The Norwegian government is presenting its closing statement in an appeal involving mass murderer, Anders Breivik.
ADVERTISEMENTThe Norwegian government is presenting its closing statement in an appeal involving mass murderer, Anders Breivik.
It is aiming to overturn a court ruling that Norway violated Breivik’s human rights by holding him in isolation in prison.
Attorney General Frederik Sejerstad defended the measures, saying they were fully justified for a right-wing extremist who, he added, “is proud of what he has done.”
Breivik, 37, is serving Norway’s longest sentence – 21 years with the possibility of extension – for a killing rampage in July 2011.
Eight people died after he set off a car bomb outside the prime minister’s office in Oslo. He then gunned down 69 others – many of them teenagers – on an island near the capital.
He has expressed no remorse and had previously told a court that his solitary confinement had made him even more radical in his neo-Nazi beliefs.
The hearings are expected to end on Wednesday (January 18), with a ruling expected in February, 2017.
Breivik pulls Nazi salute in court https://t.co/9PKNrxs1hVpic.twitter.com/CSaycZyP7t
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