GENEVA – United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem, today welcomed ongoing proceedings in the United States to extradite Andrew Tate and Tristan Tate to the United Kingdom, describing the proceedings as an important step towards ensuring the brothers face accountability for serious allegations of violence against women and girls.
“After years of law enforcement and prosecutorial authorities ignoring and dismissing the testimonies and experiences of women who came forward with credible allegations against the Tate brothers, these recent proceedings offer renewed hope that justice may finally be achieved through effective international cooperation,” Alsalem said. “Given in particular the scale of the alleged offences, and the Tate brothers’ global influence in promoting misogyny and harmful models of masculinity, it is urgent and imperative that they face justice.”
The Special Rapporteur noted that Andrew and Tristan Tate, dual British and United States nationals and former professional kickboxers turned online influencers, were arrested in Miami, in the United States, on 18 July 2026 following a United Kingdom extradition request. They remain in custody in the United States while challenging their extradition to the UK, where they face a total of 59 criminal charges, including rape, sexual assault, facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation, assault, and offences relating to indecent images of a child and extreme pornography. Separate criminal proceedings remain ongoing in Romania concerning allegations including human trafficking, including the trafficking of minors.
The Special Rapporteur urged the three governments to ensure that the Tate brothers face justice, reminding them of the duty of States to protect the right of victims of exploitation and violence to pursue accountability for crimes inflicted on them without fear of retaliation, intimidation or further revictimization; and to uphold their rights to dignity and privacy.
“All too often, perpetrators of violence against women exploit delays, fragmented jurisdictional responses and their wealth, power or influential public profile to evade accountability. No one should be above the law, regardless of their status, influence or international reach,” Alsalem said.
She also called for the justice process to be expanded to include those that aided, abetted and profited from the Tate brothers’ criminal enterprise of grooming, exploiting and abusing women and girls, rather than narrowing it to their individual criminal responsibility.
On 4 March 2026, the Special Rapporteur transmitted communications to the Governments of Romania and the United Kingdom with copies to the United States, concerning information she received regarding the poor handling of allegations of rape, strangulation, intimidation and retaliation made by a woman who alleged that she had been sexually assaulted by Andrew Tate in Romania in 2018.
