Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers filed a lawsuit on Tuesday (November 26) against the city of New York, in the United States, alleging that the disgraced former Hollywood producer receives substandard medical care and lives in an unsanitary environment in prison. Rikers Island, NBC News reports.
In a lengthy statement accompanying the lawsuit, Weinstein’s attorney, Imran H. Ansari, compared the Rikers Island detention center to “a gulag where prisoners are treated like animals.”
“The last time I visited him, I found him in his prison clothes splattered with blood, probably from IVs, clothes that hadn’t been washed in weeks, and no one had even provided him with clean underwear, which is unhygienic for someone.” who suffers from serious health problems and is prone to getting sick,” the lawyer writes.
According to several American media, Harvey Weinstein, who had heart surgery in September, suffers from bone marrow cancer.
“The treatment, or lack thereof, of Mr. Weinstein at Rikers Island constitutes not only medical negligence, but cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment,” Ansari added, “we intend to fight fiercely for his rights and, thus, defend the integrity of our judicial system and the values enshrined in our Constitution.
His lawyers demand 5 million dollars
The Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution states that “disproportionate bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel or unusual punishment.”
In addition, the former film producer’s lawyers are demanding $5 million in damages from the city of New York.
Harvey Weinstein, charged in September with another sexual assault, was remanded in custody earlier this year after the New York appeals court overturned his 2020 rape conviction. He is expected to be retried in 2025. The former American producer continues to plead his innocence and deny it. any irregularity.
Source: BFM TV
