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Norwegian Mass Murderer Loses Human Rights Case

Anders Behring Breivik claimed the isolation and repeated strip searches he experiences in prison violate his human rights.
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Norway's most notorious convict lost his appeal to the highest European court, that his living conditions in prison violated his human rights.

Anders Behring Breivik was convicted of killing 77 people. In 2011, he set off a car bomb outside Norway's prime minister's office, killing eight. He then killed 69 people, mostly teenagers, at a summer camp. 

Breivik, who legally changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, was sentenced to 21 years in prison, Norway's longest sentence. And by most standards, he's not roughing it: He lives in a three-room cell complete with video games, a typewriter, a DVD player, books and exercise equipment.

But he has long claimed his isolation and repeated strip searches, among other things, violate his human rights. His case made it all the way to the European Court of Human Rights.

But the court ruled against the appeal. The three judges called the claim "inadmissible" and "manifestly ill-founded."

Additional reporting from Newsy-affiliate CNN.