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Following a few months of relaxed measures, where people could socialise and go about most of their daily business, Norway closed its borders on 29 January 2021, after a new strain of COVID-19 was detected in the UK. Large parts of the Oslo region are also in lockdown.
But with the new variant of the virus spreading in Norway, conflict over the countermeasures is heating up.
Xenophobia and the virus in the mainstream
In Norway, there was a broad political consensus around the need for the lockdown and economic support measures that were introduced in March 2020.
But unlike many other far-Right parties across the rest of the world, the FrP has shown no support for anti-vaxxers and COVID-19 deniers. In fact, the pandemic hasn´t given the FrP many chances to shine.
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The partner of Norway s former justice minister, a member of a right-wing anti-immigration party, was sentenced to 20 months in prison on Friday for making threats against him and attacks against democracy.
In the extraordinary case, Laila Anita Bertheussen, 55, was accused of staging attacks against her own household and making threats against another couple in the Progress Party in an attempt, according to the prosecution, to put the blame on the Black Box theatre group.
In December 2018, the 55-year-old filed a complaint against Black Box for showing pictures of the homes of several politicians including the home Bertheussen shared with her partner, Tor Mikkel Wara as part of a play aimed at demonstrating who was profiting from a more segregated and racist Norway.