The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday December 17th, 2021 – International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers
Jailing Former Immigration Ministers: Denmark’s Inger Støjberg by Dr. Binoy Kampmark
It’s not the sort of thing you encounter regularly. A member of a government cabinet, responsible for arguably one of the country’s most important portfolios, found both wanting and culpable for their actions after leaving their post. But this is what former Danish immigration minister Inger Støjberg found when she was convicted for illegally separating asylum seeking couples arriving in the country.
A Danish court of impeachment, in finding the former minister guilty for intentionally neglecting her duties under the Ministerial Responsibility Act, sentenced her to 60 days in prison. Of the 26 members of the court, only one found for the ex-minister.
It was only the third time since 1910 that a politician has been referred to the impeachment court. The last was in 1993, when former Conservative justice minister Erik Ninn-Hansen faced proceedings for illegally halting the family reunification of Tamil refugees in 1987 and 1988.
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It was the Laughter #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“Laughingest man! – it wasn’t an act, it was desperation.
It was larger than yourself, little man.
They all said you’d come to an end with it some day, kill yourself with it:
the veins standing out in your temples, ready to burst,
That cackle, those whoops, sweat dripping off your face.”
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A fistful of cactus 21#13 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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