Policing and criminal justice system in Norway
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Cartoon affair boosts Progress Party
A survey in the Bergens Tidende newspaper published in March showed support for the Progress Party rising to 31.8 per cent (Labour having 28.7 per cent) - with the increase credited to the cartoon row.
7 March 2006 (106 words)
Web-site closed after complaint about President Bush joke
Following a complaint by the US embassy in Oslo, police have shut down an anti-Bush satirical web-site belonging to the Gatas Parlament rap trio which urged people to raise money to finance the assassination of Bush.
6 November 2004 (69 words)
Right-wing leader Hagen needs protection following anti-Islamic tirade
Progress Party Leader Carl I. Hagen has been issued with a mobile security alarm by police because they are worried he might become a target for terrorists because of anti-Islamic remarks he made last summer.
1 September 2004 (128 words)
Immigrant crime could lead to 'mafias'
According to research commissioned by the department of local government, ethnic gangs could give Norway the kind of organised crime that accompanied waves of migration to the US.
28 August 2004 (95 words)
Police accused of racism to asylum seekers
The Norwegian Organisation for Asylum Seekers has accused the Police Immigration Unit in Oslo of systematic harassment of asylum seekers.
4 August 2004 (55 words)
Policing 'marriages of convenience' a priority
The police have joined forces with Norway's immigration agency (UDI) to crack down on what Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) terms the growing problem of the 'scores of would-be immigrants suspected of marrying Norwegians to obtain residence'.
12 May 2004 (102 words)
Africans protest at racism in police training
A course on 'cultural understanding' at the Norwegian Police Academy, written by a lecturer who was apparently raised in Africa, has been derided by Africans who live in Norway.
4 May 2004 (124 words)
First jail sentence for 'preventing integration'
An Oslo court has for the first time ruled that it is a punishable offence to prevent one's spouse from integrating into Norwegian society.
14 April 2004 (258 words)
Asylum seekers over-represented in crime stats
According to police statistics, every tenth person charged or suspected where the police have finger-print evidence, is an asylum seeker.
11 February 2004 (89 words)
Bootboys leader acquitted on incitement charge
The Antiracist Centre and representatives from the Jewish communities in Oslo and Trondheim, have criticised the Supreme Court's decision to acquit a leading neo-Nazi of incitement to racism.
29 July 2003 (78 words)
Anti-terrorist legislation revised
Following strong criticism from Norway's top public prosecutor, the justice minister has dropped controversial anti-terrorist measures and presented a revised government plan for fighting terrorism.
1 August 2002 (79 words)
Checks and safeguards proposed to counter racial profiling
The government has agreed to force police to issue an automatic on-the-spot 'receipt' to anyone who has been frisked or asked for ID, in an attempt to combat racial profiling.
3 July 2002 (189 words)
Police may have falsified evidence in case against black cleaner
Three police officers who were cleared of assaulting a black office cleaner may have fabricated evidence that they were forced to restrain her after she bit one of them.
1 August 2000 (135 words)
Oslo police accused of discriminating in arrests
A survey has concluded that the police in Oslo are discriminating against people who appear foreign by singling them out for arrest.
1 November 1999 (67 words)
Police criminal records single out 'Gypsy criminal offenders'
A criminal register used by the police's bureau of crime investigation almost certainly violates the UN convention on race discrimination.
1 November 1999 (138 words)
Focus on police and asylum-seekers
Controversial police chief calls for tough asylum approach
1 November 1999 (326 words)
Bosnian restaurateur accuses police of prejudice after drugs raid
Police searching for drugs raided the Donna Pizzagrill restaurant in Trondheim, arresting the owner, his wife and all the guests.
1 July 1999 (99 words)
Police see asylum-seekers as 'information source'
A senior Oslo police officer has called on the Directorate of Immigration to improve methods for reporting on 'suspicious' asylum-seekers.
1 March 1999 (52 words)
Oslo police criticised after black youth stopped seventeen times in three weeks
Oslo police have refused to comment on the case of a black man who was stopped 17 times over a 3-week period by police who suspected him of stealing his own bicycle.
1 March 1999 (116 words)
Police accuse Iraqi who collected coins of theft
Gjovik police have denied accusations of discrimination after a 30-year-old man who has lived in Norway for 11 years but is originally from Iraq was questioned after he went to the post office to change coins he had been saving for the last three years.
1 March 1999 (99 words)
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