The Workers' Youth League is Norway's largest political youth organization and is affiliated with the Norwegian Labour Party.
Najmadin Vahid Faraj Ahmad,better known as Mullah Krekar,is an Iraqi Kurdish Sunni Islamic scholar and militant who was the founder and former leader of Islamist militant group Ansar al-Islam. He is currently serving a prison sentence in Italy,after having been extradited from Norway in 2020. He came to Norway as a refugee from Iraqi Kurdistan in 1991. His wife,Rukhosh Ahmad,and his four children have Norwegian citizenship,but not Krekar himself. He speaks Kurdish,Arabic,Persian,Norwegian and English.
Per Sandberg is a Norwegian politician for the Capitalist Party and formerly the Progress Party who served as the Norwegian Minister of Fisheries from 2015 to 2018. Sandberg was a member of the Norwegian parliament from 1997 to 2017,and served as chair of the parliamentary standing committees on Justice,and Transport and Communications. He has additionally held the position of first deputy leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2018. In 1997 he was convicted of assault and battery of an asylum seeker. His status as a convicted felon has made him controversial in Norwegian politics.
Knut Arild Hareide is a Norwegian politician who served as a member of parliament from Hordaland and as the leader of the Christian Democratic Party from 2011 to 2019. He served as Minister of Transport and Communications from 2020 to 2021,and as Minister of the Environment from 2004 to 2005 in the second Bondevik cabinet. In 2007,he announced he would step down from the national political scene for the time being,but he returned when he was nominated as the top candidate for the Christian Democratic Party ticket in Akershus in the 2009 election where he won the county's leveling seat. After Dagfinn Høybråten stepped down as party leader,Hareide was unanimously elected to take his place at the 2011 party convention. In the 2013 election,Hareide was reelected to parliament,this time from his home county of Hordaland.
Erling Folkvord was a Norwegian politician for the Red Party and a member of the Parliament of Norway. A revolutionary socialist,he was one of the leading members of the Workers' Communist Party and the Red Electoral Alliance before they merged to form Red. He sat as a member of the Parliament of Norway from 1993 to 1997,becoming the first socialist to the left of the Socialist Left Party and the Labour Party in parliament since 1961. He later lost his position in 1997 and was a candidate for parliament until his death. He was a member of the Oslo City Council from 1983 to 1993,and again from 1999 to 2011. Folkvord became one of the best-known Norwegian politicians on the left who was not connected with the Labour Party and the Socialist Left Party.
Jonas Gahr Støre is a Norwegian politician who has served as the 36th and current Prime Minister of Norway since 2021 and has been Leader of the Labour Party since 2014. He served under Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2005 to 2012 and as Minister of Health and Care Services from 2012 to 2013. He has been a Member of the Storting for Oslo since 2009.
Thomas Breen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party. He represented Hedmark in the Norwegian Parliament from 2009 to 2013,where he was elected to deputise for Knut Storberget,who was appointed to a government position. He previously served as a deputy representative from 2005 to 2009,during which he deputised for Storberget.
Siv Jensen is a Norwegian politician who served as the leader of the Progress Party from 2006 to 2021. She also held the position as Minister of Finance from 2013 to 2020 in the Solberg Cabinet. She was also a member of the Norwegian parliament from Oslo from 1997 to 2021.
The Workers' Youth League affair was a political affair,where leaders of the Workers' Youth League (AUF) were charged with deliberately inflating membership numbers to receive increased government funding. Two former treasurers and two former leaders of the Oslo chapter were found guilty of fraud,and given prison sentences,for having unlawfully received 648,000 kr in grants from the City of Oslo between 1992 and 1994. The convicted were Ragnar Bøe Elgsaas,Anders Hornslien,Bjørn Jarle Rødberg Larsen and Anders Greif Mathisen. Anders Mathisen's sentence was suspended.
Fredrik Ludvig Fasting Torgersen was a Norwegian man who was convicted of murder in 1958 in a much-debated case,and released from prison in 1974.
Anders Anundsen is a Norwegian politician for the Progress Party who served as Minister of Justice from 2013 to 2016. He was also a member of the Norwegian parliament,representing Vestfold from 2005 to 2017.
Øystein Mæland is a Norwegian psychiatrist,civil servant and politician for the Labour Party. In 2011,Mæland was appointed director of the National Police Directorate,a position he retained until August 2012 when he resigned in the wake of the Gjørv Report. He has since 2014 been director of Akershus University Hospital.
Knut Rød was a Norwegian police prosecutor responsible for the arrest,detention and transfer of Jewish men,women and children to SS troops at Oslo harbor. For these and other actions related to the Holocaust in Norway,Rød was acquitted in two highly publicized trials during the legal purge in Norway after World War II that remain controversial to this day. The trials and their outcome have since been dubbed the "strangest trial in post-war Norway."
Nini Stoltenberg was a Norwegian television personality and sister of Jens Stoltenberg,former prime minister of Norway,and Camilla Stoltenberg,the director-general of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. She was,however,better known as a drug addict,and has been cited as such by Norwegian media on numerous occasions. She has often been depicted as an unofficial spokesperson for Norwegian drug users. Stoltenberg was part of a 12-member group of expert advisers on drug policies for the second cabinet Bondevik (2001–2005).
Hadia Tajik is a Pakistani-Norwegian jurist,journalist and politician from the Labour Party. She served as Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion from 2021 to 2022. She previously served as Minister of Culture from 2012 to 2013. She was 29 years of age at the time and became the youngest minister to serve in the Norwegian government. She is the first Cabinet member that is a Muslim. Tajik has served as a Member of Parliament representing Rogaland since 2017,and Oslo from 2009 to 2017. She was also the party's deputy leader from 2015 until 2022.
Janne Kristiansen is a Norwegian jurist. She was the first head of the Criminal Cases Review Commission from 2004 to 2009. and head of the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) from 2009 to 2012,a position from which she resigned following a heavily politicized scandal.
The 2011 Norway attacks,referred to in Norway as 22 July or as 22/7,were two domestic terrorist attacks by far right extremist Anders Behring Breivik against the government,the civilian population,and a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp,in which a total of 77 people were killed.
Rune Øygard is a former Norwegian politician representing the Norwegian Labour Party,who served as mayor of Vågåfrom 1995 to 2012 when he was granted leave following his indictment for child sexual abuse in a much publicized case,the so-called Vågåcase. On 17 December 2012,he was found guilty of child sexual abuse,including sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl,and sentenced to 4 years imprisonment. The same day,he resigned as mayor.
Emilie Enger Mehl is a Norwegian politician for the Centre Party. She has served as minister of justice since 2021 and member of parliament for Hedmark since 2017.
Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark. The new county has an area of 52,113 square kilometres (20,121 sq mi),making it the largest county in Norway after Troms og Finnmark was split up in 2024.
