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MPs seated at the table, from left: Karl Gauti Hjaltason, Bergþór Ólason, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, Anna Kolbrún Árnadóttir and Ólafur Ísleifsson.

Two MPs Violated Code of Conduct at Klaustur Bar

1 Aug The Ethics Committee of Alþingi has concluded that two members of parliament violated the Code of Conduct for Members of the Alþingi in their remarks, made at Klaustur bar on November 20.

"F**k violence" is what the letters on the beanies stand for.

Pirate party members protest Klausturgate MPs wearing anti-violence beanies

6 Feb 2019 Pirate party MPs Þórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir and Björn Leví Gunnarsson wore beanies with the letters "FO" at Parliement yesterday when MP Bergþór Ólason, involved in the scandalous Klaustur recording made a speech.

The MP's heard on the recording which made scandal.

Klausturgate MP's say whistle blower disguised herself as a tourist

5 Feb 2019 The MP's involved in the Klaustur bar recording scandal now claim that the woman who recorded them, Bára Halldórsdóttir planned the recording and disguised herself as a foreign tourist.

Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson at Parliament yesterday.

MP and former Minister "lost his clothes in a blackout"

25 Jan 2019 Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson, MP for the Centre Party who was involved in the Klaustur bar recording scandal said in a television interview last night that he can't remember a thing from that fateful night at the bar, that he lost his clothes and was in a blackout for 36 hours.

Lilja Alfreðsdóttir walks out today after a brief interchange with Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson.

Klaustur MPs get a cold reception at Parliament today

24 Jan 2019 Images of Minister of Culture Lilja Alfreðsdóttir standing up from her seat twice to say something inaudible to Centre Party MP Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson. Alfreðsdóttir came forward in a TV interview in December to say she found the MPs to be "perpetrators of violence."

Bergþór Ólason and former Foreign Minister Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson.

Two of the Klaustur scandal MP's back at Parliament

24 Jan 2019 Centre Party MP's Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson and Bergþór Ólason are taking their seats at Parliament again today after taking leave from duties after the Klaustur bar recording scandal.

Bára Halldórsdóttir received support from a lot of people when she had to make a court appearance last month.

State court rejects request of Klaustur Bar Scandal MPs

17 Jan 2019 The State Court of Iceland, Landsréttur have confirmed the decision by the Reykjavik District court to reject the request of four Centre Party MPs involved in the Klaustur bar recording scandal to start collecting testimonies and evidence in the case they wish to make against whistleblower Bára Halldórsdóttir.

Former PM refuses to discuss Klaustur bar tapes

16 Jan 2019 The MP's from the Centre Party who are the centre of the so-called Klausturgate bar recordings have refused to attend a government committee meeting to discuss parts of the recording.

Bára Halldórsdóttir at Reykjavik District Court earlier this week.

Court rejects case against Klaustur bar whistle blower

19 Dec 2018 The Reykjavik District Court has rejected the request of four MP's from the Centre Party to gather evidence to make a case against Bára Halldórsdóttir who famously recorded six MP's having a conversation at the Klaustur bar.

Klaustur bar whistle blower makes court appearance

18 Dec 2018 Bára Halldórsdóttir, who recorded six MP's at the Klaustur bar in Reykjavik was asked to appear at the Reykjavik District Court to make a statement for a possible case made against her. Crowds of people showed up outside court to show their support.

Former Minister for Foreign affairs and MP for the Centre Party Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson was one of the six involved in the scandalous bar conversation.

Person who made Klaustur bar recording goes public

7 Dec 2018 Newspaper Stundin revealed today the identity of the person who made the recording at Klaustur bar of six MP's that has caused a scandal within Icelandic society. She's a disabled gay woman called Bára Halldórsdóttir who says she began recording when the MP's began to make loud crude comments about minority groups and women.

Freyja Haraldsdóttir was an MP for Bright Future. She suffers from brittle bone disease.

"Must have been the wheels on my wheelchair skidding"

4 Dec 2018 Centre party leader Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson said yesterday evening that the seal noise made at the Klaustur bar was not one of the MP's but probably a bike skidding to a halt outside the bar. His chair sound theory was proved wrong by journalists. Disabled former MP Freyja Haraldsdóttir has responded on Twitter that it must have been the sound of the wheels on her wheelchair skidding.

Protesters outside the house of parliament.

Crowds protest and demand resignations from the six MP's in scandalous bar recording

1 Dec 2018 "I don't want shitheads at parliament," said one protestor speaking to mbl.is at a crowded but peaceful protest at Austurvöllur parliament square this afternoon in the bitter cold. Protestor demanded resignation from the MP's whose bar conversation was secretly recorded and leaked to the press. The three hour long conversation contained insults towards multiple female MP's, homophobic slurs and making fun of a disabled deputy MP.

MP in bar scandal apologizes and goes on leave from duties at parliament

1 Dec 2018 Centre party MP Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson sent a statement to press last night where he says that he showed a great lack of judgment at the Klaustur bar last week, in a conversation that was recorded and made public.

"Shocked by what he heard"

30 Nov 2018 The man who recorded the loud bar conversation by MP's at Reykjavik's Klaustur bar and who wishes to remain anonymous says he's not a particularly political person but began recording the conversation because he was shocked by what he heard.