Norway - Anders Behring Breivik, the infamous mass Norwegian killer, has asked for a hearing to be released on parole. The hearing is scheduled for Tuesday in a Norwegian court. Breivik believes he should be released from prison after spending more than a decade behind bars.

Breivik, a far-right extremist, killed 77 people in Norway's worst peacetime atrocity in July 2011. He killed eight with a car bomb in Oslo and then gunned down 69, most of them teenagers, at a Labour Party youth camp.

Breivik, now 42, is serving Norway's maximum sentence of 21 years, which can be extended indefinitely if he is deemed a continued threat to society.

The Telemark court in Skien, southwest of the capital, where Breivik is serving his sentence, will begin hearing the case on Tuesday after the Oslo state prosecutor's office last year rejected Breivik's application for early release.

Proceedings will take place over a maximum of four days in a makeshift courtroom inside Skien prison, with a decision expected about a week later.

If his request for release is denied, Breivik, who has changed his legal name to Fjotolf Hansen, can apply for a new probation hearing in a year's time.

Breivik lost a human rights case in 2017 when an appeals court overturned the decision of a lower court that his near-isolation in a three-room cell was inhumane. A subsequent appeal was also rejected by The European Court of Human Rights.
-Reuters