British conservative and anti-Islam activist Tommy Robinson released audio from Woodhill Prison where he has been kept in solitary confinement for the last 2 months, revealing that he feels "different." Robinson was sentenced to 18 months in prison beginning in October, much of which he will spend in solitary "for his own safety."
He began by cautioning those who have spoken out in support of him not to direct their anger toward the prison, but rather toward the UK government for keeping him in isolation. He revealed that he was required to write his response on his opinion of his solitary confinement to the government, which he has. It stated, "This doesn't have to happen."
"When I came in here I sat down with a psychiatrist and I said to her, 'What's nine months of solitary confinement going to do to me?' She said it's going to be devastating to your mental health.' So I said 'Why are they doing it?'"
He also detailed how he has been required to meet with governors and mental health professionals every two weeks for as long as he is held in isolation, noting that this past time he met with them he told them "I feel different."
He began by cautioning those who have spoken out in support of him not to direct their anger toward the prison, but rather toward the UK government for keeping him in isolation. He revealed that he was required to write his response on his opinion of his solitary confinement to the government, which he has. It stated, "This doesn't have to happen."
"When I came in here I sat down with a psychiatrist and I said to her, 'What's nine months of solitary confinement going to do to me?' She said it's going to be devastating to your mental health.' So I said 'Why are they doing it?'"
He also detailed how he has been required to meet with governors and mental health professionals every two weeks for as long as he is held in isolation, noting that this past time he met with them he told them "I feel different."
"It’s 2025. What amounts to mental torture is being inflicted on a journalist because I made a film."
Robinson described an excruciatingly bland daily routine of being let out for 45 minutes every day to an exercise yard completely by himself, taken to the shower room completely alone, and then put back in his cell. "21 hours a day I sit on that bed," he said, repeating, "This shouldn't be happening. Why shouldn't it be happening? Because that's mental torture."
