Two teenage girls who incited riots in Sweden by posting insults about their classmates online and calling them 'sluts' have been found guilty of defamation.
The defendants, aged 15 and 16, set up an Instagram page on which they posted photographs of other girls and boys annotated with derogatory remarks.
They were ordered to pay more than £55,000 in compensation to their victims, while the younger girl was sentenced to juvenile detention and the elder to community service.
In December, the girls created the 'Sluts of Gothenburg' account on photo-sharing site Instagram, encouraging people to share photos of teenagers whom they claimed were sexually promiscuous.
One of them put out an appeal asking 'which young people are the worst sluts in Gothenburg', and received hundreds of replies.
The page quickly became notorious in Sweden's second-largest city, and a crowd of hundreds turned up at a school rumoured to be attended by the page's creator in protest at the 'slut-shaming' behaviour, prompting a showdown with police. (more...)
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