Breivik, who is serving time for killing 77 people in 2011, has access to a kitchen, a gym and a TV with Xbox.
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will remain isolated in prison after losing his legal bid to end the conditions imposed on him by the state.
The neo-Nazi, who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting in 2011, sued the Norwegian state in January, arguing that his prison conditions violated his human rights.
“The Oslo District Court, after an overall assessment, concluded that the conditions of Breivik's sentence are not a violation of human rights,” the court said in a statement accompanying its verdict on Thursday.
Breivik, who changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, is serving a 21-year sentence, the maximum sentence at the time of his crimes, which can be extended as long as he is considered a threat to society.
He has been held in solitary confinement since 2012 for his crimes, which include killing eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and shooting dead 69 other people, most of them teenagers, on the island of Utoya on July 22, 2011. , the deadliest violence in Norway since World War II.
Breivik argued that his isolation amounted to “inhuman” punishment under the European Convention on Human Rights. But the court rejected her lawsuit against Norway's Ministry of Justice and Public Security.
“Breivik has good physical prison conditions and relatively great freedom in everyday life,” Judge Birgitte Kolrud said in the ruling.
“There has been a clear improvement in sentencing conditions” and “there was no evidence of permanent harm from the punishment,” he added.
Breivik, 45, was transferred two years ago to Ringerike prison, where he is held in a two-story complex with a kitchen, dining room and TV room with an Xbox, several armchairs and black and white photographs of the Eiffel Tower. on the street. Wall.
There's also a fitness room with weights, a treadmill and a rowing machine, and three parakeets fly around the complex.
'Well treated'
“Breivik is treated especially well,” prison director Eirik Bergstedt testified at the court hearing last month.
The case took place over five days in the high-security Breivik prison, located on the shore of Lake Tyrifjorden, where Utoya is also located.
“In short, the court has concluded that the conditions of the sentence cannot be said to be, or have been, disproportionately burdensome,” Thursday's verdict said.
Breivik has shown no remorse for his attacks and is still considered dangerous by Norwegian authorities.
During her testimony at the hearing, she shed tears and said she suffered from depression and suicidal feelings.
However, Janne Gudim Hermansen, the designated prison psychiatrist who has met with Breivik since he was transferred to Ringerike, testified at the hearing that she had concerns about the tears, saying, “I think maybe this was used to achieve something.”
Breivik filed a similar legal complaint in 2016 and 2017.
In 2016, the Oslo District Court shocked the world when it ruled that his isolation constituted a violation of his rights.
However, on appeal, Norway's highest courts ruled in favor of the state, and in 2018 the European Court of Human Rights dismissed its case as “inadmissible.”
Breivik immediately appealed Thursday's ruling, Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported.
