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Andrew and Tristan Tate’s Lawyer Says They’re Being Treated Like Prisoners. In Other News, They’re Literally Prisoners.

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Manosphere influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate were arrested in July at the request of British authorities. They are currently being held in U.S. federal custody while they fight extradition to the U.K. They’re both facing charges on rape, sexual assault, and arranging/facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, among other charges.

Two men seated at a sporting event — one in a green suit with glasses, the other bald in a floral shirt wearing sunglasses and a diamond chain necklace.
Tristan Tate, left, in a green suit, and Andrew Tate, wearing sunglasses and a floral shirt, seated together as spectators at UFC 327 at the Kaseya Center in Miami on April 11, 2026. Photo by Julia Demaree Nikhinson / Reuters.

Previously, they were arrested in Romania in 2022 on separate charges of human trafficking, rape and forming an organized criminal group to sexually exploit women. Andrew has also face separate charges in Romania of trafficking of minors, sex with a minor, money laundering and attempting to influence witnesses.

Since their arrest, the brothers have been complaining that prisons should be more comfortable and we should treat prisoners better.

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Andrew Tate speaks to members of the media outside his Bucharest residence on March 23, 2025, the deadline set by his bail conditions to return to Romania after a visit to the United States. Photo by Andrei Pungovschi / Getty Images.

Their most recent claim is that they were locked in their cells when guards deployed pepper spray in the unit on Sunday. According to their lawyer, the brothers had nothing to do with the incident, the guards had gas masks, and they did not.

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Their lawyer says the brothers soaked their T-shirts in the shower and wrapped the wet cloth around their faces to breathe. Two hours later a lawyer walked in for a legal visit and the air was allegedly still toxic enough to send him to urgent care.

A visiting attorney says he left FDC Miami’s Special Housing Unit with acute toxic conjunctivitis, a chemical eye injury, after just two short meetings there. Co-counsel Tom Maniotis says he cut his first visit short when his eyes burned and he couldn’t breathe, he came back two hours later hoping the air had cleared, and ended up going straight from the jail to urgent care.

The brothers have seen the sun four times since July 18 (you know, because they’re in jail). The lawyer describes bunks too short for their bodies, no pillows, and legal meetings in camera-monitored rooms.

A federal judge in Miami hears the motion for their release on August 27.

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