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Saturday, August 28, 2010

Swedish TB station says no to 'hateful' ad

STOCKHOLM - A SWEDISH TV station on Friday refused to broadcast a campaign advert by a far-right political party because it contained racial hatred, the broadcaster said.

The advert by the Swedish Democrats, a far-right party that could become a kingmaker after tight Sept 19 legislative elections, showing a race between an elderly woman and several women in burqas pushing prams with a slogan promising to safeguard pension funding at the expense of immigration.

'We decided not to broadcast it,' Gunnar Gidefeldt, communications director for TV4. MORE
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