OSLO, June 9 (Xinhua) -- Norway's mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik has changed his name to Fjotolf Hansen, local newspaper Verdens Gang reported Friday.
Breivik, who killed 77 people in attacks in 2011, is now known as Fjotolf Hansen in the National Registry and his lawyer, Oystein Storrvik, has confirmed the change, according to Verdens Gang.
But Storrvik said he did not want to disclose why and when the name was changed.
On Thursday, Norway's Supreme Court announced it will not process Breivik's appeal on his prison conditions, saying no parts of his appeal have opportunities to give different outcome than what the appeals court came to.
Storrvik said he would appeal the case as soon as possible to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
The appeals court ruled in March that the Norwegian government had not violated the human rights of the convicted mass murderer by holding him in isolation in prison.
Last year, Oslo district court supported the mass killer's claim that his prison conditions violated his human rights as he was subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment according to the European Convention on Human Rights.
On July 22, 2011, Breivik set off a car bomb that killed eight people outside the government headquarters in Oslo before killing 69 others in a shooting rampage on Utoya Island, where young members of the governing Labor Party had gathered for their annual summer camp.
Breivik was sentenced to 21 years in prison in 2012 at Oslo district court.
