Denmark’s former immigration minister has been sentenced to two months in prison after a special court found her guilty of illegally separating several couples of asylum seekers where the woman was a minor.
“Inger Stojberg 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.
Stojberg was accused of violating the European Convention on Human Rights by ordering the separation of asylum-seeking couples, some of whom had children, when the woman was under the age of 18.
This is only the third time since 1910 that a politician has been referred to the 26-judge special court in Denmark, which is designed to try ministers for malpractice or negligence while in office.
The last case dates back to 1993 with “Tamilgate”, the illegal freezing of family reunification of Tamil refugees in 1987 and 1988 by former Conservative justice minister Erik Ninn-Hansen.
Ninn-Hansen ended up with a four-month suspended prison sentence.
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