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Yvonne Ruwaida
Swedish politician (born 1970) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yvonne Ruwaida (born 14 August 1970 in Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a Swedish Green Party politician of Palestinian origin. She was a member of the Parliament of Sweden from 1994 to 2006.[1]
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As a member of parliament, Ruwaida together with Mariam Osman Sherifay (Social democrats) invited two representatives of the palestinian organization Hamas, which at the time was categorized as a terrorist organization by the EU. The invitees were a group leader in the palestine parliament and a relative of a Hamas leader which had been killed.[2][3][4]
From 2006 until 2010, she was the leader of the Greens in the city council in Stockholm Municipality, where they were part of the opposition. Since then, she is vice-convener of the Green Party's central directorate.
According to terror scholar Magnus Ranstorp, Ruwaida is opposed to strengthening the anti-terror legislation in Sweden.[5]