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Øystein Windstad

Former journalist at Ny Tid.
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"Traumatizing for the kids"

Jon Ole Martinsen and NOAS are critical of the police coming and picking up asylum seekers at night or early in the morning: "We have been notified that the police have broken open the door of a toddler family."
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"Inhuman and unnecessarily brutal"

NOAS and Secretary-General Ann-Magrit Austenå are upset over the treatment the Ghaneem family received. "It worries us that more asylum seekers have recently been thrown out, despite medical advice," she says.
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Authorities believe they made no mistake

Both the UDI and the Police Immigration Unit say that they have never seen the medical certificate stating that Mithel Ghaneem should not be sent out. Police say they have followed the routines. 
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The West supported state terrorism

Journalist and author Tasneem Khalil documents Western-backed state abuses in countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
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Why I traveled to Chechnya

It is risky to travel to places where torture and murder take place. As a journalist, one can quickly become unwanted – and attacked. Just this happened on my trip in Chechnya.
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Norway lends billions to dictatorships

Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates bomb hospitals, schools and refugee camps in Yemen – and receive loans from Norway. 
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Fear boycott and exclusion of the Oil Fund

Ethical guidelines for Norwegian lending can mean trouble for the Norwegian Oil Fund.
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Norwegian newspaper hacked after Ny Tid article

The newspaper The Nordic Page, which disseminates Norwegian news in English, was attacked and hacked. It happened after they had published part of the Ny Tid case about two Chechens who were found tortured and killed after they were sent out of Norway.
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"We could have sent people to persecution and torture"

Researcher Erling Krogh participated as a member of the appeals committee for asylum cases: "The information we received from the Immigration Appeals Board about the situation in Chechnya was very deficient, and could have led to us sending people to their deaths."
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