Norway's Supreme Court will not process the appeal by mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik on his prison conditions and he will take the case to the European Court of Human Rights, local media reported Thursday.
It was not immediately clear whether Breivik would appeal to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, but his lawyer has said in the past that it was an option.
A three-strong Supreme Court panel said "no part" of Breivik's appeal would change the ruling handed down in March by an Oslo appeals court that stated Breivik does not face inhumane or degrading treatment in prison.
"Neither does the case raise any questions about the interpretation of the European Convention that haven't already been sufficiently clarified by the practices of the European Court of Human Rights", it added.
On July 22, 2011, Breivik killed eight people with a vehicle bomb outside the prime minister's office in Oslo and then gunned down 69 others on an island near the capital, many of them teenagers attending a youth camp of Norway's then-ruling Labour Party. Breivik's only contacts are lawyers and professionals such as guards and health workers.
"We've always been prepared for the possibility that our case before the Norwegian courts may not succeed".
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Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison in 2012 at Oslo district court. He said he killed his victims because they embraced multiculturalism.
That verdict was also a heavy blow to the Norwegian state, which prides itself of having a humane prison system. Download it today and continue to enjoy STV News wherever you are.
"So I'm not very anxious".
"This ensures that we are not going to see the terrorist for many, many years", she told Reuters. "I'm just happy that we won't be hearing about him for a long, long time".
Victims and survivors' families have welcomed the supreme court's decision.
Breivik has now exhausted his legal avenues in Norway.
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