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Breivik takes Norway to court on human rights
Anti-Islamist terrorist Anders Behring Breivik has taken legal action against the Norwegian state claiming his four years of "extreme isolation" in prison is a violation of his human rights.
Norway Child Welfare Service in $3m lawsuit
Five brothers and sisters are suing Norway’s Child Welfare Service for 25m NOK ($3m) for failing to protect them from their psychiatrically ill father despite frequent alerts that he was abusing them and their mother.
Breivik loses lawyer over 'unrealistic' demands
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has broken with his long-standing defence lawyer Geir Lippestad as the law firm was preparing to launch a new law suit aimed at freeing their client from solitary confinement.
Fellow inmates want Breivik out of solitary
Inmates at Norway’s Skein prison are backing the campaign of far-Right terrorist Anders Behring Breivik to be released from solitary confinement, although only because they feel his treatment draws resources away from them.
Mass killer Breivik to take Norway to court
Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik is preparing to take Norway’s Ministry of Justice to court, arguing that his prolonged solitary confinement amounts to “torture”.
Accused MSN child abuser 'a psychopath'
Court psychiatrists in Norway believe that Ammaz Omer Qureshi, the British man accused of ordering his Norwegian girlfriend to abuse her daughter live online, is a psychopath with narcissistic and antisocial personality disorders.
Farmer left 400 pigs to starve to death
A Norwegian court on Friday sentenced a farmer to a year in prison for leaving more than 400 pigs to die of hunger and thirst in a rare case of animal cruelty, reported public broadcaster NRK.
Jail for trashing brother's house with fork-lift
A man in Norway was last week sentenced to 14 months in prison for demolishing his elder brother's house with a fork-lift truck.
Men face court in 'biggest ever' drugs trial
Seven men are going on trial in what is being described as Norway’s biggest ever prosecution for making fake drugs, including Viagra and steroids.
Woman locked dog in bathroom until it died
A woman in Norway has been sentenced to a 21-day suspended sentence for locking her dog in a bathroom and leaving it there until it died.
'Bookseller of Kabul' to take case to Strasbourg
The family of Shah Muhammad Rais, the subjects of the best-selling 'Bookseller of Kabul', have decided to take their case against Norwegian author Asne Seierstad to the European Court of Human Rights.
Norwegian stabbed father 'to stop abuse'
A Norwegian woman who stabbed her stepfather to death has claimed that she was forced to do it to prevent him from abusing more children.
Norwegian 'mafia' felled for contract killing
A court in Norway has freed four men with ties to the Bandidos motorcycle gang from charges of organized crime, but found them guilty of contract killing and extortion.
Woman abused husband for 40 years: prosecutors
A 72-year-old woman from northern Norway has been charged with abusing her husband for more than 40 years.
Sleeping jury could lead to manslaughter retrial
Norway’s Director of Public Prosecutions is seeking a retrial in the case of a 30-year-old man cleared of manslaughter last month after it emerged that “one or two” jury members had fallen asleep in court.