https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed An Oslo court on Wednesday jailed two jihadists of Pakistani and Chechen origin for six and seven and a half years respectively for joining the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in Syria. https://www.thelocal.no/20160804/two-jailed-in-norway-for-joining-isis-in-syria Thu, 04 Aug 2016 13:35:21 +0200 two-jailed-in-norway-for-joining-isis-in-syria 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20150701/breivik-takes-norway-to-court-on-human-rights Wed, 01 Jul 2015 20:38:41 +0200 breivik-takes-norway-to-court-on-human-rights 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20150529/norway-child-services-sued-for-3m-for-lost-childood Fri, 29 May 2015 17:25:55 +0200 norway-child-services-sued-for-3m-for-lost-childood 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20150226/breivik-breaks-with-long-term-lawyer Thu, 26 Feb 2015 14:05:33 +0100 breivik-breaks-with-long-term-lawyer 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20150216/breiviks-fellow-prisoners-ba Mon, 16 Feb 2015 11:45:00 +0100 breiviks-fellow-prisoners-ba 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”. https://www.thelocal.no/20150211/breivik-to-take-norway-to-court-by-easter Wed, 11 Feb 2015 09:04:00 +0100 breivik-to-take-norway-to-court-by-easter 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20140328/accused-msn-child-abuser-a-psychopath-say-shrinks Fri, 28 Mar 2014 10:23:00 +0100 accused-msn-child-abuser-a-psychopath-say-shrinks 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20140321/farmer-let-400-pigs-starve-to-death Sat, 22 Mar 2014 00:09:00 +0100 farmer-let-400-pigs-starve-to-death 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20140124/main-jailed-for-trashing-brothers-house-with-fork-life Fri, 24 Jan 2014 01:41:00 +0100 main-jailed-for-trashing-brothers-house-with-fork-life 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20140103/men-on-trial-in-biggest-ever-drugs-trial Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:34:05 +0100 men-on-trial-in-biggest-ever-drugs-trial 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20131120/norway-woman-locked-dog-in-bathroom-until-it-died Wed, 20 Nov 2013 09:51:00 +0100 norway-woman-locked-dog-in-bathroom-until-it-died 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20130912/bookseller-of-kabul-to-take-case-to-strasbourg Thu, 12 Sep 2013 11:43:00 +0200 bookseller-of-kabul-to-take-case-to-strasbourg 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20130813/norway-woman-killed-paedophile-stepfather-to-stop-abuse Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:35:00 +0200 norway-woman-killed-paedophile-stepfather-to-stop-abuse 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20130703/norwegian-mafia-felled-for-contract-killing Wed, 03 Jul 2013 16:02:00 +0200 norwegian-mafia-felled-for-contract-killing A 72-year-old woman from northern Norway has been charged with abusing her husband for more than 40 years. https://www.thelocal.no/20120515/woman-abused-her-husband-for-40-years-prosecutors Tue, 15 May 2012 13:24:00 +0200 woman-abused-her-husband-for-40-years-prosecutors 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. https://www.thelocal.no/20111220/sleeping-jury-could-prompt-manslaughter-retrial Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:24:07 +0100 sleeping-jury-could-prompt-manslaughter-retrial A vegetable grower upset with the eating habits of vagrant elk is filing suit against his township for costs and lost produce. https://www.thelocal.no/20110915/farmer-sues-for-millions-lost-to-hungry-elk Thu, 15 Sep 2011 13:27:22 +0200 farmer-sues-for-millions-lost-to-hungry-elk