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Prime Minister “Startled” Over Police Seeking To Get Journalists To Reveal Their Sources
During an open questions session of Parliament yesterday, RÚV reports, Prime Minister Katrín Jakobsdóttir said she was “startled” to learn that four journalists are to be questioned by police in a case that is tantamount to compelling them to reveal their sources,…
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Police Seek To Question Four Journalists Over Samherji Reporting
Four journalists will soon be questioned by North Iceland police over their coverage of fishing giant Samherji; specifically, their revelations of a group calling itself “the Samherji guerilla division” which sought to engage in damage control over the company’s revealed involvement in…
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Google Handed Journalists’ Private Emails To The FBI
As recently disclosed and widely reported, journalist and Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson is one of the three staff members at Wikileaks, whose email communication Google handed over to the US’ FBI in March 2012, without informing those targeted until Christmas Eve 2014.…
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Three Priests Oppose Current Anti-Blasphemy Law
Media pundit Egill Helgason notes that three priests have stated their support for Pirate Member of Alþingi Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson’s proposal that current law against blasphemy should be abolished. The priests include Sigríður Guðmarsdóttir, Baldur Kristjánsson and Svavar Alfreð Jónsson. The legal…