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A majority in the Danish parliament is to back an inquiry into an illegal directive issued by former Minister for Immigration and Integration Inger Støjberg. The inquiry will revolve around a 2016 directive issued by Støjberg while minister. The directive ordered authorities to forcibly separate, without individual case assessment, married couples given asylum in Denmark, provided one of the couple was under 18 years old.The directive was later found to be illegal and Støjberg faced a series of testing parliamentary hearings over it. […] Earlier this week, Støjberg announced she would stand for selection as the new deputy leader of...

Denmark’s minister for Immigration and Integration, Inger Støjberg, was hastily evacuated from the Sjælsmark deportation center for rejected asylum seekers after tensions escalated during a tense visit to the facility. Støjberg was escorted from the center by security guards after an incident while she was visiting the center, reports broadcaster DR. The minister was at the Sjælsmark deportation center as part of filming for the broadcaster’s 21 Søndag current affairs program, according to the report. Red-Green Alliance MP Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen was also at the center in connection with the program. The group had visited a family accommodated at the facility...

Denmark’s integration minister, Inger Støjberg, took to Facebook on Tuesday to praise the Mohammed cartoons that a dozen years ago plunged her country into its most severe international crisis ever. Støjberg shared a screenshot of her iPad background displaying cartoonist Kurt Westergaard’s drawing of the prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. She did so in response to the decision by Skovgaard Museum in Viborg to not display the 12 caricatures of Mohammed published by Jyllands-Posten newspaper as part of an exhibition on blasphemy. The integration minister said that the drawings, particularly the one by Westergaard that has led...