{"id":1117375,"date":"2021-12-14T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117375"},"modified":"2021-12-14T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T14:59:10","slug":"ex-danish-minister-convicted-and-jailed-for-separating-child-brides-from-migrant-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-danish-minister-convicted-and-jailed-for-separating-child-brides-from-migrant-men\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Danish Minister Convicted and Jailed for Separating Child Brides from Migrant Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fex-danish-minister-convicted-and-jailed-for-separating-child-brides-from-migrant-men%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1117375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1235005637-e1639422795689-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Former Danish Migration Minister&nbsp;Inger St\u00f8jberg has been sentenced to 60 days in prison after being convicted of illegally separating child brides from migrant men in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The former&nbsp;Minister for Immigration and Integration, who served in the role from 2015 to 2019, was found guilty of violating the&nbsp;Ministerial Responsibility Act on Monday over her brief policy of separating couples \u2014 predominantly migrant men with underage wives \u2014 during the height of the European migrant crisis.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>St\u00f8jberg had separated 18 couples in 2016 after deciding migrant girls aged between 14 and 17 would not be accommodated in the same asylum reception facilities as their husbands, most of whom were adults.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/nyheder.tv2.dk\/politik\/2021-12-13-rigsretten-har-afsagt-dom-inger-stoejberg-skal-i-faengsel-i-60-dage\">report<\/a> from the Danish broadcaster TV2, the separation of the couples was found to be contrary to&nbsp;Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and several points of Danish administrative law.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"7\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Delingpole: Impeachment! Establishment Punishes Minister for Separating Child Brides from Migrants <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0AyDfoIGSz\">https:\/\/t.co\/0AyDfoIGSz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1433845495194169344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 3, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>St\u00f8jberg reacted to the verdict saying: \u201cI am very, very surprised, I have to say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is Danish values that have lost today,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is something very wrong when you cannot protect girls from the disgusting phenomenon of child brides,\u201d she continued, adding: \u201cI will take my punishment, and I do so without shame.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20211213133240\/https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-59636124\">notes<\/a> that the couples who were separated were \u201cyoung asylum-seeking couples\u201d, giving an example of a Syrian couple in which the man was aged 26 and his bride 17, Deutsche Welle states that some of the girls involved were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/denmark-begins-trial-of-former-immigration-minister-over-separating-migrant-couples\/a-59062650\">as young as 15<\/a> and the men as old as 32.<\/p>\n<p>A report from the <em>Times<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/migrant-child-brides-can-stay-with-husbands-52djb7l3g\">published<\/a> in 2016, claims that in at least two cases the girls were as young as 14 and that one of the 14-year-olds had been married to a 28-year-old man.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Following the announcement of the impeachment of&nbsp;St\u00f8jberg earlier this year, the former minister left the Liberal Party to become an independent member of the Danish parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In October, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/10\/09\/ex-danish-minister-teams-populists-50000-deportation-plan\/\">announced<\/a> a plan in partnership with the populist Danish People\u2019s Party (DF) that proposed to deport as many as 50,000 migrants by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Child brides have remained an issue among migrants from certain countries, with the most recent examples being seen following the evacuation of Afghanistan after the country fell to the Taliban in August.<\/p>\n<p>United States Secretary of State Tony Blinken <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/09\/14\/tony-blinken-confirms-child-brides-evacuated-with-older-men-from-afghanistan\/\">confirmed<\/a> in September that older men with child brides were among those evacuated from the country.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.0180722891566\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BreitbartNews<\/a>: Blinken Confirms Child Brides Evacuated with Older Men from Afghanistan <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ghTEdtzsid\">https:\/\/t.co\/ghTEdtzsid<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenTedCruz\/status\/1437881573546856449?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h5><span data-darkreader-inline-color><em><strong><span class=\"a-size-large\">Follow Chris Tomlinson on Twitter at&nbsp;<span data-darkreader-inline-color><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomlinsonCJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@TomlinsonCJ<\/a>&nbsp;<\/span>or email at&nbsp;ctomlinson(at)breitbart.com<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Danish Migration Minister\u00a0Inger St\u00f8jberg has been sentenced to 60 days in prison after being convicted of illegally separating child brides from migrant men in 2016. 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