Norway violated Anders Breivik's rights, court rules

Norway has violated the human rights of mass killer Anders Breivik by keeping him in solidarity confinement in a three-cell complex where he can play video games, watch TV and exercise, a court has ruled. The ruling found in Oslo on Wednesday that Breivik - who killed 77 people in twin attacks in 2011 - had been subjected to strip searches, had been woken up hourly by guards for long periods and that the authorities had done little to alleviate the effect of his isolation. "The prohibition of inhuman and degrading treatment represents a fundamental value in a democratic society. This applies no matter what - also in the treatment of terrorists and killers," judge Helen Andenaes Sekulic said in her ruling. The state must pay Breivik's legal fees of more than 40,000, the judge ruled.