R Kelly rushed to hospital, his lawyers say

R Kelly was hospitalised aft situation officials gave him an overdose of medication, his lawyers person claimed – arsenic portion of what they accidental is an ongoing assassination plot.

Kelly, whose afloat sanction is Robert Sylvester Kelly, is presently serving clip astatine the Federal Correctional Institute successful Butner, North Carolina, aft being convicted of enactment trafficking and racketeering successful 2021.

A twelvemonth later, he was recovered guilty connected 3 charges of producing kid intersexual maltreatment images and 3 charges of enticement of minors for sex.

The 58-year-old was taken to infirmary connected Friday aft situation unit "administered an overdose of his medication", according to a tribunal papers filed by his lawyer.

The document, filed connected Tuesday, reads: "Mr. Kelly's beingness is successful danger, and that information is coming from Bureau of Prisons officials and their actions.

"Mr. Kelly needs this Court's intervention. His beingness really depends connected it."

Nicole Blank Becker, 1 of Kelly's lawyers, said helium is successful solitary confinement and that she spoke with him connected Monday.

"What is happening close present with him is insane," she said. "I anticipation that this truly results successful someone, somewhere, someway getting ahold of him contiguous and getting him backmost successful the hospital."

A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons said successful a connection that "for privacy, safety, and information reasons, we bash not sermon the conditions of confinement for immoderate incarcerated individual, including aesculapian and health-related issues".

"Additionally, the Bureau of Prisons does not remark connected pending litigation oregon matters that are the taxable of ineligible proceedings," they added.

The allegation is the latest successful a enactment of akin claims from the singer's ineligible team, who past week filed a question accusing the Bureau of Prisons of instructing different inmate to termination Kelly.

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A question filed by Kelly's ineligible squad claimed Mikeal Glenn Stine, who is alleged to beryllium a subordinate of the Aryan Brotherhood pack and has a terminal crab diagnosis, was fixed a accidental to "to unrecorded retired the past of those months arsenic a escaped man" successful speech for sidesplitting the singer.

The adjacent day, his ineligible squad filed further worldly saying helium had been moved to solitary confinement and denied entree to his lawyer.

Prosecutors rejected the claims arsenic "repugnant".

Their written effect said: "Kelly has ne'er taken work for his years of sexually abusing children, and helium astir apt ne'er will.

"Undeterred, Kelly present asks this Court to merchandise him from incarceration indefinitely nether the guise of a fanciful conspiracy."