A$AP Rocky And Struggle To Regain Freedom From Prison In Sweden

Just as any other music artists would, Rakim Mayers travelled on a tour to Sweden to perform at a Smash hip hop festival in the capital city Stockholm, unfortunately for him and his crew, they were involved in a street brawl with a local.

After the obscenity, the Harlem-born rapper was later arrested by the police after he turned himself in at the station on June 30. He had since been behind bars leading to cancelling of many shows and his fans have been cried against ill-treatment meted out to him and his crew by the authorities.

It has since been a real struggle for Rocky to regain his freedom despite several efforts to get him out of detention with President Donald Trump demanding that the Swedish government should grant him freedom, but that was turned down by the country's Prime Minister Stefan Lofven who stated in a text message that "the government cannot interfere in legal proceedings."

"We do so much for Sweden but it doesn't seem to work the other way round. Sweden should focus on its real crime problem! #FreeRocky," President Trump tweeted.

The alleged victim of A$AP Rocky's criminal assault case himself is an ex-convict of criminal assault and he committed the offence right at the same location where he provoked the rapper and his crew to the point that fight broke out.

According to TMZ, it was revealed that Mustafa Jafari was found guilty of hitting in the forehead and beating flat a victim back in 2016. Interestingly, he carried out the attack on his victim on the same street where he charged at the rapper and his crew before he was put in his place.

Being a juvenile, then aged 16, Mustafa was fined $500 and sentenced to 30 days of community service after he was convicted of assault. Mustafa's crime history did not stop there as he was charged with two minor drug offences in 2017 and again in 2018. Fortunately for him, he has not put behind bars at any points or for any of the crimes committed.

Meanwhile, Rocky and his associates have been charged with criminal assault and have spent almost four weeks in detention and his prosecutor maintained he has every necessary evidence against the defendants at the court.

Rocky stands the risk of being sentenced to two years in prison if found guilty of criminal assault levelled against him. Inversely, his prosecutor claimed his victim can be exonerated of his part in the obscenity while he takes on the defendants at the court trial set to hold in August.