- I will take my punishment without bending my neck.

My life will go on, says Inger Støjberg in a statement before the Supreme Court after the verdict was announced, according to the Danish news agency Ritzau.

She risked up to four months in prison.

After the Supreme Court trial against Inger Støjberg has ended, it is clear that she will be sentenced to 60 days in prison, states the Danish news agency Ritzau.

About twenty separated

It was on 10 February 2016 that Inger Støjberg wrote in a press release that she asked the Swedish Immigration Service, which handles asylum cases in Denmark, to immediately ensure that minors in the Danish asylum system could not live with an adult spouse or partner.

However, it never became clear that an exception could be made from the instruction to differentiate between asylum-seeking couples and that each case requires an individual examination.

A total of 22 or 23 couples were separated, and among them there were isolated cases where there was a larger age difference.

But in most cases, the parties were about the same age.

A large review commission has ruled that the instruction lacked support in the law, and that it also violated, among other things, the European Convention on Human Rights.

Støjberg, for her part, has denied giving an illegal instruction - and her defense lawyer has referred to a ministerial note, which Støjberg signed the day before the press release expired.

It states that in some cases exceptions can be made when couples are to be separated, so that the man and the woman are only assigned different rooms, not placed separately in different asylum centers.

"Your support has meant everything"

According to the defense, this would be the actual instruction, and how it was then passed on to the Danish Immigration Service, Støjberg has denied knowledge of.

The prosecution has demanded that she be sentenced to four months in prison.

The Supreme Court trial began on September 2, and on Monday the verdict was announced

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60 days unconditional imprisonment for violating the law.

The prosecution has been unusual in its kind, insofar as the Supreme Court has only been conducted for the now sixth time in Denmark's history.

Inger Støjberg herself stated earlier on Monday that the process was a tough test, reports the news agency Ritzau.

“But your support has meant everything.

That is why I sincerely and sincerely thank you, ”she writes in a press release.

Inger Støjberg has left the former governing party Venstre and become politically wild in the Folketing.

However, the Danish People's Party sees her as a possible new party leader, regardless of the verdict.