Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was defeated by the state in his attempt to end his isolation in prison, a court ruled on Thursday (15).
The far-right fanatic, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting in 2011, sued the state in January arguing that his prison conditions violated his human rights.
“The Oslo District Court, after a general assessment, concluded that Breivik's sentencing conditions are not a violation of human rights,” it said in a statement accompanying the verdict.
Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence, the maximum sentence at the time of his crimes, and which can be extended as long as he is considered a threat to society.
He has been kept in isolation since he killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and killed 69 others, mostly teenagers, on Utoeya Island on July 22, 2011.
The case he opened was processed in January at the high-security Breivik prison, located on the shore of Lake Tyrifjorden, where Utoeya is also located.
Breivik testified that he was sorry for what he had done and broke down in tears when he said that his life in prison isolation was a nightmare that left him considering suicide daily.
However, a day later, a psychologist who co-wrote a new risk assessment on the killer testified that he was neither depressed nor suicidal and was doing “very well.”
“In summary, the court reached the conclusion that the sentencing conditions cannot be considered disproportionately onerous,” the ruling said.
Breivik's lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for a response.
Source: CNN Brasil
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