Breivik is serving a prison sentence for killing 77 people in 2011 and has access to a kitchen, a gym and a TV with Xbox.

Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will remain in prison in isolation after failing in his legal attempt to end conditions imposed on him by the state.

The neo-Nazi who killed 77 people in a bombing and rampage in 2011 sued the Norwegian state in January, saying his prison conditions violated his human rights.

“The Oslo District Court has concluded, after an overall assessment, that Breivik’s sentencing conditions do not constitute a violation of human rights,” the court said in a statement accompanying its ruling on Thursday.

Breivik, who has changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, serves as 21 years in prisonthe maximum sentence at the time of his crimes, which can be extended as long as he is considered a threat to society.

He has been held in solitary confinement since 2012 for his crimes, including the murder of eight people with a car bomb in Oslo and the shooting of 69 others, mostly teenagers, on the island of Utoya on July 22, 2011 – the deadliest violence in Norway since World War II .

Breivik argued that his isolation amounted to an “inhumane” punishment under the European Convention on Human Rights. But the court rejected his lawsuit against the Norwegian Ministry of Justice and Public Security.

“Breivik has good physical prison conditions and relatively great freedom in everyday life,” said judge Birgitte Kolrud in the verdict.

“Conditions of sentencing have improved significantly” and there is “no evidence of lasting harm from the sentence,” she added.

Breivik, 45, was transferred to Ringerike prison two years ago, where he is held in a two-story complex with a kitchen, dining room and TV room with an Xbox, several armchairs and black-and-white pictures of the Eiffel Tower on the wall.

It also has a gym with weights, a treadmill and a rowing machine, and three parakeets fly around the facility.

‘Handled well’

“Breivik is treated particularly well,” prison director Eirik Bergstedt testified at the trial last month.

The case took place five days in the maximum security prison in Breivik on the shores of Lake Tyrifjorden, where Utoya is also located.

“In summary, the court came to the conclusion that the punishment conditions could not or were not viewed as disproportionately burdensome,” it said in the verdict on Thursday.

Breivik has shown no remorse for his attacks and is still considered dangerous by Norwegian authorities.

He shed tears during his testimony at the hearing and said he was suffering from depression and suicidal thoughts.

However, Janne Gudim Hermansen, the prison-appointed psychiatrist who has met Breivik since his transfer to Ringerike, testified at the hearing that she had doubts about the tears, saying: “I think that perhaps this was used to commit something to reach.”

Breivik filed a similar lawsuit in 2016 and 2017.

In 2016, the Oslo District Court ruled stunned When the world ruled them, his isolation was a violation of his rights.

However, in the appeal processNorway’s higher courts ruled in favor of the state and the European Court of Human Rights dismissed its case as “inadmissible” in 2018.

Breivik immediately appealed Thursday’s ruling, Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten reported.