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Authority demands prosecution of researchers who investigated immigrant rapes
Published 21 October 2021 at 10.10
DOMESTIC. The Board of Appeal for Ethical Review (ÖNEP) prosecuted a study that showed immigrants' strong over-representation in rapes. When the prosecutor now decides not to initiate a preliminary investigation, ÖNEP has requested a review of the prosecutor's decision, writes Läkartidningen.

Four medical researchers at Lund University were behind the study, which received media attention when it was published in June this year.

Among other things, the researchers were able to show that 60 percent of those who were convicted of rape during the years 2000 to 2015 had a foreign background.

The Board of Appeal for Ethical Review, ÖNEP, prosecuted the study with reference to the fact that the research lacked an ethical permit.

- We believe that they have admittedly had an ethics review permit, but it does not include the sensitive personal data that they use in the publication that we have cracked down on, says Jörgen Svidén, head of the office at ÖNEP, to Läkartidningen.

He thinks it is "very strange" that the prosecutor did not proceed with a preliminary investigation.

Professor: "Shocking"
Kristina Sundquist, professor of general medicine at Lund University and responsible for the study, can not understand why ÖNEP suddenly became so interested in prosecuting her.

- Our research group has for more than 20 years worked with the unique register data that exists in Sweden. In all these years, we have been extremely careful to apply for an ethics permit for all our studies. So this time too. We considered that we had a valid ethics permit, with the changes we had applied for at the ethics committee and received approval, says Kristina Sundquist to Läkartidningen.

Kristina Sundquist states that she was shocked by the indictment. The fact that the Board of Appeal has now requested an appeal is "almost even more shocking", she tells the newspaper.