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- 9 November 2012, 21:55
Anders Breivik Complains About Prison Life
Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has said his human rights are being breached - because he is not allowed moisturiser in his cell.
In a 27-page letter to Norway's correctional services department, he also complained that the cell is sparsely furnished and has no view.
The notorious gunman - who killed 77 people in a bombing and shooting frenzy in July last year - said he was not getting enough butter to spread on his bread and has to drink his coffee cold.
He also complained that the handcuffs he has to wear when being transferred are razor sharp and "cut into his wrists".
"I highly doubt that there are worse detention facilities in Norway," the 33-year-old wrote.
The right-wing extremist is being held in near-complete isolation at the high security Ila prison outside Oslo after being sentenced in August.
The all-male institution houses some of the country's most dangerous men, according to the prison's website.
Tord Jordet, one of Breivik's lawyers, confirmed his letter of complaint was authentic. Norway's justice ministry declined to comment.
Breivik earned international notoriety when he detonated a bomb outside the centre-left government's headquarters, before going on a rampage at a youth camp on the island of Utoya.
He was given a 21-year sentence that can be indefinitely extended for as long as he is considered a danger to society.
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what do you think?
john
What does he expect, the Ritz?? All this ' Human Rights' business sounds fine and dandy in theory but in practice time and time again it gets twisted and perverted to create totally the opposite effect. I m sure that this not what the legislators had in mind when drawing up the Human Rights Laws
Grant Berry
why keep him alive?
Jasmin Louise
No!! keep him alive! He's suffering :)
Chris Haynes
So glad that something has taken the smirk off his face!!
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Mark Wood
Yes we know you ahte Christians - you're ludicrous, factually incorrect and inflammatory posting over the past few months make that clear. Whart you say here is also a distortion of Christian belief and i suspect you know it - but etither way totally irrelevant in this case. He's an unbalanced bigot - someone you may identify with.
Chris Haynes
Christos, have you had your medication today mate???
Roy E Millington
dont keep him in isolation then you wont have to keep him at all
d and d Phillips
They should have taken him to the scaffold. There's a good view from there.
SagePhotoWorld
What's wrong with a stone room with a bucket for a toilet and a jug of water to drink together with dry bread and a bed of straw. I see no problem with shackling prisoners to the wall either - a chain long enough that they can reach the door to collect their daily jug of water and loaf of dry bread. Prison is a luxury hotel for most.
Juliecrumpton1234
He really is. Completely insane! So his reasoning we wouldn't get, he doesn't think he's done anything wrong for starters, so he genuinely believes he's being treated badly! Good! Long may it continue!
Adrian Wagstaff
The temperature here is 7C. The heating is off. I can just about get a view of the tops of some hills, if I try. I don't tend to bother with pictures on walls or ornaments and most of the time my view is of white walls or a computer screen. In the winter my finger skin splits and I don't usually use moisturisers.
shirley sutton
4:29pm on 9/11/2012
Sick of these monsters using the human rights card what about the human rights of the people they kill they should lose all rights