Victoria Kawesa | |
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Leader of Feminist Initiative | |
In office 26 March 2017 –15 September 2017 | |
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Born | Uganda | 12 April 1975
Political party | Feminist Initiative |
Victoria Kawesa,(born 12 April 1975) is a Swedish politician and former leader of the Feminist Initiative party. 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 former lecturer at Södertörn University. [5]
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]
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 at 17:52,11 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 kronor. [13]
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