Tag: extremism
Hate crimes double against Muslims
A young white supremacist's attack on a mosque in Bærum last year came amidst an alarming rise in the number of hate crimes against...
PST probed after right-wing attack
Norway's police intelligence agency PST, officially charged with evaluating and handling the most serious threats against national security, is now under investigation itself. At...
PST raises threat of right-wing terror
Norway's domestic police intelligence unit PST issued a new terror warning on Thursday that raises the threat of attacks carried out by right-wing extremists....
Terror defendant can stand trial
Court-appointed psychiatrists have determined that the young ultra-right-wing Norwegian who murdered his adopted step-sister and then opened fire in a mosque is capable of...
Challenges pile up for new PST chief
Hans Sverre Sjøvold took over as the new chief of Norway's police intelligence agency PST just last spring. Since then he's had to deal...
Mosque attacker cites ‘political’ motive
UPDATED: The young Norwegian man who murdered his Chinese-born adopted step-sister and then attacked a local mosque in August was back in court for...
PST targets more right-wing extremism
The arrest in Oslo this weekend of a right-wing nationalist from the US marks the latest example of how Norway's police intelligence unit PST...
White supremacist still in isolation
He complained in court on Monday that it was "boring" to sit in jail in full isolation. A court in Oslo nonetheless ordered that's...
Step-sister killed because she was Asian
An autopsy into the death of 17-year-old Johanne Zhanglia Ihle-Hansen in Bærum last month has concluded that she was killed with two shots to...
Terrorist wanted ‘to scare Muslims’
The 21-year-old Norwegian charged with firing shots inside a mosque and murdering his Chinese-born step-sister last weekend agreed on Monday to undergo a pre-trial...
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