Victoria Kawesa (born 12 April 1975) is a Swedish politician and former leader of the Feminist Initiative party.

[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.

[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.

[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.