> The supposed human trafficking charges against him appear to be completely bogus and Kafka-esque, and therefore violate his rights against arbitrary arrest and detention.
I don't know enough details on the 'kafka-esque' nature of the charges, so I won't comment on them, but he has more than one credible rape accusations him against in his home country, and he talks openly about using women as sex workers and taking their income from it.
According to NYT (https://archive.md/4tSmc) prosecutors haven't made the key details of the charges public, and the media reports sharply contradict Tate's own characterization of the charges in recent interviews. This is roughly the premise of Kafka's "The Trial".
It's hard to judge what is true or not, especially if it's about a public figure and especially when said public figure seems to be making the most idiotic choices ever.
There are plenty of women pretending to be cool, even doing rape role play and then using recorder material to blackmail men.
He was obviously into BDSM stuff (he was being grilled for a video in which he was hitting a woman with a belt - the woman went on video to record it was consensual), so it would be incredibly easy to trap and blackmail.
Similar situation with human trafficking: the girls were always free to leave but they were getting paid for sex work. He was for sure a digital pimp (not sure if that's a crime).
Overall, I don't think Tate is an actual abuser: it would be incredibly stupid to go public with such a past; I'd bet he is just a self centered narcissist who likes to get into risky and dumb situations and thinks nothing bad will happen to him because he's God.
These two things are not mutually exclusive. In fact, one would think that a narcissist who has gotten away with it all his life would think he was invulnerable. It certainly tracks that he would be open about it.
And really, if it walks like a rapist, and it talks like a rapist, and it acts like a rapist... it is probably a rapist.
I don't know enough details on the 'kafka-esque' nature of the charges, so I won't comment on them, but he has more than one credible rape accusations him against in his home country, and he talks openly about using women as sex workers and taking their income from it.