Zaniar Matapour (44) was arrested by the police shortly after the shooting on 25 June last year, and has since been in custody and charged with terrorism. Recently, he has been locked up in a ward with a particularly high level of security at Ullersmo prison. Part of the reason for this is that the Correctional Service believes that the 44-year-old is trying to recruit inmates and that inmates are planning to attack staff in the prison. This is revealed in a recent ruling from the Oslo district court. Matapour was transferred from Halden prison to Kongsvinger prison in May, the ruling states. This summer, however, the Correctional Service Inlandet decided that Matapour should be transferred to a particularly high-security unit at Ullersmo. He was already isolated due to a violent incident in the prison, and the Prison and Probation Service writes in a statement that this is due to his behaviour: “Due to observations made by the prison and the charge, we find it likely that the accused has affiliation with an organized criminal environment with radical Islamists . We suspect that he is trying to recruit inmates and form ties with like-minded people, and that this increases the risk of a new incident taking place,” says the setting referred to in the ruling. In another decision from October, which the ruling also refers to, it is stated that the Correctional Service is concerned about the employees’ safety. – I have received the ruling and will give my advice to the client when I notify him of that decision, says Matapour’s defender, Marius Dietrichson, to news on Monday afternoon. Complaints about sentencing conditions On Friday last week, Matapour himself appeared in the Oslo district court in connection with a prison meeting. This is the first meeting he has attended since the dramatic arrest in central Oslo in June last year. The reason why he appeared himself was to complain about the conditions under which he is serving time. Matapour’s defender, Marius Dietrichson, believes the prison conditions are “inhumane”. – He is deeply isolated in a way that we are not used to in the Norwegian prison regime. It must stop immediately, Dietrichson told news last week. Together with the terrorist-accused client, Dietrichson demanded that the complaints about the sentencing relationship should be dealt with judicially. The question was dealt with in the Oslo District Court on Monday. The District Court believes that Matapour’s prison conditions are not contrary to the European Convention on Human Rights, as Dietrichson stated.
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