is deported there,” the court ruled, adding that the Syrian violent criminal can therefore stay in Sweden.