confinement for 23 hours a day he made the disturbing revelations in a phone call to his friend von smith on christmas eve. all fall and it was very upsetting to hear him the idea of him being sedated has come from several people who visited him who clearly. and the british government have been asked about it and they refused to address that matter and what they say is they're not mistreating him but clearly he's being kept in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day he sounded awful and he said to me that i'm slowly dying here please remember he's served that time all the bail charge and he served his time to that he's now on remand it's highly unusual to put a remand prison in belmarsh when not a threat of a physical violent threat to society i think we need our answers from from the british government why are they treating him like this why can't we have some independent assessment 100 international got to those and asked to arrange a visit at least to send some representatives to check on him but that hasn't been allowed and those melts that the un route for toronto actually has been v