Mass Killer Accused Authorities Of Inhuman n Humiliating Treatment

Anders Behring Breivik is serving twenty-one years in jail for the mass killing of seventy-seven people in Norway has accused Norwegian authorities of "inhuman" and humiliating treatment in prison.
He’s is being held at a high-security facility in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik said the ill treatment in prison violates his human rights. 

He is suing the Norwegian state over his treatment, which he claims is in contravention of the European Convention on Human Rights.

A hearing will be held at the Skein prison, where the thirty-seven-year-old killer is being held, later this month. 

Ahead of the hearing the office of Norway's attorney general has defended the conditions applied to Breivik's incarceration.

According to a document submitted to the Oslo district court, authorities believe "the measures which have been applied to the plaintiff ... are well within the limits of what is permitted". 

The document reveals Breivik has access to three cells within the jail: one for living in, another for studying and a third for exercise. 

He has access to a TV, a computer and a games console. 

Breivik is not allowed contact with other inmates, but he interacts with guards and professional staff. 

"There are limits to his contact with the outside world which are of course strict - it pretty much has to be that way - but he is not totally excluded from all contact with other people," Marius Emberland, the lawyer who will defend the state at the hearing, told AFP. 

But Breivik's lawyer Oystein Storrvik claims his client has been suffering from "clear isolation damage" caused by him being cut off from visitors.

AFP