Anders Behring Breivik

Suspect held as Oslo police detonate ‘bomb-like device’

Oslo - Arab Today

Norwegian police set off a controlled explosion of a “bomb-like device” in central Oslo early on Sunday and were holding a suspect in custody in an investigation led by security police. A Reuters reporter described a loud bang shortly after Oslo’s bomb squad arrived with a remote-controlled robot once the area was cordoned off by police late on Saturday night.Read more

Norway court to decide if Breivik treated inhumanely in jail

Oslo - Arab Today

A Norwegian appeals court will decide Wednesday whether mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is being treated inhumanely in prison by being kept in isolation after a lower court ruled in his favor. In April 2016, an Oslo district court stunned the survivors and families of the 77 victims of Breivik’s 2011 attacks when it found the state guilty of treatingRead more

Norway appeals court rules Breivik's rights not violated

Oslo - ArabToday

An appeals court in Norway ruled on Wednesday that the government had not violated the human rights of convicted mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik by holding him in isolation in prison. "The Borgarting Court of Appeal has determined that Anders Behring Breivik is not, and has not been subjected to torture or inhuman or degrading treatment," the court said inRead more

Norway court to rule on Breivik lawsuit

Oslo - Arab Today

A Norwegian court will deliver its verdict Wednesday on a lawsuit brought by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik over what he says are his "inhuman" prison conditions, in a case that has tested the limits of the rule of law. Norway's most notorious inmate has been detained in a high-security prison unit since he massacred 77 people in a bomb-and-gunRead more

Breivik wants Norway found guilty of 'inhuman' treatment

Skien Prison - Arab Today

Lawyers for mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway in 2011, called Friday for the state to be found guilty of "inhuman" treatment for holding him in isolation for almost five years. "The crimes my client was accused of are irrelevant," Oystein Storrvik told the court on the fourth and final day of the 37-year-old's lawsuitRead more