The mass murderer Anders Breivik lost his human rights case against the Norwegian state after an appeal court overturned an earlier ruling that his solitary confinement was inhumane.
Breivik killed 77 people in Norway’s worst peacetime atrocity, in July 2011, eight of them in a bomb attack in Oslo and 69 — mainly teenagers — shot dead at a Labour Party youth meeting on an island near the capital.
His lawyer said that he would challenge yesterday’s verdict at Norway’s Supreme Court and could take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.
The Norwegian state had appealed against a ruling by Oslo’s district court last April that Breivik was being treated “inhumanely” and that a regime of frequent strip searches was “degrading”, in