During January 18-21, the Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik will have his request for parole adjudicated by the Telemark District Court over a four-day trial.<\/p>\n
In 2012, he was sentenced<\/a> to preventive detention for a term of twenty-one years and a minimum period of ten years for the July 22, 2011 terror attacks. He was convicted for the murder of 77 individuals \u2013 most of them youth and children \u2013 and for the bombing of the Government quarter. He has now served the minimum 10-year sentence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The case itself will be litigated in a provisional court room located in the gymnastics hall at the Skien prison. The state prosecutor will seek to place Breivik in indefinite preventive detention on the grounds that he remains a danger to society.<\/p>\n The walls of Skien Prison, where a provisional courtroom is set up for Telemark District Court. Photo: Adrian Lillefj\u00e6re<\/p>\n<\/div>\n While there is no chance that Breivik will succeed, for survivors and the bereaved, just being faced with the prospect of another court case is both terrifying and provocative.<\/p>\n This intervention draws on the authors\u2019 engagement with the July 22 perpetrator trials in 2012, 2016\u201317 and 2022, as well as with transitional justice processes and war crimes trials after mass violence. In the project \u2018LAW22JULY: RIPPLES: Rights, Institutions, Procedures, Participation, Litigation: Embedding Security<\/a>\u2019, we explore the legal ripple effects of the terror attack \u00a0(including \u00a0blogs on contested closures<\/a>, litigation around memorials<\/a>, and securitization after the bomb<\/a>).<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blogs.prio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/xSkien-fengsel-1-730x548.jpg.pagespeed.ic.qLHnxd8ICg.jpg\")
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