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He has been in solitary confinement on the small prison island of Imrali, south-west of Istanbul, since he was captured in 1999.

All that time he was held in solitary confinement in a high security Belarusian prison for daring to stand up to a dictator.

Later that year, Hichilema told the BBC that he had been held in solitary confinement for the first eight days in degrading and inhumane conditions "without electricity, without water, without a toilet".

“They don’t care if he dies in solitary confinement. That is obvious. The smug and sanctimonious tenor of their briefing makes that plain. But there is nothing sanctimonious about what is happening to Mr. Kelly.”

Per his attorney, the former R&B megastar was removed from solitary confinement at a North Carolina prison and taken to Duke University Hospital.