Tag: crime

Judge sentences Mullah Krekar to five years in prison for making threats

Norway has been unable to deport radical Islamic cleric Mullah Krekar but found a way on Monday to keep him in confinement at least...

Football star beaten up

Alexander Aas, captain of the professional football club Strømsgodset in Drammen, was assaulted on a street in Skien late Saturday night and badly beaten....

Myths cloud attitudes toward rape

A unique study of rape in Norway and Norwegians' attitudes toward rape both shatters and reveals several myths around sexual assault. The United Nations,...

Krekar’s counsel surprised by pending Breivik summons

The defense attorney for Mullah Krekar, who's been declared a threat to Norway's national security, says he's surprised Krekar may be called as a...

Hate crimes not reported to police

Several persons with immigrant background in Norway were subjected to hate crimes and harassment right after the terrorist attacks on July 22 last year,...

Justice minister, PST also admit flaws

Norway's police intelligence unit PST and Justice Minister Grete Faremo are both admitting that sharp criticism of their work in connection with the terrorist...

Politician links drug use to parliamentary pressure

Henning Warloe, the politician for the Conservative Party (Høyre) who's been charged with possession and use of narcotics, has told Norwegian media that pressure...

Swedish neo-Nazis spread local fear

A weekend demonstration organized by a Norwegian right-wing extremist group included many participants representing a similar group in Sweden. Police arrested 25 persons described...

Terror survivors feel let down

Many of those who survived confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik's bomb and massacre last summer have been telling Norwegian media that they feel let...

State hands down terror indictment

State prosecutors formally handed down a 19-page indictment against confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik on Wednesday, charging him with two separate terrorist acts that...
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