Mass killer tries to sue Norway for alleged human rights breach

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 individuals in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011, will strive for the second time on Monday to sue the Norwegian state for allegedly breaching his human rights.

Breivik claims his solitary confinement since being imprisoned in 2012 quantities to inhumane remedy underneath the European Conference of Human Rights.

Norway favours rehabilitation over retribution – and Breivik is held in a two-story complicated 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 complicated.

Even so, his lawyer, Øystein Storrvik, says it’s not possible for Breivik – who now goes by the title Fjotolf Hansen – to have any significant relationships with anybody from the skin world. 

He provides stopping his consumer from sending letters is one other breach of his human rights.

The same declare made by Breivik in 2016 was accepted, however the case was later overturned in a better court docket. It was then rejected by the European Courtroom 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 yr, Breivik was handed the utmost 21-year sentence with a clause – not often utilized in Norway’s justice system – that he could possibly be held indefinitely if he was nonetheless thought of a hazard to society.

Since then, he has proven no regret for his assaults, which he portrayed as a campaign in opposition to 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 help group for survivors of the assaults and bereaved households, says she is “glad with the choice” to not permit a reside stream of his feedback from this court docket case.

The state rejects Breivik’s claims of human rights offences. 

In a letter to the court docket, authorities lawyer Andreas Hjetland wrote that Breivik had up to now 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 likely be held on Monday within the gymnasium in Ringerike jail, a stone’s throw from Utøya.

Any one that feels that their rights have been violated by a state can take their case to the ECHR.

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If the court docket finds that to be the case, it may possibly rule in opposition to a state and get them organized to pay compensation. 

Nevertheless, the court docket isn’t empowered to overrule nationwide selections or annul nationwide legal guidelines.