Norway violates Breiviks rights!

[eddie]

What is going on over there!?! He should have been given a death sentence anyway, but by EU standards. solitary confinement is inhumane! Put him in with the rest of the general population in that prison, they'll take care of him quick anyway. They would over here,lol

"OSLO — Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian extremist who killed 77 people in a bomb and gun rampage in 2011, lives in conditions that would seem luxurious by American incarceration standards: a three-room suite with windows that includes a treadmill, a fridge, a television with DVD player and even a Sony PlayStation.
But on Wednesday, a Norwegian court found that the government had violated his human rights, concluding that his long-term solitary confinement posed a threat to his mental health. Mr. Breivik has virtually no contact with other inmates and is subjected to frequent strip searches and searches of his cell. At a trial in March, he argued that his isolation amounted to torture.
Judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic of the Oslo District Court, who oversaw the trial, which was held at the prison for security reasons, found on Wednesday that prison officials had violated an article of the European Convention of Human Rights that prohibits “inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” She directed the government to reduce the extent of Mr. Breivik’s isolation — though she did not specify how — and ordered the government to pay Mr. Breivik’s legal fees of 331,000 kroner, or about $40,600."
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/...les/ar-BBs1ROu


And have the government pay his legal fees too!! Yeah right!

[Torplexed]

Norway tends to be a stickler for abiding by all their laws no matter who they might apply to, but I can't help but wonder if some of court officials in this picture aren't thinking to themselves: "Any chance we could pack this sorry excuse for a human being on a one-way flight to Guantanamo?"

[Dan D]

I am sure that there are plenty of opportunities to bash the EU, but not here.

The EU courts have nothing to do with it. Here is what they do:
http://europa.eu/about-eu/institutio...e/index_en.htm

You are probably thinking of the European Court of Human Rights which enforces the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms ratified in 1952 .

The EU has not yet signed the ECHR, thus the ECHR is not EU law, but each member state of the EU has individually signed the ECHR. Russia e.g. is a signatory state to the ECHR but not an EU member state.

Makes you look bad, if you sue to the wrong court.

Breivik's case can be taken to the European Court of Human Rights but not to the European Court of Justice, because:

"The CJEU and you
If you – as a private individual or as a company – have suffered damage as a result of action or inaction by an EU institution or its staff, you can take action against them in the Court, in one of 2 ways:
indirectly through national courts (which may decide to refer the case to the Court of Justice)
directly before the General Court – if a decision by an EU institution has affected you directly and individually.
If you feel that the authorities in any country have infringed EU law, you must follow the official complaints procedure" (from the above link).

[HunterICX]

May he get stabbed and bleed slowly to death and rid us of his image appearing in the newspaper ever again wasting our time.

That'll be all.

[BossMark]

Originally Posted by HunterICX

May he get stabbed and bleed slowly to death and rid us of his image appearing in the newspaper ever again wasting our time.

That'll be all.

I'll second that

[Cybermat47]

I won't complain, he violated the rights of the people he murdered, except they don't get compensation.

[Jimbuna]

Lowest form of pond life and an oxygen thief to boot.

[Betonov]

Just an attempt to milk the medias attention and as they are morons they are giving him airtime again.
No judge or jury are going to allow this to proceed.

[Rockin Robbins]

Looks like Europe is so enlightened that they won't take their own side in a dispute! Well, you can ignore reality, that this man deserves to die, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Why don't they just either set him free, where in gratitude for such merciful treatment he will surely leave his evil ways and become a force for niceness, or just turn his cell into a communications hub from which he can run terror networks all across Europe, which would richly deserve its fate?

Enlightenment, when taken to extremes, is indistinguishable from utter foolishness. Europe: buy a vowel from Vanna!

[Oberon]

Eh, it's a non-story really, he's not going to come out of prison ever again, so this is just more media attention than he deserves. Heck, even us discussing this is more than he deserves. He deserves to be forgotten, and his victims remembered.

[Commander Wallace]

I can't really add anything other than what has already been said. In the end, no matter how it turns out, his victims will still be senselessly and tragically taken and their respective loved will still be left behind with a life sentence grieving those they lost.

[Rockin Robbins]

He's not in prison! He's living in a luxury resort. He needs to be neighbors with the Unibomber: disappeared never to be thought of again. His mental health is of no concern to humanity. He has rendered himself devoid of human rights and deserves none.

[U505995]

There is only one cure for his disease and that is a nice long rope.