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.
5 Feb 2019The 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.
25 Jan 2019Gunnar 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.
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."
24 Jan 2019Centre 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.
17 Jan 2019The 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.
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.
19 Dec 2018The 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.
18 Dec 2018Bára 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.
7 Dec 2018Newspaper 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.
5 Dec 2018 Iceland's Minister of Culture Lilja Alfreðsdóttir appeared on the Kastljós news programme tonight, speaking for the first time about her reaction to the comments made about her in bar conversation two weeks ago, recorded by a witness.
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.
3 Dec 2018 President of Parliament in Iceland, Steingrímur J.Sigfússon read a statement at Parliament today where he apologized on behalf of Parliament for the derogatory remarks made by six MP's about women, disabled people and the queer community. The matter is now under investigation by the parliamentary ethics regulations committee.
3 Dec 2018"He called to apologize and also explain to me how apparently I had misunderstood everything," says disabled activist Freyja Haraldsdóttir about a phonecall she received from leader of the Centre party, Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson.
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.
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