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Norwegian mass killer begins second attempt to sue state for alleged breach of human rights
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Anders Behring Breivik and attorney Marte Lindholm sits, as the Oslo district court conducts his case in a gymnasium at Ringerike prison, in Ringerike, Norway, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Breivik, who slayed 77 people in an anti-Islamic bomb and gun rampage in 2011, appeared in court on Monday in a bid to sue the Norwegian state for breaching his human rights. Norway’s worst peacetime killer says his solitary confinement since being jailed in 2012 amounts to inhumane treatment under the European Convention of Human Rights. - photo by Cornelius Poppe/NTB Scanpix via AP
STAVANGER, Norway (AP) — Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting rampage in 2011, launched his second attempt at suing the state on Monday, accusing the Justice Ministry of breaching his human rights. Breivik, who has changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, claims that the isolation he's been placed under since he started serving his prison sentence in 2012 amounts to inhumane punishment under the European Convention on Human Rights. He failed in a similar attempt in 2016 and 2017, when his appeal was ultimately slapped down by the European Court of Justice.