They were protesting the deportation of fellow Iraqis, but it is not clear if these are Christians or Muslims (or both) being returned.
From Assafirpress:
Gothenburg, Sweden, INN – A number of Iraqi asylum seekers clashed with police forces at the Swedish Immigration Board protesting planned deportation of Iraqi refugees back to Baghdad, informed sources said Wednesday. Around 80 refugees gathered at the facility and tried to prevent police from taking 25-30 Iraqi refugees to Gothenburg’s Landvetter airport to fly them back to Baghdad. Protestors were dispersed by police who used batons and sprinkled pepper spray which causes no harm to human health to keep the protesters away from a bus which carrying to the airport the refugees who failed to get asylum permits., the sources said. Earlier this year, 20 asylum seekers were deported back to Iraq from Stockholm and another six from Denmark despite heated protests against their expulsion by human rights organizations including the UN Higher Commission for Refugees ( UNHCR), a number of the asylum seekers who were sent back belong to religious and ethnic groups targeted by violence in Iraq. Tens of thousands of Iraqis have fled the war in their country to resettle in Sweden, with official statistics showing 117,900 people born in Iraq lived in the Scandinavian country in 2009, up from 49,400 in 2000.
Here is one of several previous posts we have written on Sweden returning Christians to Iraq.