The court refused to deport a migrant for raping a Swedish woman because the crime was “not serious.”

A Swedish appeals court has ruled that 18-year-old Eritrean Yazied Mohamed, who was sentenced to three years in prison for raping 17-year-old Meya Åberg, will not be deported because the crime was not “particularly serious” under the law protecting persons with refugee status, IndexHR reports.

In its reasoning, the court emphasized the need to consider all the circumstances of the case, including the duration of the attack as an assessing factor.

In Sweden, the deportation of a refugee is only possible in cases of exceptionally serious crimes that also pose a “serious threat to public order and safety.” The court therefore rejected the prosecutor's request for deportation, even though the case became public and the victim reported the crime immediately.

“I hate him for what he did to me, and after his conviction, I felt a great sense of relief. When I saw him at school, I was scared to death,” the teenager told Swedish public radio in mid-September this year.

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