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Harvey WeinsteinThe man’s lawyer says the disgraced mogul is being “completely abused” while locked up in Riker’s Island jail, and fears his client will die if his conditions and treatments do not improve.

Although the former Hollywood producer 2020 convictions in New York State for rape and sexual assault were overturned in April 2024He remains in prison due to his 2022 convictions on sex crime charges in California.

Nearly two months after reports emerged claiming this Weinstein was diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia and is being treated in jail, his attorney, Imran H. Ansari, recalled visiting Riker’s The Hollywood Reporterwhere he said his client is being “completely abused.”

“Blood was splashed on him. I was shocked to see that any prisoner would be treated that way. He was completely unkempt. The clothes did not appear to be clean or washed,” Ansari claimed.

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“And he told me he hadn’t gotten clean underwear in two weeks. It was like he was being completely abused,” he continued while speaking to the outlet, referring to the prison as a “torture chamber or medieval dungeon.”

His comments come after Weinstein, 72, was subsequently taken to the emergency room an “alarming blood test result” required hospitalization earlier this week.

“He is expected to remain there until his condition stabilizes. His lack of care is not only medical malpractice, but a violation of his constitutional rights,” Ansari shared in a statement to PEOPLE.

“You don’t have to be a doctor to say this, but if you don’t get the medical treatment for terminal diseases like cancer, like leukemia, and it’s not controlled and it’s not treated properly, then the inevitable result of that is the dead,” Ansari said THR.

In a follow-up statement to PEOPLE on Friday, December 6, Ansari said he and Weinstein’s legal team hope that Weinstein “has suffered from a lack of adequate medical care and endured deplorable and inhumane conditions at Rikers Island while he suffers from a laundry list of medical problems, finally receives the medical care he deserves as a human being.”

“Under our law and Constitution, it should not matter whether an individual is a prisoner or not – basic medical care and humane and civil treatment are not only expected, but mandatory,” he said. PEOPLE contacted the New York City Department of Correction for comment but did not immediately hear back.

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