Victoria Kawesa

Victoria Kawesa, (born 12 April 1975 in Uganda) is a Swedish politician and former party leader of the Leader of Feminist Initiative. In March 2017, she was elected the leader of the party, along with Gudrun Schyman.[1][2] Kawesa was the first black party leader in Swedish history.[3] In September 2017, she resigned, citing personal reasons.[1][2] Kawesa was charged and found guilty of copyright violation.[4] She is a lecturer at Södertörn university.[5]

Victoria Kawesa
Leader of Feminist Initiative
In office
March 2017 – 15 September 2017
Personal details
Born (1975-04-12) 12 April 1975
Political partyFeminist Initiative

Background

Kawesa came to Sweden as a nine-year-old with her family who had fled from the war in Uganda, and the family resided in Tensta outside of Stockholm.[6]

Plagiarism and assault

In April 2017, a police investigation was commenced against Kawesa after she was accused of plagiarizing a doctoral work and presented it as her own research, for which she was given an admonition by Linköping University.[7][8] She has previously (2013) been reported to have plagiarized another researcher's project application.[9] Kawesa was found guilty by the Crown Court of Stockholm and sentenced to 15,000 kr fines and 6000 kr in damages.[10][11]

In 2018, Kawesa was charged with assault after hitting a man in the face and kicking him at a Stockholm subway station. The incident occurred in January 2018 during which Kawesa had attempted to walk through the subway barrier without using her Access card. Kawesa claims self defence after the man first attacked her.[12] Surveillance footage showed otherwise, and Kawesa was convicted of battery, given a suspended sentence and ordered to pay a fine of 36,000 Swedish crowns.[13]

References
  1. oRadia Sweden:Feminist Initiative co-leader resigns
  2. Aftonbladet:
  3. Radio, Sveriges. "Victoria Kawesa är Sveriges första svarta partiledare - P5 STHLM". Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  4. "Victoria Kawesa åtalas för upphovsrättsbrott". Aftonbladet. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
  5. "Södertrörn University". Retrieved 21 May 2017.
  6. "Porträtt: Svarta kvinnors röster saknas - Nationella sekretariatet för genusforskning". Genus.se. Retrieved 4 April 2017.
  7. "Kulturprofil anklagar Fi:s ledare för plagiat: "Har skott sig på andra kvinnor"". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  8. "Partiledare för Fi polisanmäld: Uppenbart brott" (in Swedish). 2017-04-27. Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  9. "Länsprofil anklagar Fi:s partiledare för brott". Retrieved 2017-05-12.
  10. "Förra Fi-ledaren döms för upphovsrättsbrott". Retrieved 2017-12-22.
  11. "Nyheter detalj". Göteborgs universitet (in Swedish). 2017-12-22. Archived from the original on 20 March 2018. Retrieved 2018-03-20.
  12. Expressen: Förra Fi-partiledaren åtalas för misshandel
  13. "Victoria Kawesa dömd för misshandel i tunnelbanan". Expressen (in Swedish). Retrieved 13 October 2018.

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