Among his other complaints are:
- the handcuffs he wears when being moved around the prison “are too sharp and “cut in his wrist”
- the cell is too cold, forcing him to wear three layers of clothes
- he has to rush his morning shave and brushing of teeth
- light and television switches are outside the cell, so he has to ask for help to change channel or sleep.
Ila is an all-male institution which “houses some of the country’s most dangerous men”, its website says.
While Breivik may be frustrated with his conditions (he is held in near-complete isolation), compared to other parts of the world, he has it pretty good — Norway having one of the world’s most humane prison systems. He gets a three-room suite to himself (though at 86 sq ft each, they’re far from huge), and despite killing 77 people in the infamous 2011 shooting, he has a chance to get out of prison in 21 years — if it’s seen that the time in jail has properly rehabilitated him.
EDIT: Double-checked the time and realized we made a mistake in converting it — you have an extra hour, as it’s at noon, not 11 a.m. Apologies.
We apologize for the error. :/
Norwegian court rules Anders Behring Breivik sane, sentences him to prison
The New York Times: A court on Friday sentenced Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian extremist who admitted killing 77 people, to at least 21 years in prison after ruling that he was sane when he carried out his country’s worst peacetime atrocity. The sentence was the most severe permitted under Norwegian law, but it can be extended at a later date if he is still deemed to be a danger to society.
Photo: Anders Behring Breivik listens to the judge in the courtroom, Friday, Aug. 24, 2012, in Oslo, Norway (Frank Augstein / AP)
It seems light by American standards, but this is the harshest possible sentence he could have gotten.
Snoop Dogg banned from Norway: Today in cannabis-related tragedies.
I thought they (the attackers) were exchanging messages but realizing he was alone, I think the scream was actually a battle cry.Utoeya Island massacre survivor Ingvild Leren Stensrud • Describing what she saw and heard, the day Anders Behring Breivik attacked Oslo and Utoeya, while testifying in the Norwegian killer’s trial. Stenstrud survived the attack, with a gun shot to the left thigh, after being knocked over — and subsequently covered by — the body of another victim. Glenn Martin Waldenstroem, who survived being shot in the face, asked that Breivik be removed from the room before he testified. With Anders gone, Waldenstroem told the court that the killer “looked angry and smiled simultaneously.” source (via • follow)
Anders Breivik’s American fan: Meet Kevin Forts of Worchester, Mass. Kevin is one of the few people who has shown support to the Norwegian mass shooter, saying that his actions display nationalism and that he dreams of meeting him. They’ve even become pen pals. Forts showed up in this video for Norwegian tabloid VG recently to explain his bizarre fandom. We’re not really sure what to say about this.
I am not scared by the prospect of being in prison all my life. I was born in a prison where I could not express my beliefs. This prison is called Norway.Anders Behring Breivik, the gunman in the Norwegian mass shooting • Speaking in a court Tuesday regarding his actions. ”I have carried out the most spectacular and sophisticated attack on Europe since World War II. … These acts are based on goodness, not evil,” he also said to the court. Today was a somewhat difficult day in the court, as one of the judges was removed for saying last year that he felt Breivik should face the death penalty.
Dressed in a dark suit and sporting a thin beard, Breivik smiled as a guard removed his handcuffs in the crowded court room. The 33-year-old then flashed his salute before shaking hands with prosecutors and court officials.
“I don’t recognize Norwegian courts because you get your mandate from the Norwegian political parties who support multiculturalism,” Breivik said in his first comments to the court.
Eight people were killed in Breivik’s bombing of Oslo’s government district and 69 were slain in his shooting massacre at the left-leaning Labor Party’s youth camp on Utoya island outside the capital. Breivik has said the attacks were necessary to protect Norway from being taken over by Muslims.
“I admit to the acts, but not criminal guilt,” he told the court, insisting he had acted in self-defense.
It’s important to note that Breivik went on an island full of camp-goers and started shooting. The odds that any of them had weapons and posed a danger to Breivik is nil.
EDIT: We initially had a different phrase in place of “camp-goers,” but it was clouding the point a tad, so we changed it. Also, he’s speaking in favor of a concept of “preventative self-defense,” which legally exists as a concept in Norway, but nonetheless seems like a hard sell considering the nature of the crime. What would he have prevented by killing all these people? What risk did they create for him?
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Crazy clip of the night: In Norway, a truck and a tow truck driving down a slick road did not exactly have the best luck, as both fell down a steep incline. The tow truck driver made it out before his vehicle took a tumble; the truck driver didn’t, though he reportedly survived the fall with broken bones.
Year-end photos: What made it in, and what didn’t
In the Express newsroom, our year-end photo package always leads to a bit of debate — what should get in, and what shouldn’t? What tells the story of the year at large, and what gets pushed aside due to tough choices and limited room? Whittling it down to six pages and a cover is tough work. Here are a few shots that we put in the package — you might recognize them from covers and stories throughout the year — and a few that just missed the cut. (Hop over to today’s paper to see each of the ones that made the cut.)
- Aiming for Change A rebel fighter cheers as a rocket races toward Moammar Gadhafi loyalists amid fighting west of Ajdabiya, Libya, on April 14. NATO provided air support for the revolutionaries during the nearly nine-month conflict to oust Gadhafi. Perhaps the strongest photo we ran this year, it was one of the last photos taken by Chris Hondros, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who died in Libya on April 20. (Photo by Chris Hondros/Getty Images)
- Norway Grapples With Devastating Loss: Despite this being perhaps the most iconic image of the Norway shootings, several editors didn’t immediately recognize what news event it was from. It seemed like a generic mourning shot lacking the resonance we were looking for. We ended up using an image from Hurricane Irene in N.C., something with much more impact for local readers. (Photo by Emilio Morenatti/AP)
- Protests Hit a Nerve: University of California, Davis, police Lt. John Pike uses pepper spray Nov. 18 on seated Occupy UC Davis protesters. Spurred by the Canadian activist group Adbusters to protest economic inequality, the Occupy Wall Street movement began Sept. 17 in New York City and quickly spread to cities around the world. (Photo by Wayne Tilcock/The Enterprise/AP)
- The Situation Room: We love this shot, of course. But, while it is THE historic situation room shot from Osama bin Laden’s death, it didn’t work well on the page in the mix of photos we had. Too hard to read at a small size and too busy and overwhelming in a larger spot. In the end, the package worked best by playing better images bigger (Sept. 11 mourning, for example!) and nixing the sit room shot. (Photo by Pete Souza/The White House/AP)
- Collateral Damage: A limestone angel dislodged by an Aug. 23 earthquake lies shattered on the roof of the National Cathedral in Northeast D.C. The magnitude-5.8 earthquake jolted much of the Mid-Atlantic region. Officials say the cathedral sustained about $25 million worth of damage, which could take up to 10 years to repair. (Photo by J. Scott Applewhite/AP)
- Meme on ice: We discovered that we had overlooked this local photo about five minutes after deadline. This was probably the picture we gushed about most when it happened (The gelato from the place across the street! In the snow! Whilst wearing a pink shirt!). Drat! Three lovely photo spreads ruined without the Ice Cream Cone Man. (Photo by Ricky Carioti/TWP)
Think we made the right picks?
The Washington Post Express makes a big deal out of its year-end photo packages. And this year was no exception — the paper ran six pages and the cover. Here are a few of the shots we ran, and a few others we passed on. — Ernie @ SFB
THIS IS EXACTLY HOW OUR BUTTER CRISIS WENT DOWN. Do NOT listen to any other media sources on this issue; they are lying. This NMA place knows everything there is to know about everything.
On the Norway butter crisis beat, it appears Taiwanese animators have figured out exactly what went wrong.
BUTTER AUCTION! If you are American and wondering how much this “kr 900” thingy is, go over here. This is an auction, currently at $156, for 3.3 pounds of butter. That’s roughly $3 an ounce. For butter. OH GOD NOOOOOooooooooooooOOOOOOOoooo
This NorwayButterCrisis Tumblr sounds increasingly desperate.
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