In 2011 he killed 77 people in Oslo and Utoya. Now the Norwegian Court agrees with him: “Prison is inhuman.”
Photos of his cell, complete with a office desk, personal gym, TV, Playstation and PC, are famous all over the world. Yet for a Norwegian court the State has violated the human rights of Anders Behring Breivik, author of the massacres in Oslo and Utoya in 2011.
The 37 year-old extremist and Nazi mass murderer, had brought Norway to court for “inhuman” treatment due to the imprisonment and now the judges have proved him right: “The detention constitutes a inhuman and degrading treatment,” stated the Oslo court presided by judge Helen Andenæs Sekulic, highlighting that Breivik has already been held in prison with maximum security measures for almost five years, in violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on human rights.
Before starting the case, Breivik had also called for the lifting on restrictions of its communications with the outside, in order to keep contact with the fans and supporters of his “network”, but the authorities had rejected the call for obvious reasons of security because of his “extreme dangerousness” and to prevent further attacks by his external followers or wannabe cooperators.
Breivik was sentenced in August 2012 to 21 years in prison (the maximum sentence in Norway) for a bomb attack in Oslo (8 deaths) and for the massacre on the island of Utoya, 69 died in a shooting, mostly children, took place on July 22, 2011. As a protest against the social changes under way.
Source: Il Giornale