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🇸🇪 Sweden/Swedish

State seeks to stop Sami gaining control over mountain hunting

- Five Sami villages are suing the Swedish state to regain control over hunting and fishing rights in the mountains, a right previously affirmed for the Girjas Sami village by the Supreme Court. - The state, through the Chancellor of Justice (JK), has shifted its legal strategy, arguing that the Reindeer Husbandry Act may supersede Sami claims based on ancient rights. - Critics, including a Suprem…