An appeal to change Andrew Tate's detention to house arrest has been granted, an official announced on Friday. Tate is the contentious internet personality who has spent months in a Romanian jail on charges of organized crime and human trafficking.
According to Ramona Bolla, a spokeswoman for Romania's anti-organized crime organization, DIICOT, the Bucharest Court of Appeal ruled in favor of Tate's appeal, which challenged a judge's last week order to extend his arrest for a fourth time for 30 days.
Tate, a 36-year-old dual citizen of the United Kingdom and the United States with 5.4 million Twitter followers, was first held in late December in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, along with his brother Tristan and two Romanian ladies.
The four succeeded in their appeal on Friday and will now be under house arrest until April 29, according to Bolla. The four have not yet been formally charged. Tate, a professional kickboxer who has lived in Romania since 2017, has previously been blocked from using a number of social media sites due to the expression of hate speech and misogynistic beliefs. He has argued time and time again that Romanian prosecutors lack proof and that their case is a "political" plot to silence him.
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