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                   Norway Appeals Breivik Human Rights Ruling

   by VOA News

   Norway is appealing a court verdict about the human rights of Anders
   Breivik, sentenced for terrorism and mass murder.

   Norwegian Justice Minister Anders Anundsen said in a statement Tuesday
   he asked the attorney general to appeal the verdict after the Oslo
   district court ruled that the state had violated Breivik's rights under
   the European Convention on Human Rights.

   The court said on April 20 that Norway violated Breivik's rights by
   keeping him in solitary confinement after he was sentenced for killing
   77 people in a bomb-and-gun massacre in 2011. The court, however, also
   said that his right to a private life had not been violated.

   Breivik, 37, sued the government last month and argued during a
   four-day hearing that solitary confinement, as well as frequent strip
   searches and the fact that he was often handcuffed while being moved
   between cells, violated his human rights.

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   Breivik is held in solitary confinement in a three-cell complex at the
   Skien prison, 130 kilometers from Oslo, where he can play video games,
   watch TV and exercise. In principle he is allowed visits from family
   and friends, but has not received any apart from his mother before she
   died.

   Breivik was sentenced in August 2012 to a maximum 21 years in prison,
   which can be extended if he is still considered a danger.

   Breivik killed eight people in a bomb attack outside a government
   building in Norway's capital, then shot dead another 69 people, most of
   them teenagers, on the island of Utoya on July 22, 2011.
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