29-01-2025
Norwegian mass murderer Breivik loses prison condition case
'The Court of Appeal considers that the restrictions are sufficiently justified,' the three judges said in their rulingThey also said that the prison authorities have put in place sufficient measures to compensate for his relative isolation in prisonOSLO: A Norwegian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal brought by right-wing extremist and mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who claims his prison conditions are a violation of human who killed 77 people in July 2011, has regularly complained about his prison conditions, despite them including three private cells, two Guinea pigs, a flat-screen television and a video game that he has been 'treated like an animal,' Breivik has sued the Norwegian state on several occasions in a bid to get improvements to compensate for his relative has argued that this isolation constitutes a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), which prohibits 'inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.'His case was struck down by a district court in February, after which he appealed.'The Court of Appeal considers that the restrictions are sufficiently justified by the risk of violence that persists,' the three judges said in their ruling also said that the prison authorities have put in place sufficient measures to compensate for his relative isolation in court also dismissed Breivik's appeal for an easing of the filtering of his mail, for which he also invoked the ECHR on the right to July 22, 2011, Breivik set off a bomb near government offices in Oslo, killing eight people, before gunning down 69 others, mostly teens, at a Labour Party youth wing summer camp on the island of said he had killed his victims because they embraced was sentenced in 2012 to 21 years in prison, which can be extended as long as he is considered a threat.A Norwegian court on Wednesday rejected an appeal brought by right-wing extremist and mass killer Anders Behring Breivik, who claims his prison conditions are a violation of human rights. (Reuters/File)
