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Anders Breivik in court on January 8th
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The prison conditions of Norwegian right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik do not violate his human rights. The Oslo district court decided this on Thursday. Breivik had accused the Norwegian state of violating his human rights by years of solitary confinement.
The court now ruled that this was not the case. Breivik's lawyer announced that he would appeal the decision.
Breivik has been complaining about his prison conditions for years. However, in 2017, a Norwegian appeals court ruled that there were no human rights violations. The European Court of Human Rights rejected Breivik's application in 2018 as clearly unfounded.
TV room and budgies
The 45-year-old Norwegian has his own “department” on two floors in Ringerike Prison northwest of Oslo. Photos from there show, among other things, a spacious kitchen, a TV room and three budgies.
On July 22, 2011, Breivik first detonated a car bomb in the Oslo government district and then carried out a massacre in a summer camp of the youth organization of the Social Democratic Workers' Party on the island of Utøya. The terrorist attacks, with a total of 77 deaths, are considered by far the worst acts of violence in Norway's post-war period.
Breivik, who has long called himself Fjotolf Hansen, was sentenced in 2012 to what was then the maximum sentence in Norway: 21 years of preventive detention with a minimum period of ten years. In contrast to a normal prison sentence, detention means that the length of the sentence can be extended every five years. Theoretically, Breivik could remain behind bars until his death, even though the Norwegian legal system does not allow for a life sentence.
At the end of the minimum period, Breivik had applied for early release from prison, but his application failed in court at the beginning of 2022.
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