Ahmed Mansoor has been subjected to various forms of torture and ill-treatment since his arrest. For more than a year following his arrest, he was held in an unknown location with no access to a lawyer and only very limited visits with family. He has been held in solitary confinement and systematically denied any meaningful contact with other prisoners, in conditions that may amount to torture. Between December 2017 and March 2018, authorities took away his mattress and denied him adequate warm clothing and access to hot water, cleaning products, and books. Mansoor has only been permitted to leave his small cell for a limited number of family visits and only once has he been allowed outside for fresh air in the prison’s exercise yard. In September 2019, it was reported that he was tortured by prison guards in Al-Sadr prison. Mansoor went on several hunger strikes in protest of his ill-treatment. He started his first hunger strike for four weeks on 17 March 2019, but ended it after the authorities permitted him to phone his sick mother and go outside in the sun for the first time. He began the second hunger strike on 07 September 2019 after he was severely beaten by the prison guards to demand access to basic necessities and an end to his solitary confinement. During his second hunger strike, he was forced fed by the gurards. The hunger strike lasted for around 45 days, during which he lost 11 kilograms.