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Bar Changes Name After Political Scandal
By the end of 2018, the local bar Klaustur had gained a lot of sudden attention. The establishment was the home to the recordings that, when leaked, gave place to the “Klausturgate” scandal. At the start of the new year, a post…
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Legal Fund For Bára Halldórsdóttir Established
Bára Halldórsdóttir, the whistleblower who recorded six members of Parliament speaking abusively about their colleagues in a public space, still has outstanding legal fees and other expenses to contend with. The general public has rallied their support, establishing a Karolina Fund project…
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Two Klausturgate MPs Found To Have Broken Ethics Rules
Two of the six MPs recorded speaking abusively about their colleagues last November have been found to have broken parliamentary ethics rules, Morgunblaðið reports. The two MPs in question, both from the Centre Party, are Bergþór Ólason and Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson. Both…
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Klausturgate Whistleblower Compelled To Delete Recordings, Will Not Be Fined
The Date Protection Authority has ruled that Bára Halldórsdóttir‘s recordings of six MPs speaking abusively in public constitutes “electronic surveillance”, RÚV reports. As such, the Authority believes she violated the privacy of the politicians she recorded speaking in public, but she will…
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Icelandic MPs Protest Against Klausturgate MP Live In Parliament
Two MPs for the Pirate Party flanked Centre Party MP Bergþór Ólason as he delivered a speech in Parliament yesterday, with the two MPs in question donning hats that directly protested his continued presence, despite the shocking things he said in the…
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Klausturgate MPs Accuse Whistleblower Of Disguising Herself Like A Tourist To Record Them
In a complaint filed with the Data Protection Authority, a copy of which was forwarded to Grapevine, four of the six MPs recorded in the Klausturgate recordings have accused the woman who leaked these recordings to the press, Bára Halldórsdóttir, of having…
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The Power Of Accountability: An Interview With Whistleblower Bára Halldórsdóttir
Bára Halldórsdóttir, a queer disabled woman who has long advocated for the rights of the chronically ill, found herself in the spotlight last November when it was revealed she had recorded the six parliamentarians implicated in the so-called Klausturgate scandal, subsequently sending…
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VIDEO: Protests Held Against Klausturgate MPs In Front Of Parliament
About 200 people turned out in front of Parliament yesterday to protest the fact that the six MPs involved in the Klausturgate affair are still on the job. With four of the MPs attempting and failing to take legal action against whistleblower…
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Klausturgate MPs’ Return To Parliament Goes As Well As Expected
Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson and Bergþór Ólason, both MPs for the Centre Party who featured prominently in the Klausturgate recordings speaking abusively about their female colleagues, returned to Parliament yesterday. They were not well received, and Gunnar Bragi in particular is on the…
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Two Klausturgate MPs Return To Parliament
Two parliamentarians, who went on leave after recordings of them speaking abusively about their female colleagues were leaked, return to Parliament today. RÚV reports that Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson and Bergþór Ólason, both MPs for the Centre Party, will be returning to Parliament…
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Appellate Court Confirms District Court Ruling On Klaustur Case
Few options are remaining for the four MPs who decided to take legal action against whistleblower Bára Halldórsdóttir in the notorious Klaustur case. Bára informed Grapevine yesterday that the Appellate Court has upheld a previous ruling from Reykjavík District Court, which rejected…
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What Are Icelanders Talking About?
In a story that has made international headlines, three died in a fatal accident in South Iceland in the last week of December. Seven passengers were in a Toyota Land Cruiser which fell from the bridge over the Núpsá river, the cause…
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VIDEO: Klausturgate Trial Begins
Reykjavik District Court was the scene yesterday for the start of legal proceedings in the so-called Klaustur Case, as four members of Parliament for the Centre Party want to question and seek damages from Bára Halldórsdóttir, who recorded the four, along with…
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Four MPs Seek Damages Against Klausturgate Leaker For “Spying”
Four of the six MPs recorded speaking abusively about their female colleagues at Klaustur bar have opted to take legal action against the person who recorded them. A lawyer for the MPs described the recording as “spy tactics”, despite the fact that…
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Icelandic Artist Interprets Klausturgate In New Painting (NSFW)
One of our favourite painters, Þrándur Þórarinsson, has just released a new painting that crystallises the Klausturgate scandal in his own signature fashion. The painting, called “Klausturfokk”, captures all six of the parliamentarians recorded speaking abusively of their colleagues earlier this week,…