Anders Breivik Challenged Prison Isolation

In January 2024, Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in a 2011 bombing and shooting rampage, sued Norway to end his years of prison isolation. His attacks killed eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and 69 others at a Labour Party youth camp on Utoya. Breivik claimed that his isolation since 2012 amounted to inhuman punishment and violated the European Convention on Human Rights. Norway maintained that the restrictions remained necessary because he continued to pose an extraordinary danger.

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