BERGENS TIDENDE
BERGENS TIDENDE
3 best stories
1. The unlikely story about Zahra Maow,
the young girl from Yemen with a back
terribly deformed from tubercolosis at
young age, was BT’s most read story in
2014. Her story, and the story about the
people who helped her – and her final success in securing permanent residency in
Norway – touched hundreds of thousands.
http://www.bt.no/btmagasinet/Rakrygget-3201308.html
3 best pictures
3. When Monika, (8), was found dead in
her own home, police – and the media –
quickly wrote it off as a suicide. An investigator who looked into the story found the
evidence pointed in another direction –
the girl might have been muredered.
Leadership in the policed brushed him off.
Only when BT broke the story, was the
case reopened.
2. When ten year old Shaimaa was
sent from Norway, BT’s reporter Frøy
Gudbrandsen was the first to follow
the entire process. It also became the
beginning of BT’s series on the children
who are affected by Norwegian policy on
refugees and the political bickering about
it – leading among other things to a parliamentary hearing in 2015.
http://www.bt.no/spesial/asylbarna/#!/
The case and the police’s actions are still
being investigated, and Bergen’s police
commissioner has stepped down until
further notice.
http://www.bt.no/nyheter/lokalt/Etterforskeren-fryktet-Monika-8-var-drept-Sjefene-ba-ham-holde-seg-unna-saken-3195873.html
Asylum
Fire
Asylum
She came to Norway with a back totally
deformed by tuberculosis. When the police
wanted to throw her out, her doctors refused them to move her. BT was there when
Zahra’s biggest wish – a piece of paper from
the Norwegian government allowing her to
stay in the country – arrived in the form of a
letter. Photo: Eirik Brekke.
FIRE
Thirty-five buildings were destroyed by fire
when flames ravaged the small community
of Laerdal