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MP Wants To Investigate Nation’s Muslims
An MP for the Independence Party has written that he would like for there to be an investigation into Icelandic muslims, to determine whether any of them attended terrorist training camps, reports Vísir. “Has the background of the 1.500 muslims that live in Iceland…
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Týr Rescues 360 Migrants In Drifting Cargo Vessel Ezadeen
Ezadeen is the name of the vessel found drifting in the Mediterranean, last Thursday and towed to land by the Icelandic Coast Guard’s offshore patrol vessel Týr. The ship carried 360 migrants, mainly from Syria. They had been locked in the ship’s…
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UN Expert Suggests Debt Relief For Renters
Correction: This story’s headline was corrected after its publication. See note at the end of this post for further information. On Monday, UN Independent Expert Juan Pablo Bohoslavksy ended his week-long fact-finding mission to Iceland on the effects of the 2008 economic…
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Court Confirms Deportation Of Tony Omos
On Friday, the Reykjavík District Court acquitted the Directorate of Immigration (UTL) from charges pressed on behalf of Tony Omos, whose application for asylum in Iceland will thereby not be taken to consideration. A demonstration has been announced on Saturday, to protest…
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UN Expert Visits For Post-2008 Human Rights Checkup
Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, an Independent Expert on Foreign Debt and Human Rights, as appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council, arrives in Iceland on Monday, to estimate the effects of the 2008 bank crash and subsequent economic measures on the realization…
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The World’s Freest Internet
Iceland remains at the top of the Freedom on the Internet index in 2014, according to the a report collected annually by the US think tank Freedom House. This year’s report holds that Iceland “has a vibrant digital sphere” and that access…
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Which Is Why We Talk About The Weather
Yet another Monday. Feel free to read the following at work. That goes for police staff as well. If you are self-employed, unemployed, a student, in hospital, an irregular migrant or currently on strike, I don’t have to tell you. Your teeth…
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Reporters Without Borders Regret Decline Of Press Freedom In Iceland
On Wednesday, the organization Reporters Without Borders (RWB) issued a statement expressing its concerns with the perceived decline of freedom of information in Iceland during the last two years. Among matters of particular concern, the organization says it regrets that the Interior…
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Must Travel For Passport, Needs Passport To Travel
One Trausti Hraunfjörð, an Icelandic citizen residing in Peru, says that Icelandic State authorities have refused to renew his passport for over five years. Paradoxically, he has been told to travel to Europe, Iceland or China to apply for a passort, which…
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Let The Gaymes Begin!
A group of handsome young men gather in the historic city of Rome this week, in the hopes of winning the title of Mr Gay World, an annual beauty pageant for gay rights. The winner of the competition gets to travel all…
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Company Refusing Service To Israelis Breaking Law
The owner of Iceland’s largest campervan rental companies, KúKú Campers and Go Campers, who is refusing service to Israelis in protest, is in violation of the Icelandic constitution. Yesterday Vísir reported that campervan rental owner, Steinarr Lár, had decided to deny Israelis service in…
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Former PM At WorldPride: In The End Love Conquered All
Iceland’s former Prime Minister-slash-the world’s first openly gay head of state Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir gave her first address on LGBT rights in Toronto at the WorldPride Human Rights Conference yesterday. In her speech Jóhanna expressed gratitude for LGBT activists who fought with such…