Carl Fredrik Malm is a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 politician

Politician

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 and Member of Parliament

Parliament of Sweden

The Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...

 for the Liberal People's Party

Liberal People's Party (Sweden)

The Liberal People's Party is a political party in Sweden. The party advocates social liberalism and is part of the governing centre-right coalition The Alliance, which achieved a majority in the general election of 17 September 2006...

. He was chairperson of the Liberal Youth of Sweden from 2002 to 2006.

Malm is married to Gulan Avci

Gulan Avci

Gulan Avci is a Swedish politician of Kurdish descent and Member of Parliament for the Liberal People's Party. In March 2010, she broke with her party line and voted in favor of the Recognition of the Armenian Genocide in Swedish Parliament. Avci was chairperson of the Kurdish Youth of Sweden...

, Member of Parliament for the Liberal People's Party. Avci was chairperson of the Kurdish Youth of Sweden between 1998–2000 and is linked to Kurdish recognition of the Armenian genocide

Armenian Genocide

The Armenian Genocide—also known as the Armenian Holocaust, the Armenian Massacres and, by Armenians, as the Great Crime—refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of the Armenian population of the Ottoman Empire during and just after World War I...

.

Malm is known among his proponents as a champion of freedom

Freedom (political)

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, democracy

Democracy

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 and human rights

Human rights

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 worldwide, especially his support for an independent Kurdistan and for the democracy movements in states such as Cuba

Cuba

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 which he claims are totalitarian. He started the project Cuba Free Library. In January 2006 he received the "Kurdish Friend of the Year"-award by the Kurdish regional government. He is also known as an opponent of anti-semitism

Anti-Semitism

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 and all other forms of xenophobia

Xenophobia

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. He has previously worked as an editor of the Swedish anti-racist magazine

Magazine

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 Expo

Expo (magazine)

Expo is a Swedish anti-racist magazine, started in 1995 and issued by the non-profit Expo Foundation . The magazine, issued four times a year, contains investigative journalism focused on nationalist, racist, anti-democratic, anti-semitic and far-right movements and organisations...

, and as an editorialist for Upsala Nya Tidning, Eskilstuna-Kuriren, Gefle Dagblad and a couple of other liberal newspapers in Sweden.

Malm has expressed his support for the democracy movement in Iran

Iran

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, and is calling for tougher sanctions against the country, which he has been criticized for by Hans Linde

Hans Linde (Swedish politician)

Hans Linde is a Swedish Left Party politician. He has been a member of the Riksdag since 2006 and since October 2010 he is group leader of the Left Party parliamentary group.-External links:* at the Riksdag website...

, a member of the Left Party

Left Party (Sweden)

The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations...

 

External links

• Fredrik Malm – blog
• Fredrik Malm – official website