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Anders Breivik’s human rights violated in prison, Norway court rules
Norway has violated the human rights of the rightwing extremist Anders Breivik by exposing him to inhuman and degrading treatment during his imprisonment for terrorism and mass murder, a Norwegian court has ruled.
Breivik, who killed 77 people in July 2011 in the country’s worst acts of violence since the second world war, took the Norwegian authorities to court last month, alleging that the solitary confinement in which he had been held for nearly five years breached the European convention on human rights.
Although Breivik is detained in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic of the Oslo district court ruled that the Norwegian state had broken article 3 of the convention.
The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment “represents a fundamental value in a democratic society”, she said in a written decision …. http://www.theguardian.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/04/anders-breiviks-human-rights-violated.html
