Breivik says his human rights are being violated (Picture: EPA)
The man who orchestrated the worst peacetime atrocity in Norway’s history is suing over allegations his human rights have been violated.
Anders Breivik, a far right domestic terrorist, killed 77 people during a mass shooting and a bombing on July 22, 2011.
Now aged 44, he was sentenced to 21 years in prison, which could be extended if the authorities still consider him a threat.
But now his lawyer says Breivik is suing the state over his human rights being violated, alleging he is being held in ‘extreme’ isolation.
He’s also filed an application for parole, Reuters reports.
His lawyer, Oeystein Storrvik, said: ‘He’s suing the state because he has been in an extreme isolation for 11 years, and has no contacts with other people except his guards.
‘He (Breivik) was moved to a new prison last year, and we hoped that there would be better conditions and that he could meet other people.’
Breivik lost a human rights case in 2017, when an appeals court overturned a lower court verdict that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhuman.
He had a parole application rejected last year, with the court saying he still posed a risk of violence.
Mr Storrvik said he expects the Oslo district court to hear the case next spring.
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Breivik stood trial in 2012 after being found psychologically competent to do so.
He was found guilty of mass murder, causing a fatal explosion, and terrorism, and was sentenced to 21 years imprisonment – the maximum criminal penalty in Norway.
Breivik’s attack was motivated by his hatred of Islam and blamed feminism for a European ‘cultural suicide’.
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‘He’s suing the state because he has been in an extreme isolation for 11 years, and has no contacts with other people except his guards.’