Fosen is a traditional district in Trøndelag,consisting of the municipalities Osen,Roan,Åfjord,Ørland,Indre Fosen,Orkland,Heim,Hitra and Frøya. The district is dominated by forested valleys,lakes,coastal cliffs but also shallow areas,and in the interior mountains reaching up to 675 m elevation. The western coast has many skerries and some islands,such as Stokkøya in Åfjord. There are some good salmon rivers,and sea eagles and other sea birds are very common along the coast,notably on the shallow area near Ørland (Grandefjæra). The west coast has mild winters,and some locations receive on average more than 2,000 mm of precipitation per year. Part of the Scandinavian coastal conifer forests are located in the valleys of the peninsula,and smaller areas are classified as temperate rainforest with 67 nature reserves. The largest nature reserve is Øyenskavelen,with many nature types including undisturbed forest,some of it classified as rainforest.
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.
Lene Camilla Westgaard-Halle is a Norwegian political scientist from Drammen,and politician for the Conservative Party.
Erik Andersen,also referred to in the media as The Pocket Man,is a convicted Norwegian child molester from Bergen. He was arrested in 2008,accused of molesting hundreds of children since 1976,and in 2010,he was convicted and sentenced to preventive detention with a minimum term of 9 years,with the possibility of extension for as long as he is deemed a danger to society. He was released in November 2014.
Jack Erik Kjuus was a Norwegian far-right politician of the former White Electoral Alliance who was convicted of racism in 1997. The party Kjuus led was a merger between two anti-immigrant parties,Stop the Immigration and Hjelp de fremmede hjem ellers mister vi landet vårt.
The Baneheia murders was a double rape and murder,and a miscarriage of justice,that occurred in Norway on 19 May 2000. The victims were two girls,10-year-old Lena Sløgedal Paulsen and 8-year-old Stine Sofie Austegard Sørstrønen. They were found raped and killed in the Baneheia area in Kristiansand. The murders received massive media attention in Norway in the early 2000s.
Mina Gerhardsen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party.
Richard August Riekeles was a Norwegian barrister.
Fjotolf Hansen,better known by his birth name Anders Behring Breivik,is a Norwegian neo-Nazi terrorist. He is known primarily for committing the 2011 Norway attacks on 22 July 2011,in which he killed eight people by detonating a van bomb at Regjeringskvartalet in Oslo,and then killed 69 participants of a Workers' Youth League (AUF) summer camp,in a mass shooting on the island of Utøya.
The trial of Anders Behring Breivik,the perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks,took place between 16 April and 22 June 2012 in Oslo District Court. Breivik was sentenced to 21 years of preventive detention on 24 August 2012. 170 media organisations were accredited to cover the proceedings,involving some 800 individual journalists.
Svein Holden is a Norwegian lawyer having prosecuted several major criminal cases in Norway. Together with prosecutor Inga Bejer Engh Holden prosecuted terror suspect Anders Behring Breivik in the 2012 trial following the 2011 Norway attacks.
Wenche Elizabeth Arntzen is a Norwegian lawyer and judge. She was appointed to the Supreme Court of Norway on 20 June 2014,having previously been a judge at the Oslo District Court.
Trans Polar A/S was a Norwegian charter airline which operated between June 1970 and May 1971. The airline operated a fleet of three Boeing 720s and had a close cooperation with Aer Lingus for maintenance. Trans Polar was established by Thor Tjøntveit,although he never held any management positions. The airline was headquartered in Oslo,although most of the flights operated out of Copenhagen,Denmark,which was the base of Spies Rejser,Trans Polar's largest customer. The airline held operating permission from Norway and Denmark,but not Sweden;nevertheless,they operated several illegal flights out of Stockholm.
Geir Eriksen,former names Geir Selvik and Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen,is a Norwegian con artist and convicted felon. He formerly worked as a private investigator for criminal clients,and became known for fabricating material in the Arne Treholt case;it was subsequently revealed that he had engaged in similar fraud in a large number of other cases. He was charged with aggravated fraud and forgery;he pled guilty to all charges and in 2018 was sentenced to three years in prison and to pay 7 million kr in restitution. As of 2021 Malthe-Sørenssen was an inmate at Romerike Prison. He has changed his names several times,but is best known under the name Geir Selvik Malthe-Sørenssen,his legal name from 2010 to 2017. In 2021 his former wife Ida Marie Hansen published the book Jeg var gift med en bedrager about the Malthe-Sørenssen case.
Central Jamaat-e Ahl-e Sunnat is a congregation and mosque of the Pakistani community in Oslo,Norway with 6,000 members,making it the largest mosque in the country. Within Sunni Islam,the mosque is affiliated with Sufism and the Barelvi movement.
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.
The Bærum mosque shooting or Al-Noor Islamic Centre shooting occurred on 10 August 2019 at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre mosque in Bærum,Norway,about 20 kilometres (12 mi) west of the capital city Oslo. Philip Manshaus,a 21-year-old Norwegian man,shot and killed his adopted stepsister at their home. He then drove to the mosque and shot his way through the glass door before opening fire,hitting no one. He was subdued by three worshippers after a scuffle and turned over to police. Manshaus was convicted of murder and committing an act of terrorism,and sentenced to 21 years preventative detention - an order which,in Norway,can be extended indefinitely.
The Støre Cabinet is the incumbent government of the Kingdom of Norway,headed by Labour Party leader Jonas Gahr Støre as Prime Minister. The government was appointed by King Harald V on 14 October 2021,following the parliamentary election on 13 September,consisting of the Labour Party (Ap) and the Centre Party (Sp) as a minority government.
The Norwegian Social Security scandal,also called the NAV scandal,was a legal and political affair in Norway that came to light in 2019. It is believed that at least 80 people were wrongly convicted of social security fraud,and that at least 2,400 social security recipients had been wrongfully demanded payment. This was because the Storting,the courts and the administration had interpreted the EEA regulations incorrectly.
Øystein Ola Storrvik is a Norwegian lawyer,and the criminal defense lawyer,of Anders Behring Breivik,the terrorist behind the 2011 Norway attacks.
