Breivik, who killed 77 people, will sue the government for human rights violations

Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting in 2011, will try to sue the Norwegian state for the second time.

Breivik, described as Norway’s worst peacetime killer, claims his solitary confinement since 2012, when he was jailed, amounts to inhuman treatment under the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Breivik is being held in a two-story compound with a kitchen, dining room and television room with an Xbox, several armchairs and black-and-white pictures of the Eiffel Tower on the wall. There is also a gym with weights, a treadmill and a rowing machine, and three parrots fly around the complex. The Norwegian judicial system is in favor of the rehabilitation of prisoners and against punishment.

His lawyer Øystein Storrvik argues that Breivik, now called Fjotolf Hansen, is unable to maintain meaningful relationships with anyone in the outside world and that the fact that his client is not allowed to send letters is a violation of human rights.

On July 22, 2011, Breivik killed eight people in a bombing in Oslo and then went to a center-left party youth camp on the island of Utøya, disguised himself as a policeman and shot 69 people, mostly teenagers.

The following year, Breivik was sentenced to the maximum 21-year term, with a clause – rarely used in the Norwegian court system – that he could be detained indefinitely if he was still considered a danger to society.

Since then he has shown no signs of remorse for his attacks, which he called a crusade against multiculturalism in Norway.

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