Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik (44) is suing the Norwegian state again. He claims that his human rights are being violated by a change in his prison conditions. This is reported by the Norwegian newspaper ‘Aftenposten’ after information from Breivik’s lawyer.
It is the second time that the far-right terrorist is fighting with the Norwegian state over his detention conditions. In 2017, he lost his first case. An appeals court then reversed a lower court decision that ruled that Breivik was being held in inhumane conditions.
Complete insulation
His new suit charges that he is being kept in complete isolation. “He is suing the state because he has been living in complete isolation for eleven years, and has no contact with anyone except his guards,” Breivik’s lawyer Oeystein Storrvik told Reuters news agency. “He was transferred to a new prison last summer, and we hoped this would improve his detention conditions and allow him to meet other people, but that turned out not to be the case.” Storrvik hopes that the file will be heard by the court in the spring of next year.
77 dead, mostly young people
In 2011 Breivik first killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and then 69 people on the island of Utoya, where social democratic youths were at summer camp. He was sentenced in 2012 to the maximum prison term of 21 years. His sentence can be extended afterwards if he is still considered a threat.
Attempt to get out early
The Norwegian tried to get an early release last year, but his request was rejected by the court. A psychiatrist stated that Breivik was still as dangerous as when he committed the dozens of murders.
Norwegian mass murderer Breivik will not be released early
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