An Apology Nine Years in the Making

“I can on behalf of the Icelandic government, here, from this chair, ask those that came at this time and suffered violations in this way to accept an apology,” Skarphéðinsson told the Althingi, Iceland’s Parliament on May 27.
An Apology Nine Years in the Making
SORRY: Iceland's Foreign Minister Ossur Skarpheoinsson apologizes to Falun Gong during a session of the Althingi, Iceland's Parliament, on May 27. The country's prime minister, Johanna Siguroardottir, sits to the left. Althingi of Iceland
Matthew Robertson
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SORRY: Iceland's Foreign Minister Ossur Skarpheoinsson apologizes to Falun Gong during a session of the Althingi, Iceland's Parliament, on May 27. The country's prime minister, Johanna Siguroardottir, sits to the left. (Althingi of Iceland)
Matthew Robertson
Matthew Robertson
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Matthew Robertson is the former China news editor for The Epoch Times. He was previously a reporter for the newspaper in Washington, D.C. In 2013 he was awarded the Society of Professional Journalists’ Sigma Delta Chi award for coverage of the Chinese regime's forced organ harvesting of prisoners of conscience.