7 Apr 2017Sisters Hlín Einarsdóttir and Malín Brand were found guilty for attempting to blackmail Icelandic Prime Minister and were sentenced 12 months in prison. “Shockingly harsh,” says Brand’s attorney.
1 Jan 2017As the new year begins, Iceland Monitor takes a look back over 2016 and some of its most popular news stories for each month. Which is your favourite?
4 Nov 2016Sisters Hlín Einarsdóttir and Malín Brand have been formally charged with attempting to blackmail then Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson and his wife in May last year.
27 Apr 2016Just weeks after Iceland’s political class was rocked by an exposé of dealings in offshore tax havens, journalists at Reykjavik Media are now preparing to blow the whistle on the country’s powerful fisheries industry.
6 Apr 2016Iceland Monitor has received numerous requests from media around the world in the wake of the Panama Papers scandal currently rocking the country.
6 Apr 2016The effects of the current Panama Papers unrest in Iceland are not just political. Iceland’s OMX18 stock exchange plunged yesterday as the PM and President held crisis talks.
5 Apr 2016The Prime Minister's office in Iceland has just issued a press statement in English to the international press saying that the Prime Minister has not resigned, merely stepped aside for an unspecified amount of time and will continue to serve as the Chairman of the Progressive Party.
5 Apr 2016Iceland’s embattled Prime Minister Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson met today with the President at the presidential residence, where the two spoke about the current political situation.
5 Apr 2016“If our coalition partners feel unable to support the government, I shall dissolve Parliament and call early general elections,” Iceland’s Prime Minister has announced.
5 Apr 2016Iceland’s embattled Prime Minister suffered a further blow to his leadership yesterday evening as fellow party councillors from Iceland’s second largest city publicly declared against him.
5 Apr 2016Anti-government protests in Iceland will continue into today, as the country’s Prime Minister – implicated in the recent Panama Papers revelations – and his government hang by a thread.
4 Apr 2016Irate voters pelted the walls of the Icelandic Parliament with eggs and bananas, while inside fuming opposition MPs took the floor one after another to demand the resignation of the Prime Minister.
4 Apr 2016Police are in riot gear and iron fences are up ahead of an anti-government protest planned for 5pm today in the Icelandic capital of Reykjavik.
4 Apr 2016The first punch has been thrown in today’s anti-government protest – in the form of three tubs of Icelandic cultured yoghurt thrown against the parliament building.
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