‘Suicidal’ mass killer Anders Breivik sues Norway over prison isolation
Man who slaughtered 77 people in Norway in 2011 has appeared in court claiming his treatment violates the European Convention on Human Rights
Anders Breivik and Marte Lindholm, one of his laywers, attended a court hearing at Ringerike prison in Tyristrand, Norway
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Anders Breivik, the right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, is suicidal and on anti-depressants because of his years of isolation in prison, his lawyer have said.
Kept apart from other prisoners for the past 11 years, Breivik, who killed 77 people in Oslo and on the island of Utoya, has launched a lawsuit against the Norwegian state over his detention conditions.
“The main damage linked to Breivik’s isolation is that he no longer has the desire to live. You can call it a depression,” his lawyer Oystein Storrvik told a hearing convened in the gymnasium of Ringerike prison where Breivik, now 44, is being held.
Breivik, a right-wing extremist, killed 77 people in 2011 and has spent much of the past 11 years in solitary confinement
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Breivik claims his extended isolation is a violation of Article 3 of the European Convention on
