The prison conditions of Norwegian right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik are not a violation of his human rights. The Oslo District Court decided this on Thursday. Breivik, who has since changed his name, had accused the Norwegian state of saying the years of solitary confinement violated his human rights (see video above).
He has complained about his prison conditions for years. The 45-year-old Norwegian has his own ‘ward’ on two floors in the Ringerike prison northwest of Oslo. Photos show a spacious kitchen, a TV room and three parakeets.
A Norwegian appeals court had already ruled in 2017 that there were no human rights violations. Now the court in Oslo also came to this conclusion. Breivik’s lawyer announced he would appeal the decision.
77 killed in his terrorist attacks
The right-wing terrorist first detonated a car bomb in Oslo’s government district on July 22, 2011, and then committed a massacre at a summer camp of the Social Democratic Workers’ Party youth organization on the island of Utøya. A total of 77 people were killed in the terrorist attacks. They are considered by far the worst acts of violence from the Norwegian post-war period.
Receive maximum punishment
The Norwegian was sentenced in 2012 to the maximum sentence at the time: 21 years of preventive detention with a minimum term of ten years. This means that the duration of the sentence can be extended every five years, unlike a normal prison sentence. Theoretically, Breivik could remain behind bars until his death, even though there is no life sentence in Norway. Breivik had already requested early release, but that failed in court.
Source: Krone
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