Posted April 20, 2016 11:00 am by Comments

By Robert Farago

 Mass killer Anders Bevik (courtesy in.reuters.com)

“Anders Breivik took Norwegian authorities to court in March,” in.reuters.com reports, “accusing them of exposing him to inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. He protested his isolation from other inmates and from outsiders who are not professionals.” You may remember that Brevik as the madman who dressed as a police officer and then shot and murdered 69 people at a Workers’ Youth League (AUF) summer camp on the island of Utøya. After killing eight with a bomb in Oslo. Apparently, prison isolation isn’t good enough for Brevik. The court ruled that . . .

“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.

The verdict said the Norwegian state had broken Article 3 of the convention, pointing to the fact that Breivik is spending 22 to 23 hours a day alone in his cell.

“It’s a completely locked world with very little human contact,” it said, adding that there had been no attempt to ease the security “even though Breivik has behaved in an …Read the Rest

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