Hunger strike in Iceland

A man from Algires ,Mr. Mansri Hichem ,is seeking a political asylum in Iceland .
He has been in Iceland for two years ,and has been denied asylum.
Mr. Mansri Hichem ,has appieled that decision of the department that covers foreigners in Iceland ,to the justice minister.
Mr. Mansri Hichem ,has been on a hunger strike now for 19 days,because of the long time it takes the goverment to make a decision.
He claims that he would be in danger from the goverment and terrorist group in is home country,if he would be denied a political asylum in Iceland..
He says that he has prrof of the danger against him in his home country
Now all asylum seekers at FIT in Njardvik in Iceland ,are going on a hunger strike if Mr. Mansri Hichem ,asylum request does not get a favorible conclusion.
He is under constant doctors supervision.

Here you can see a video on an Icelandic media

http://mbl.is/mm/frettir/innlent/2009/05/11/aetla_allir_i_hungurverkfall/?ref=fphelst

Iceland goverment talks to protesters

Group of people protested yesterday in Reykjavik.
They where protesting the goverment slow decision making.
They walked to the goverment house,and there ,Prime Minister ,Johanna ,invited them in for a informal discussion.
Very peacful protest,and protesters got answers

Corruption still on in Iceland

Now they are moving out of Iceland.
One of the bankers,who owned a shipping company and controlled a bank ,has moved to Russia .
He thought that when his legal address was in Russia,that the Icelandic courts could not get the money he owed because of his personal sequrities .
But that was not correct,he went bankrupt yesterday.
Rumors are that more bankers are moving to foreign countries.
Olafur Olafsson,owner of Samskip,and he controlled one of the banks,is said to be in Switserland .
Also Sigurður Einarsson ,Bank manager of Kaupthing Bank.

The former Bank Vikings have not been seen in public in Iceland.
The special prosecutor ,who was to investigate the crisis ,is not doing anything.
He was politically appointed byt the goverment that was in charge when the banking crisis began last october.

People calling in on talk radio stations in Iceland ,are furious.
Tax payers in Iceland must pay for their bad investments during the last few years,and nobody will be held responsable.

Unemployemnet in Iceland rising

Now in Iceland there are 17.735 unemployed.
That would be about 9 - 10 % of the working population .

Corruption is in Iceland ,according to Gallup

According to a Gallup poll in Iceland ,80% of the population thinks that corruption in the Icelandic buisness life.
And 70 % thinks that corruption is in the political arena.
50 % think that the Icelandic media is corrupt also.
About 50 % belive that buisness men use often or very frequently ,offer political memebers bribes to get them them to change policy and also law making at the Iceland Parliement.

Few years ago , a member of parliement was convicted of stealing from the govermnet and accepting bribes.
He was two years in jail --- but he was after that voted back into parliement .

Financial Civil War in Iceland ?

The public in Iceland is now organizing a group effort to stop paying their loans to the Banks in Iceland.
About 20.000 thousand individuals have signed up to a group - that is called - Hagsmunasamtok heimilanna ( homes interest group )
The foreign loans people took in good faith, are now skyrocketting,so people that invested with foreing loans a house ,worth 25 million kronas - is now the house is worth 22 million kronas,but the loans are in the 30 millions or more.
People are angry at the banks .
Many have stopped paying of their loans,and many more are going to stop paying.
One member called this a financial civil war !

Many former Bank employes ,who bought stock in the Banks ,and got loans for from their bank,they made private companys around their investment ,so they dont have to pay.
One of the employes of Kaupthing Bank ,is the husband of the former Educational minister ,Thorgerdur Katrin Gunnarsdottir.
People feel that the banks have stolen their money.
And still nobody is being investigated about the crisis.

May first parade in Iceland

Many attendend the may fist parade in Reykjavik.
Music and speaches where in downtown Reykjavik,in front of the Icelandic parliement building.
One of the Unions leader,got bood at during his speach -
He gets 7 time more pay then the people in the unions.
People where angry and bood at him ,when he held his speach.
No changes have been happening still in Iceland.
More people are getting unemployed ,and many are leaving Iceland to get work somewhere else.