Tag: crime

Big increase in politicians assigned bodyguards

Threats and unusually strong expressions of displeasure have dramatically increased the number of Norwegian politicians who have been assigned bodyguards. More have bodyguards now...

Police may have cracked porno ring

Children's advocates were praising police on Friday for launching coordinated raids this week in 14 different police districts in Norway and arresting 20 persons...

More compensation for victims of violence

All the political parties in the Norwegian Parliament support the payment of higher compensation for victims of violence, and have approved both raising limits...

Attention turns to online extremists

Justice Minister Grete Faremo is promising to boost resources for police investigators trying to monitor online extremists who are active on radical right-wing websites....

Psychiatry board claims impartiality

Members of a psychiatric review board charged with evaluating a controversial insanity diagnosis for confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik believe they're all impartial, even...

Experts challenge insanity diagnosis

More psychiatrists are challenging last week's declaration by court-appointed colleagues that confessed terrorist Anders Behring Breivik is insane and therefore can't be punished with...

Convicts transferred in Congo

Two Norwegians convicted last year of murder and spying in the Democratic Republic of Congo have been transferred from a military prison in Kisingani...

‘Breivik can be sent back to prison’

Norway's worst mass murderer since World War II may still wind up in a high-security prison, despite being declared insane this week by court-appointed...

PST boss hangs on to her job

Janne Kristiansen, head of Norway's police intelligence unit PST, faced her critics on Friday and claimed she had no intention of resigning. She apologized,...

Forgery case involves Hamsun, Ibsen

Two of Norway's most famous literary figures, Knut Hamsun and Henrik Ibsen, have been the unwitting subjects of a major forgery case that resulted...
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