ASAP Rocky: Swedish prison boss defends jail conditions

The Swedish prison where rapper ASAP Rocky is being held has said he is being held in “good conditions”.

The 30-year-old hip hop star was arrested after a concert in Stockholm last week on suspicion of assault. He is being held at Kronoberg prison pending trial has has had to suspend his tour, missing the Wireless Festival in London, UK at the weekend.

Fredrik Wallin governor of the jail has spoken to Radio 1’s Newsbeat to address claims by TMZ.com that the rapper is being held in a "disease-ridden" prison where the food is "inedible".

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Wallin said while he is not able to comment on individual prisoners, “I am able to talk about the general conditions in the remand prison which apply to all prisoners.”

TMZ claimed it had been told by “a US Embassy official” that Rocky being held in a cell next to someone with "severe mental issues who slams his head against the concrete wall and hurls faeces every which way... faeces that are not cleaned up".

A source reportedly told them he was being made to sleep on a yoga mat with no blanket, drink water that was not clean, and had only been given an apple to eat each day during his first five days at the prison.

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And ASAP Mob member ASAP Ferg claims Rocky is being held in solitary confinement.

But Wallin said prisoners at Kronoberg normally live in cells that contain a desk, a bed with a mattress, and a TV.

He says the prison was renovated in the last few years, with all prison cells being in "good condition".

ASAP Rocky is being held while Swedish prosecutors investigate allegations of assault.

The Praise The Lord rapper had been in Stockholm to perform at a festival, but was arrested afterwards.

Video posted to his Instagram account showed Rocky and his crew asking two men to stop following them. One of the men accused them of breaking his headphones.

In the caption for the first video ASAP Rocky wrote: "We don't know these guys and we didn't want trouble. They followed us for four blocks."