A Norwegian politician has spoken of how how he felt guilty that the Somali asylum seeker who raped him was deported. Karsten Nordal Hauken, from Ås, Akershus, was raped in his home and the perpetrator was subsequently caught and jailed for 4.5 years. However, when Nordal Hauken found out that the man was to be deported back to Somalia after serving his time, he reveals he felt guilt that the man would possibly face hardship in his old country.Nordal Hauken has told his story as part of a television series on Norwegian state broadcaster NRK called Jeg mot Meg [Me against Myself] about mental illness and psychological struggles.
Nordal Hauken, who describes himself as a ‘young Socialist Left Party member, feminist and anti-racist’, was attacked in his own home.

The politician reveals that he struggled to come to terms with being a heterosexual male rape victim, and subsequently self-medicated with alcohol and cannabis.

‘I am a heterosexual man who was raped by a Somalian asylum seeker,’ Nordal Hauken writes for NRK.

‘My life fell into ruin, but now I feel guilty about him being sent out of the country.’

He reveals how he was called up by the prison shortly before the perpetrator was to be deported to Somalia, having served 4.5 years in prison for the rape.

‘I felt relief and happiness that he would be gone forever. I felt like the Norwegian State had taken responsibility to carry out the ultimate revenge, like an angry father confronting it’s child’s attacker.

‘But I also had a strong feeling of guilt and responsibility. I was the reason that he would not be in Norway anymore, but rather sent to a dark uncertain future in Somalia

He adds: I see him mostly like a product of an unfair world, a product of an upbringing marked by war and despair.

(dailymail)

The deputy mayor of Oslo has generated a wave of support after revealing that her stepfather repeatedly raped her from when she was seven years old. “I was seven or eight years old the first time he raped me,” Libe Rieber-Mohn told TV2 on Sunday.

“We were staying at my grandmother’s house and slept in the same room. I had fallen asleep. I woke up with him lying on top of me, and raping me.

I remember how terribly painful it was.

What was perhaps most shocking about Rieber-Mohn’s story on TV2 was that even though doctors who examined her as a young girl noted down in her medical records that she had been raped, no one reported anything to the police or social services.

In a decision deemed “devastating” for the 17-year-old girl who claimed she was raped, prosecutors have dropped all charges against the former deputy leader of the Liberal Party, Helge Solum Larsen. The girl, a member of the party’s youth wing, accused the 43-year-old politician of raping her after a local branch of the party held its annual conference in Suldal, south-western Norway, in February this year. While he admitted having sex with the girl, Solum Larsen claimed it was consensual.The girl’s lawyer, Berit Johannessen, said her client was deeply disappointed by the announcement on Wednesday that chief public prosecutor Harald Grønlien was dropping the case due to insufficient evidence.
“As things stood, it is a very surprising dismissal and it feels very distressing for my client. She is devastated,” said Johannessen.

The 17-year-old will now consider whether to appeal the ruling to the prosecutor’s office.

“This girl has just told the truth about what happened to her. Now she feels badly treated. She says it’s as if her entire adolescence was destroyed by this assault, while the guilty party has got away with it,” said Johannessen.

“At the same time the strain has been enormous, and it will be a major burden for her to push on with the case.”

Speaking to news agency NTB, Solum Larsen’s lawyer Inger Marie Sunde said her client was “pleased and relieved that the public prosecutor has dropped the case.”

“He now hopes soon to be able to put all this behind him,” she said.

Solum Larsen resigned from the Liberal Party (Venstre) and was briefly admitted to a psychiatric ward at Stavanger University Hospital in the days after the scandal broke.

(NTB/The Local)

State secretary Roger Ingebrigtsens sexual relationship with the 17 year old member of The Workers’ Youth League (Norway’s largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labour Party) is supposed to have been known internal in the party. The relationship lasted for about a year, Roger Ingebrigtsens was 37 at the time of the affair.The press is dwelling over the timing of the release of the information.

And Ingebrigtsens is getting massive support in social media. Apparently in many peoples opinion there is nothing wrong for an adult to have a relation with a 17 year old, who he also is above in command.

Former unprofessional Minister of Children and Equality, Audun Lysbakken, of the Socialist Left Party, has been accused of funneling 500,000 NOK in funds to self (sex) – defense classes that were run by the party’s own women.
 unprofessional 34 years old Lysbakken has accepted the criticism, and blames the secret funding on poor judgment, lack of time and misunderstandings. The Norwegian newspaper, Dagbladet, broke the news about the secret transaction, which took place last fall. Initially, Lysbakken claimed that all procedures had been followed, but later admitted that an error had been made. He promised a full review of the department’s transactions.

The Committee of Scrutiny and Constitutional Affairs has unanimously decided to open a case against Audun Lysbakken, for alleged breach of protocol.

According to Lysbakken, the breach of protocol was due to lack of time, procedural failures and poor political judgment. Transparency International Norway, however, says that the breach of protocol reminds them of political corruption.

The Former Minster of Children and Equality, Audun Lysbakken, of the Socialist Left Party (SV), stepped down because of the controversy over his funding but later, National Assembly of the Socialist Left Party (SV), elected the former Minister of Children and Equality, unprofessional 34 years old Audun Lysbakken as their new leader.

Lysbakken describes himself as a Marxist and wished to ”abolish capitalism” as well as the Oslo Stock Exchange.

SV’s new leader, Audun Lysbakken, moved against Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg’s action and acted ”tit for tat” to his Former Ministry of Children and Equality and appointed Inga Marte Thorkildsen to Minister of Child and Equality.

The fact that veteran politician, and former SV leader well-known and internationally recognized Symbol Of World Peace Solheim removed by Audun Lysbakken and new deputy leaders Heikki Holm’s to the post of Minister of International Development, Bard Vegard Solhjell to the post of Environmental Minister.

During the trial of sexual assault accused Vågå mayor from Labor Party(Ap) Rune Øygard, it was claimed that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg knew of the alleged relationship between the minor girl and the mayor. According to Norwegian daily Dagbladet, the 16-year-old girl explained in interviews that Rune Øygard (Ap)said her that Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg knew about their relationship, and that Stoltenberg said the alleged relationship was fine.
Øygard was charged with sexual abuse of a girl in September 2011. The abuse allegedly took place during the period when the girl was 13 to 15 years old. According to the girl’s lawyer, Nina Braathen Hjortdal, it involves several sexual encounters over a long period. The mayor denies the serious allegations and he will be on sick leave until the charges will be clarified.

However, neither the police or the girl’s counsel are to confirm whether they are familiar with the new allegations about what Øygard should have said about Stoltenberg. The police also have not found it necessary to question Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg about the allegations.

(tnp)

Trond Birkedal, the former top politician who was the Progress Party’s candidate for mayor of Stavanger, was acquitted on Thursday of charges he’d sexually assaulted minors under the age of 16. He was convicted, though, of secretly filming young naked men in his home and acquiring nude photos under false pretenses. Birkedal, whose arrest last year was another major blow for his party, was sentenced to 60 days in prison but 40 of them were suspended.
Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported that Birkedal won’t need to serve more jail time because he gets credit for time spent in remand custody after he was first arrested last spring.
“He had 13 days in remand custody, so then sentence is viewed as having been served in its entirety,” Judge Bjørn Enoksen-Ristesund said in court.
The court found no evidence of charges Birkedal had assaulted two boys who were younger than 16 when the alleged assaults occurred. Birkedal, former head of the Progress Party’s youth organization, had denied the assaults.

He had confessed, though, to secretly filming young men who stayed at his home and used his bubble bath, admitting he had rigged up cameras to get naked video of them. He also confessed to enticing young boys to remove their clothes on the Internet and send him naked photos of themselves. He did that by using a false identity on the Internet.

The judge relied on testimony by a sexologist who claimed it was difficult for males to accept their homosexuality. “Suppression of his (homosexuality) was probably the reason that he communicated under a false identity,” Enoksen-Ristesund said, adding that he believes the case has hit Birkedal hard.

Prosecutors had sought a nine-month jail term for Birkedal. Birkedal, age 31, said he was relieved, he already has expressed deep regret, and now he hopes to get on with his life.

“It’s very serious to be convicted, but I hope this can end this case, that it makes up for what I’ve done and that I can move forward,” he told reporters after the judge’s ruling. Prosecutors may appeal the judge’s ruling, but hadn’t made any decisions as of Thursday afternoon.

Birkedal added that his relief over his acquittal “was dampened, since I know that I have done something wrong to someone.” Birkedal refused to say whether he hoped to return to politics. “Today is not the day to talk about any political comeback,” he told NRK.

There have been twice as many rapes committed in Oslo so far this year as in the whole of 2010, nearly all of them by immigrants, Oslo Police statistics have revealed. Of the 48 rapes committed in the city in 2011, a suspected 45 are from people of a ‘non-Western background’ (code for non-white), most of whom are said to be asylum seekers.
A huge influx in immigration into the city has seen the number of rapes go up by a shocking 84 percent in the past decade, and by 20 percent in the last three years alone.
Last Saturday 300 people marched through the streets of Oslo in a torch-lit demonstration against rape called ‘From fear to action – Take back the night’, protesting about their lack of safety.

However, despite the police deploying 20 extra officers at the weekend, six more rapes and sexual assaults were reported by Monday.

On Saturday evening, two 16-year-old girls were raped at the Oslo S train station. Five men aged 16–20 from Afghanistan and Pakistan were arrested.

Another woman was raped in Slottsparken, just metres away from Norway’s royal palace. The 20-year-old described one of her two attackers as ‘dark-skinned and round in the face’. On Sunday morning a 17-year-old girl was found naked in the street after running from an attacker in her flat.

The same morning, an 18-year-old woman was raped by two men in Vaterlandsparken, and a 20-year-old woman reported a taxi driver who tried to force her to perform oral sex on him in his car.

Another rape attempt and a mugging of a woman took place in the district of Bislett. A newspaper report said men from Sri Lanka and Iran were arrested.

The huge overrepresentation of foreign rapists in Oslo and other Norwegian towns has become so undeniable it has prompted mainstream politicians to speak out on the problem.

Høyre (Conservative) politician André Oktay Dahl told television channel TV 2 that ‘it cannot be denied that many of the culprits have an ethnic background with a critical view of women’.

Oslo’s mayor Fabian Stang, also from Høyre, said to broadcaster NRK: ‘I’m afraid the time is ripe to consider a way of limiting [asylum seekers’] freedom, even though I find this difficult.

‘It seems we have a big problem regarding assault rapes and asylum seekers. Not putting somebody in jail before they have committed a crime is an important principle, and we must not stigmatise certain groups, but at the same time, I feel the women are paying the price for these principles, and I think we should be able to discuss whether this is right.’

Police and immigration authorities have criticised Mr Stang for his comments, stating that just because police figures ‘show the majority of assailants are described as non-Nordic doesn’t mean they are asylum seekers’. That politically correct rebuke is contradicted somewhat by the fact that the country’s Directorate of Immigration (UDI) routinely screens a two-minute animation film to asylum seekers, instructing them that ‘rape is wrong’.

Fremskrittspartiet (Progress Party) leader Siv Jensen also spoke out on the matter, grilling prime minister Jens Stoltenberg in parliament.

She said: ‘Unfortunately, it is a fact that asylum seekers are overrepresented in these statistics. When does the government plan to implement measures so women can feel safe?’

Sadly for Norwegian women, the obvious measure to stop nearly all such rapes, ceasing immigration and deporting all so-called asylum seekers, is not on the liberal government’s agenda.

Instead, Stoltenberg has travelled to Copenhagen to speak with its mayor and chief of police to take advice on reducing the number of assaults. One of the ‘solutions’ proposed is increased surveillance at bus stops and other public transport hubs, further limiting the privacy and rights of native Norwegians because of the dangers imposed on them by their elected politicians.

Sadly, Copenhagen isn’t in much of a position to offer advice on the situation anyway; 44 rapes were committed there in 2010, in a city not much bigger than Oslo. Heavily Muslim Stockholm has also seen a rise in cases, with 15 more instances this year than last.

A reported severe lack of resources for Norwegian police forces has also been blamed for the rise in rapes, leading some journalists to question the government’s continued obsession with foreign aid and providing generous benefits packages to bogus asylum seekers at the expense of funding the protection of their own people.

(BNP)

As investigations into indicted deputy Liberal (V) leader Helge Solum Larsen’s alleged rape of a 17-year-old girl continue, police say they have now secured items at the scene. Crime technicians began their work at the Ryfylke Fjord Hotel, Wednesday. Whilst work is expected to last until early evening at the latest, the room, which has been sealed off since the alleged crime took place, was cleaned on Sunday as personnel was unaware of events, making investigations more challenging. Police will not reveal what was seized, or where.There has also been speculation today whether alcohol may have been involved. Liberal politicians say there was neither any served at the tables for dinner, nor for the past three years’ meetings.
“There was no opportunity to buy wine at the table, either. People had to purchase it at the bar and pay for it themselves. The Liberal Party in Rogaland’s regime is the strictest when it comes to alcohol,” local Stavanger-based group leader Per A. Thorbjørnsen tells Aftenbladet.

Hotel manager Tina Cosette Asbjørnsen, “Turnover at the bar was extremely low that evening, so it was by no means a drunken party.”

News of Helge Solum Larsen’s presumed sexual offence broke at yesterday evening’s press conference in Stavanger. Per A. Thorbjørnsen said, “The alleged rape happened at Rogaland Liberals’ annual conference. He acknowledges they had sex but not that it was rape.”

The victim, who was staying at the hotel in Suldal, western Norway, took the first boat from Sand to Stavanger on Sunday morning, and went straight to the sexual assault referral centre. Police were notified on Monday, but did not interview her until yesterday afternoon.

“My client does not wish to comment about this matter so much. She has had some very difficult days and wants peace,” said the victim’s lawyer, Berit Johannessen.

43-year-old Mr Solum Larsen has since resigned all political offices and is currently in a psychiatric ward at Stavanger University Hospital, where he will receive professional help and assistance, according to Mr Thorbjørnsen.

Officers are still waiting to question him, and his mobile phone has been confiscated as part of police’s wish to secure evidence.

His lawyer, Inger Marie Sunde, says “I have not yet had a chance to have a thorough conversation with him, but this will take place as soon as he is ready.”

(theforeigner)

Member of Parliament for the right wing Progress Party (FrP), Bård Hoksrud, has admitted to buying sex from a prostitute in Riga. He has now offered to resign from all political positions. Since 2008 it has been illegal for Norwegians to purchase sex, both in Norway and abroad. Hoksrud may be fined up to NOK 25,000.He may also been be thrown out of the party. He will, however keep his post as member of Parliament (Stortinget), to which he was elected from the county of Buskerud in 2005.

(NRK/tv2/norwaypost)