EVENTS
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Reykjavík Queer Choir Spring Concert
Reykjavík Queer Choir’s annual spring concert will be held at 6:30 pm on Friday, May 24, at Harpa concert hall.
The choir is known for a wide variety of music and will perform pieces from different categories, from old Icelandic choir songs to new pop songs in Icelandic and English.
The choir was founded in the July 2011 and has since performed at multiple events including the opening ceremony of Reykjavík Gay Pride.
The spring concert is a fundraising event for the choir’s trip to Dublin in the summer of 2014 where the choir is scheduled to take part in Various Voice, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered choral event.
The conductor is Helga Margrét Marzellíusardóttir.
For more information visit harpa.is.
Reykjavík Art Museum – Hafnarhús
Exhibitions
Erró – Graphic Art, 1949 – 2009
For the first time the general public are able to view Erró’s graphic art spanning half a century. The exhibition is the result of three years’ work researching and registrating the
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11/01/2013 | 10:53
Interior Minister Calls for Surveillance of Pedophiles
A bill is awaiting the first round of discussions in Alþingi, the Icelandic parliament, which authorizes surveillance of pedophiles after they have served their sentences. Minister of the Interior Ögmundur Jónasson submitted the bill in November.
“I’m hoping that the bill can become law within a few weeks. We have made this matter absolute priority,” Ögmundur told Fréttablaðið.
According to the bill, convicted pedophiles can be monitored electronically, among other methods, and their dwellings and medical treatment can be determined if deemed likely that they will commit further crimes.
Ögmundur said the surveillance must be determined by a judge before the convicts complete their sentences. “It will never be the decision of the police or prison authorities.”
A known pedophile who has confessed to having sexually abused children for 50 years has now been taken into custody after RÚV’s news magazine Kastjós’s coverage of the experiences of many of his victims this week.
The violations committed against them have become invalid before the law but yesterday three individuals had filed charges of sexual abuse against the man which may be recent enough for him to be convicted. The police expected more charges to be filed.
Yesterday’s Kastljós can be watched online on ruv.is (in Icelandic).
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