Background
In the early 1980s there a were series of allegations of police brutality in Iceland, leading to the prosecution of members of the Reykjavik police.
Thorgeir Thorgeirson was a writer and filmmaker. In 1983 he published two articles in the newspaper Morgunbladid, in which he claimed that there was a serious problem with police brutality in Reykjavik. He was prosecuted and convicted for defaming the Reykjavik police and fined 10,000 Icelandic crowns.