{"id":6964,"date":"2017-04-25T19:43:28","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T23:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=6964"},"modified":"2017-04-25T19:43:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T23:43:28","slug":"oslo-court-extends-detention-17-year-old-terror-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/oslo-court-extends-detention-17-year-old-terror-suspect\/","title":{"rendered":"Oslo court extends detention of 17-year-old terror suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-description\">The teenage Russian citizen arrested in Oslo in possession of explosive materials earlier this month has been remanded in custody for a further two weeks.<\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>Visitations and media access to the suspect will remain restricted during the extended period, reports NRK.<\/p>\n<p>Norway\u2019s Police Security Service (PST) requested that the detainment hearing against the suspect at Oslo District Court Monday be held behind closed doors, stating that there were \u201cstrong\u201d suspicions against him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe there is a significant risk of forfeiting evidence if he is released now. The investigation is fully underway, but we are still at an early stage. Suspicions against him have increased since the investigation began,\u201d police lawyer Kathrine Tonstad told NRK.<\/p>\n<p>Tonstad declined to elaborate upon the reasons behind the strengthened suspicion against the teenager, but said that key to the investigation was uncovering his motive for carrying the explosive material through Oslo\u2019s Gr\u00f8nland district.<\/p>\n<p>After around two hours of negotiation the police request for extending the detainment of the teenager was approved, reports NRK.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is currently undecided as to whether to appeal the decision, according to the broadcaster.<\/p>\n<p>Aase Karine Sigmond, defence counsel for the suspect, told NRK that her client maintains his innocence and says he had no intention of harming anyone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI requested for him to be released. I cannot see any risk of compromising evidence. He denies the charges and has maintained this from the first hearing,\u201d Sigmond told NRK.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.no\/20170410\/norway-raises-threat-level-after-bomb-find-russian-arrested\">17-year-old Russian citizen was arrested on April 9th<\/a> \u2013 two days after a deadly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.se\/tag\/stockholm+attack\">terrorist attack in neighbouring Sweden<\/a> \u2013 when police were tipped off by the public.<\/p>\n<p>He was found in possession of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.no\/20170409\/norway-police-destroy-suspect-device-in-oslo\">bomb-like device<\/a>, which police later described as containing lighter gas and nails.<\/p>\n<p>The boy claimed that he intended to detonate the device at a \u2018deserted\u2019 spot.<\/p>\n<p>He was later reported to have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.no\/20170411\/17-year-old-accused-of-oslo-bomb-scare-remanded-for-two-weeks\">shown interest in terror group Islamic State<\/a> on social media, and police were previously warned of his suspicious behaviour by acquaintances, writes NRK.<\/p>\n<p>The teenager denies having contacted Islamic extremists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelocal.no\/20170424\/oslo-court-extends-detention-of-17-year-old-terror-suspect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">www.thelocal.no<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The teenage Russian citizen arrested in Oslo in possession of explosive materials earlier this month has been remanded in custody for a further two weeks. Visitations and media access to the suspect will remain restricted <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/04\/25\/oslo-court-extends-detention-17-year-old-terror-suspect\/\" title=\"Oslo court extends detention of 17-year-old terror suspect\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[3351,3352],"class_list":{"0":"post-6964","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"category-world","9":"tag-oslo","10":"tag-terrorist-charges","11":"pmpro-has-access"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6966,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6964\/revisions\/6966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}