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Siggi The Hacker, Key Assange Witness, Admits to Perjury
Sigurður Ingi Þórðarson, a key witness in the United States Department of Justice case against Julian Assange, has admitted in a recent interview with Stundin that he fabricated aspects of his testimony against the Wikileaks founder. Last summer, US officials presented UK…
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Wikileaks: DOJ Witness In Assange Indictment ‘Sociopath, Conman, Child Abuser’
Yesterday, the US Department of Justice published a summary (.pdf) of a federal grand jury’s second superseding indictment against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is currently in custody, on charges of “offenses that relate to Assange’s alleged role in one of the…
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The Top Five News Stories In Iceland Of 2019
2019 was an eventful year for news, and some of it was actually good news, too. There were some stories, however, that stood above the rest—they may have attracted international headlines, profoundly affected the political landscape, or proved lively and resilient in…
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Fishrot Files: Samherji In Damage Control, But Investigations Continue
Management of Samherji—the Icelandic fishing giant currently embroiled in a scandal involving bribing Namibian officials for fishing quotas, and using a shell company in a tax haven to squirrel away the proceeds—are trying their best to minimise and deflect criticism. However, investigations…
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Fishrot Files: The Response In Iceland So Far
Samherji CEO Þorsteinn Már Baldvinsson has temporarily stepped down from his post, RÚV reports, while investigations are being conducted in the wake of the revelations being brought to light by the Fishrot Files—an exposé by Wikileaks and numerous media outlets showing how…
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Icelandic Fishing Company Engaged In Bribery, Tax Evasion, Plundering African Resources
Some 30,000 documents published by Wikileaks as The Fishrot Files, and subsequently reported on by Stundin, RÚV’s investigative news programme Kveikur, Al-Jazeera and The Namibian, show that Samherji, Iceland’s largest fishing company, has for years been engaging in bribery of public officials…
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Settlement Reached In Valitor-Wikileaks Case
Concluding a legal battle which began about nine years ago, electronic payment giants Valitor have agreed to pay damages to Wikileaks after illegally blocking payments to the site in 2010. The case begins in 2010, when the company DataCell began handling donations…
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Valitor Sentenced To Pay 1.2 Billion ISK Over Wikileaks Payment Block
The debit and credit card company was fined 1.2 billion ISK in Reykjavík District Court for illegally blocking payments to Wikileaks in 2010, after previously being legally compelled to open payments again about two years later. The case begins in 2010, when…
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Wikileaks Editor: “We Will Fight” Extradition Of Julian Assange
Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson told the Grapevine that today’s arrest of Julian Assange violates both international law and “moral decency”. He says Wikileaks is ready to fight his extradition to the United States. In a brief phone interview this morning, Kristinn told…
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Wikileaks Editor: Democratic Party Needs To ‘Come To Terms’ With Lessons Of 2016
With the Mueller report now released to US Attorney General William Barr, and what we know of the findings so far showing no collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia to influence the outcome of the 2016 US presidential elections, Democrats are…
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Wikileaks Editor: Roger Stone Never Spoke With Julian Assange
In a new interview, Wikileaks editor-in-chief Kristinn Hrafnsson says that former Donald Trump advisor Roger Stone never spoke with Julian Assange. Kristinn spoke with the Grapevine in a feature interview, where he went in depth into Wikileaks, the 2016 US presidential elections,…
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Information Is Never Neutral: The Editor Of Wikileaks Breaks His Silence
“If you’re not a radical journalist, you’re not a journalist,” Kristinn tells us near the beginning of our interview. “You’re basically part of the problem. You’re in PR. Not to say that these reporters are necessarily being paid directly by the powers…
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Lawsuit Against The Guardian In The Works Over Assange-Manafort Story
The editor of WikiLeaks is preparing a lawsuit against The Guardian after reporting that former Trump campaign advisor Paul Manafort secretly met with Julian Assange on several occasions. Manafort has denied the claims, and Kristinn Hrafnsson, the editor of WikiLeaks, says that…
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Former Wikileaks Spokesperson On Manning Sentence Commute: “Victory For Justice”
Former Wikileaks spokesperson Kristinn Hrafnsson took to Icelandic radio today on the occasion of whistleblower Chelsea Manning having her sentence commuted by US President Barack Obama. “This is a great cause for celebration and a victory for justice that her sentence was…
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Exclusive: Pirate Party MP Meets Edward Snowden In Moscow
Birgitta Jónsdóttir has been back on Icelandic soil for less than twelve hours when we meet. During the previous three days, the Pirate Party MP, privacy activist and former Wikileaks volunteer quietly travelled to Moscow, where she took part in a documentary…
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Former Icelandic Minister Talks Candidly About Booting Out The FBI
In a new interview, former Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson spoke frankly about his confrontation with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) when they touched down in Iceland more than five years ago. The interview, conducted by EU analysis site…
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Pirate MP Slams Mansplaining “Downton Abbey” Lord – VIDEO
Pirate MP Birgitta Jónsdóttir and Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes were guests on Skavlan, one of Scandinavia’s most popular evening talk shows, last Friday. Their exchanges on the show went from chilly to downright confrontational within the span of ten minutes. Birgitta…
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News In Brief: Mid-July 2015
Icelanders’ persistence in hunting fin whales continues to enrage the outside world, most recently attracting the ire of a group of activists, a celebrity and, potentially, a ruthless world leader. Late June, activist group Hard To Port commenced direct action against whalers, kayaking…
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Met Police Statement: Did Not Acquire Hacking Team’s Solution
The Reykjavík Metropolitan Police has not done any business with Hacking Team, the Italian surveillance software provider, whose leaked email correspondence and other data were published by Wikileaks on Thursday. This is according to a brief news release issued by the Police…
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Reykjavík Police Sought Spyware From Hacking Team
Hacking Team e-mails reveal that an Icelandic detective from the Reykjavík Metropolitan Police sought their help for hacking mobile phone communications, declaring an interest in obtaining spyware to monitor digital communications. The hacking of Italian “lawful intercept” provider Hacking Team – notorious, among…
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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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Siggi Hacker Sentenced To Two Years
Reykjanes District Court has handed Sigurður Ingi Þórðarson, also known as “Siggi Hacker,” a two year prison sentence for fraud. In all Sigurður admitted guilt to embezzling, defrauding and stealing about 30 million ISK, reports MBL. As reported, Sigurður faced a total…
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Hacktivist Gluggagægir Arrested On Suspicion Of Espionage
The tenth Yule Lad, Gluggagægir (Window Peeper), was arrested last night on suspicion of espionage. Gluggagægir was apprehended after police received reports of him loitering outside Alþingi, peeking through windows. Gluggagægir has spent centuries peeping through people’s windows, curious about the going’s…