The decision to transfer Josef Fritzl – who kept his daughter captive for 24 years and raped her thousands of times – to a regular prison has been overturned by an Austrian court, local media reports.
The court overturned the decision, made in January, to move the 88-year-old to a regular prison, news agency APA report.
The initial ruling was made on the basis that Fritzl no longer posed a danger.
It would have also likely paved the way for him to be released from prison into a nursing home.
Fritzl, who was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2009 for crimes including incest, rape, and enslavement – has been in psychiatric detention in a high-security unit at Stein prison.
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