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             Norway Mass Killer to Testify About Prison Conditions

   by VOA News

   Convicted mass killer Anders Behring Breivik is appearing in court in
   Norway to give testimony as he sues the Norweigian government over
   prison conditions.

   Breivik is scheduled to give testimony Wednesday, during the second of
   four days of hearings in which the court will consider whether the
   conditions of his confinement are inhumane.

   Prison officials said they have limited his access to mail and other
   prisoners in an attempt to keep Breivik from building an extremist
   network while incarcerated.

   National Socialism

   Breivik says he has pledged his allegiance to National Socialism, the
   ideology behind the German nationalist movement that created the
   Holocaust.

   Breivik is serving a 21-year sentence for killing 77 people in a
   bombing and shooting rampage in Oslo in July 2011.

   He was convicted of detonating an explosive outside a government
   building, killing eight people in the blast, and then shooting another
   69, most of them teenagers, at a political youth camp on a nearby
   island.

   The Norweigian government says Breivik is being treated humanely and
   with dignity, but Breivik says his isolation is "inhumane" and not in
   keeping with standards set out by the European Union.

   Prison accommodations

   He has access to three cells in a high-security wing of the prison and
   his contact with other people is largely limited to prison staff.

   On his first day in court Tuesday, one of the first times he has been
   in the public eye since his conviction, Breivik issued the
   extended-arm, palm-down salute associated with Nazi Germany. The judge
   asked him not to repeat the gesture on Wednesday.

   Breivik received the maximum sentence possible for his crimes, but his
   sentence can be extended if at the end of his term he is still deemed
   to be a danger to society.
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