Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir
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National Police Commissioner Resigns
National Police Commissioner Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir has resigned, various media outlets report. According to a press statement announced by the Icelandic government, Minister of Judicial Affairs Þorbjörg Sigríður Gunnlaugsdóttir confirmed Sigríður’s resignation after the two met on Sunday, November 9. “This is…
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A New Hope: Meet The Women Fighting Domestic Violence
Iceland: a utopia for women, forged by equality. In recent years, international surveys have consistently named the country as the best in the world in which to be a woman—yet reports show that 25% of Icelandic women have experienced domestic violence. Police…
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Protest Report Illegal, Says Data Protection Authority
A report compiled by former Chief Superintendant of the Police Geir Jón Þórisson entitled “Summary of the structure of the police with protests from 2008 to 2011” has been found by the Data Protection Authority of Iceland (DPA) to have been illegal,…
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Progressive Campaign Manager: Refugee “Slave Owner And Pimp”
The campaign manager for the Progressive Party in Reykjavík has declared Nigerian asylum seeker Tony Omos to be a “slave owner and pimp”. This is also not the first time he has spoken openly against ethnic minorities in Iceland. Stundin reports that…
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Police Chief Broke Law In Asylum Seeker Leak Case
The Data Protection Authority (DPA) has ruled that Reykjavík Police Chief Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, during her time as Suðurnes Police Chief, broke the law when she sent former Interior Minister assistant Gísli Freyr Valdórsson confidential information on Nigerian asylum seeker Tony Omos.…
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Policeman Convicted Of Brutality May Still Have Job
Police Chief, Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, has told RÚV that the future of the policeman convicted of brutality last year remains uncertain, meaning it is still not clear whether he will lose his job as a result of his conviction. “I just don’t…
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Post-Leak Hangover
Infamously, on November 20th, 2013, Fréttablaðið and mbl.is published news based on confidential information collected within the Ministry of the Interior. November 21st, 2013, DV points this out, and asks: who leaked an internal ministry document about an asylum seeker as it…
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An Ornamental Resignation
Today, (now former) Minister of the Interior Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir resigned from her post, one year and one day after her ministry leaked a memo to select members of the press containing falsehoods and misinformation about Nigerian asylum seeker Tony Omos. As…
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New Police Commissioner Wanted Iceland To Ignore International Law
The newly-appointed Commissioner of the Capital Area Police, Sigríður Björk Guðjónsdóttir, has gone on record saying Iceland should continue to ignore international law on the treatment of refugees. As DV points out, last December, Sigríður – at the time Suðurnes chief of…
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Interior Minister May Have Tried To Influence Investigations
Minister of the Interior Hanna Birna Kristjánsdóttir may have tried to influence police investigations of her ministry, prompting the previous police commissioner to quit. The Constitutional and Supervisory Committee has asked the Minister to explain herself. DV reports that, according to their…