Iceland's minister of the interior quit on Friday after her assistant was convicted last week of illegally leaking information about an asylum seeker to media a year ago. Gisli Freyr Valdorsson had admitted to leaking information about Nigerian Tony Omos, who was due to be deported last year when a protest began to keep him in the country, and was given a two year suspended sentence.
"According to the information that is now available, it is clear that my assistant acted illegally without my knowledge. He worked under my political authority and I trusted him," Interior Minister Hanna Birna said in a statement. It was not immediately clear who will replace her.
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