Category: Danmark

Former immigration minister Inger Støjberg was sentenced to 60 days in prison by a Danish impeachment court on December following the conclusion of a rare impeachment court trial over an illegal order she made in 2016 to separate asylum seeker couples. “Inger Støjberg is found guilty of a deliberate violation of the Ministerial Responsibility Act,” Denmark’s Court of Impeachment of the Realm said in a statement, adding that the punishment had been set at 60 days in jail. The verdict was delivered in Copenhagen by chair of the impeachment court, Thomas Rørdam, following…