Anders Behring Breivik is claiming his jail life in solitary confinement is illegitimate.
Convicted mass assassin Anders Breivik appeared in courtroom on Monday in a second try to sue the Norwegian state for allegedly breaching his human rights.
Breivik, a right-wing extremist who killed 77 individuals in a bomb and gun rampage, appeared earlier than a choose in Oslo claiming his solitary confinement since being imprisoned in 2012 quantities to inhumane therapy underneath the European Conference of Human Rights.
Norway favours rehabilitation over retribution – and Breivik is held in a two-story advanced with a kitchen, eating room and TV room with an Xbox, a number of armchairs and black and white footage of the Eiffel Tower on the wall.
He additionally has a health room with weights, treadmill and rowing machine, whereas three parakeets fly across the advanced.
Even so, his lawyer, Øystein Storrvik, says it’s not possible for Breivik – who now goes by the identify Fjotolf Hansen – to have any significant relationships with anybody from the surface world.
He provides stopping his shopper from sending letters is one other breach of his human rights.
An analogous declare made by Breivik in 2016 was accepted, however the case was later overturned in a better courtroom. It was then rejected by the European Court docket of Human Rights (ECHR).
The killer sought parole in 2022 however was judged to have proven no indicators of rehabilitation.
On 22 July 2011, Breivik killed eight individuals in a bomb assault in Oslo earlier than heading to a youth camp for a centre-left political group on Utøya island. Dressed as a police officer, he stalked and gunned down 69 individuals, principally youngsters.
The next 12 months, Breivik was handed the utmost 21-year sentence with a clause – hardly ever utilized in Norway’s justice system – that he could possibly be held indefinitely if he was nonetheless thought-about a hazard to society.
Since then, he has proven no regret for his assaults, which he portrayed as a campaign towards multiculturalism in Norway.
Many regard Breivik’s flirtations with the courts as an try to attract consideration to his trigger and even bask as soon as once more within the worldwide limelight. He was accused of doing this throughout his legal trial.
Lisbeth Kristine Røyneland, who leads a assist group for survivors of the assaults and bereaved households, says she is “happy with the choice” to not permit a dwell stream of his feedback from this courtroom case.
The state rejects Breivik’s claims of human rights offences.
In a letter to the courtroom, authorities lawyer Andreas Hjetland wrote that Breivik had thus far proven himself to be unreceptive to rehabilitative work.
It was “due to this fact tough to think about which main reliefs when it comes to sentencing are attainable and justifiable”.
The trial will probably be held on Monday within the gymnasium in Ringerike jail, a stone’s throw from Utøya.
Any one who feels that their rights have been violated by a state can take their case to the ECHR.
ADVERTISEMENTIf the courtroom finds that to be the case, it will probably rule towards a state and organize them to pay compensation.
Nonetheless, the courtroom is just not empowered to overrule nationwide choices or annul nationwide legal guidelines.
