Reykjavik’s proposition to ban internet pornography in Iceland has drawn fire from international anti-censorship campaigners. Last month saw the country’s lawmakers introduce legislation that would extend the island-nation’s longstanding ban on printed porn to the web.
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Iceland’s porn ban effort draws fire from abroad
Posted on 07 March 2013.
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Icelandic ministers threatened, security tightened
Posted on 23 March 2012.
Bodyguards are now following the Icelandic interior and trade ministers’ every step and their homes are under 24 hour surveillance following threats made against them.
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Iceland FM in intra-coalition EU spat
Posted on 28 February 2012.
Össur Skarphéðinsson, the Social Democratic Minister for Foreign Affairs in Iceland, has ignited controversy within the coalition government with comments that it is much too late for his Left Green colleague, Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson, to now be calling for EU accession talks to be sped up, because he and his allies have [...]
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Left Greens at boiling point over Geir Haarde trial
Posted on 23 January 2012.
Iceland’s Left Green Movement is up in arms about Left Green Minister of the Interior, Ögmundur Jónasson’s very public decision to support the opposition’s bill to halt the trial of former PM Geir H. Haarde.
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Left Green minister supports letting former Iceland PM off negligence charges
Posted on 18 January 2012.
Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of the Interior, says he will support an opposition proposal to cancel the ongoing trial of former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde.
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Icelandic minister sued for Hell’s Angels remarks
Posted on 10 December 2011.
Iceland’s Minister of the Interior is standing his ground against the Hell’s Angels. The bikers’ club has subpoenaed the minister for his comments that the Hell’s Angels are a global organised crime group.
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Chinese investor’s Iceland resort construction bid rejected by minister
Posted on 26 November 2011.
Ögmundur Jónasson, Iceland’s Minister of the Interior, has rejected Chinese billionaire Huang Nubo’s application to buy 30,639 hectares in northeast Iceland for the construction of a luxury resort.
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Icelandic minister’s house attacked
Posted on 09 May 2011.
The home of Icelandic Interior Minister, Ogmundur Jonasson, was attacked over the weekend while the minister was at home. Nobody was hurt.
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