U.S. Department of State Country Report on Human Rights
Practices 1999 - Iceland |Publisher||United States Department of
State| |Publication Date||25 February 2000| |Cite as||United
States Department of State, U.S. Department of State Country
Report on Human Rights Practices 1999 - Iceland , 25 February
2000, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6aa6ec.html
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Iceland is a constitutional republic and a parliamentary
democracy in which citizens periodically choose their
representatives in free and fair multiparty elections. The
judiciary is independent. Elected officials control the police
force, which scrupulously observes and enforces the laws that
ensure protection of human rights. Iceland has a mixed, open