Today, there is no law that regulates the dissemination of images of the dead, which the lawyers Mårten Schultz and Ängla Eklund think must be changed.
The two laws that lawyers think should be extended are
unlawful invasions of privacy
and
defamation of the deceased
.
At present, privacy breaches do not cover dead people.
In the case of slander of the deceased, the picture of the deceased must also contain information that can be classified as slander, and pictures of dead people are generally not judged as such.
Pictures were spread after the murder of Einár
The lawyers' demands come after pictures that allegedly represent the murdered rapper Nils Einár Grönberg were spread on social media.
Even after the terrorist attack on Drottninggatan, images of dead people flourished, as well as after the police murder in Biskopsgården.
Minister of Justice: Nothing that happens often
But now Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson (S) is responding to the lawyers' demands: no change in the law is relevant.
- As far as is known, the fact that pictures depicting dead people are spread in this way is not something that happens often.
At present, I therefore do not consider it justified to review the provision, he writes in a comment to SVT Kulturnyheterna.