Mass killer Breivik loses human rights case to end prison isolation


  • World
  • Friday, 16 Feb 2024

Anders Behring Breivik is accompanied by guards as he arrives at the courtroom to give his statement on day two of the trial, at Ringerike prison, in Tyristrand, Norway, January 9, 2024. Cornelius Poppe/NTB/via REUTERS/file photo

OSLO (Reuters) -Norwegian mass killer Anders Behring Breivik lost against the state in his bid to end his isolation in prison after he argued his human rights were being violated, a court ruled on Thursday.

The far-right fanatic, who killed 77 people, most of them teenagers, in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, sued the state in January over his prison conditions.

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