Anders Breivik’s human rights violated in prison, Norway court rules [View all]
Source: The Guardian and agencies
A Norwegian court has ruled that Anders Breivik’s human rights have been violated during his imprisonment for terrorism and mass murder.
An Oslo court said the prison conditions breached an article in the European convention on human rights prohibiting inhuman and degrading treatment.
“The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society. This applies no matter what – also in the treatment of terrorists and killers,” judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic said in her ruling.
Breivik is serving a maximum 21-year sentence – which can be extended if he is still considered dangerous – for killing eight people in a bombing outside a government building in Oslo and then murdering another 69, most of them teenagers, in a rampage at a Labour youth camp in 2011.
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/20/anders-behring-breiviks-human-rights-violated-in-prison-norway-court-rules
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Wednesday 20 April 2016 14.22 BST
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Source: BBC
20 April 2016 Europe
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik has won part of his human rights case against the Norwegian state.
The court upheld his claim that some of his treatment in captivity amounted to "inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment".
The right "represents a fundamental value in a democratic society" and also applied to "terrorists and killers," judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic said.
Breivki killed dozens of young political activists in an attack on a youth camp in the summer of 2011.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36094575
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