
Charged is not convicted
Four years of headlines have been written about two men who have never been found guilty of anything, in any country.
Charged is not convicted.
Three and a half years. Three countries. Jailed, house-arrested, stripped of roughly four million dollars in property, and now held in a federal detention centre in Miami. Not one charge, anywhere, has ever been tested at a trial.
You do not have to like them. You only have to want the same rules applied to you.

Rape, human trafficking, indecent images of a child, assault.

Rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Four years of headlines have been written about two men who have never been found guilty of anything, in any country.

The earliest allegations were investigated for four years and closed without charge. Seven years later, the same file was reopened.

In December 2024 the Bucharest Court of Appeal refused to send the case to trial and returned the file to prosecutors, citing irregularities.

Three months in a Romanian jail. Months of house arrest. Roughly four million dollars of property seized. Years of travel bans. All before a trial that has not happened.

Andrew Tate says he has been held in the Special Housing Unit at FDC Miami with no calls, no visits, no commissary and almost no time out of the cell.

In August 2022 Meta, TikTok and YouTube removed Andrew Tate within days of each other. The first arrest came four months later.

Andrew Tate says he is held in the Special Housing Unit at FDC Miami with no calls, no visits, no commissary and almost no time out of the cell. His counsel describes a cell of roughly five feet by twelve.
He is not serving a sentence. He is a pre-trial detainee contesting an extradition request. The Bureau of Prisons declined to confirm the placement, citing privacy, safety and security, and disputes his claims about the facility's water, saying it is certified safe to drink.
The UN Mandela Rules treat solitary confinement beyond fifteen consecutive days as prohibited. Whatever you believe about the charges, isolation should require a justification stated on the record.

“We are of course objecting to extradition because Andrew and Tristan are innocent.”
Joseph McBride
Speaking after the brothers' first appearance in Miami federal court.
CNN
“This feels political.”
Joseph McBride
On the timing of the arrest. McBride offered no evidence for the connection he drew, and this site presents it as his position, not as established fact.
Euronews
“Of the seven days I was in the Special Housing Unit, I was allowed my daily one hour of exercise twice.”
Andrew Tate
Posted to X from custody. The Bureau of Prisons has disputed his claims about the facility's water, saying it is certified safe to drink.
Local 10 NewsRomanian authorities seize luxury cars, watches and cash. Reported totals run to fifteen vehicles and fourteen watches. Appeals against the seizure are refused. No court has yet heard the case.
Hertfordshire Constabulary announces it will reinvestigate the rape and sexual assault allegations reported to it between 2014 and 2015, closed in 2019 after the CPS did not charge. The announcement comes a day after the Independent Office for Police Conduct said a former detective constable could face gross misconduct proceedings over alleged failures to properly investigate the case. The three complainants said in a joint statement that the reopening was long overdue.
Andrew Tate says he is being held in solitary confinement at FDC Miami with no calls, no visits, no commissary and almost no time out of the cell. In a post from his seventh day in the unit he says he was allowed his one hour of exercise twice. His counsel describes a five by twelve foot cell. The Bureau of Prisons declined to confirm the placement, citing privacy, safety and security. He is a pre-trial detainee contesting extradition. He has been convicted of nothing.
US Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis sets a hearing to decide whether the brothers are released during what could be a months-long extradition process. Their lawyers argue they are not a flight risk, having attended every hearing in Romania for over three years. They stay in custody until then.
13 August 2026. Judge Lauren Louis decides whether Andrew and Tristan Tate wait for the extradition process at liberty, or in a cell.
Only whether Andrew and Tristan Tate wait for the extradition process at liberty or in a cell. Nothing about guilt, and nothing about the charges themselves.
US Magistrate Judge Lauren Louis, in the Southern District of Florida. The test is flight risk and danger to the community, argued on evidence.
That in more than three years under Romanian judicial control they did not flee, and complied with the court's requirements throughout.
That both men remain a flight risk and should stay in custody until the extradition process concludes. A hearing has two sides and this page is not the place to pretend otherwise.
Either way the extradition process continues, and it could run for months. That is exactly why the conditions they wait in matter.
Call for Andrew and Tristan Tate to be released pending the outcome of proceedings, for an end to any confinement in a Special Housing Unit that is not justified on the record, and for their cases to be heard promptly in open court so the evidence can be tested and judged.
In August 2022 Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and YouTube removed him in a matter of days. The answer was to build somewhere they did not control. The Real World is that platform, and it is still running while its founder sits in a cell in Miami.
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