Photos show a handcuffed Andrew Tate carrying the Quran to his court appearance on sex-trafficking charges

• Photos showed Andrew Tate and his brother Tristan arriving at court in Romania on Tuesday.
• They sought release from jail after being arrested in December in a human-trafficking investigation.

Photos show Andrew Tate arriving at Romanian court Tuesday, handcuffed to his brother Tristan and carrying the Quran.

Tate, Tristan, and two Romanian women were photographed pulling up to the courthouse in a police van.

All four were arrested in December as part of a human trafficking and rape investigation, and a court approved a request from authorities to jail them for 30 days.

The Tuesday hearing was for the Tate's to appeal the decision to keep them in jail. At the time of publication, the court had not decided whether to grant the appeal.

Photos from the courthouse showed Tate carrying a book which Insider identified as a dual-language version of the Quran, the holy text of Islam.

Analysis of the photos matched the book jacket to a translation by M. A. Abdel Haleem giving an English version alongside the original Arabic:

Tate publicly converted to Islam in October last year — despite the overt clash between traditional Islamic lifestyles and his webcam pornography business.

His friend and fellow influencer Tam Khan tweeted a video on October 24 that showed him teaching Tate how to pray. Khan also recently posted a video in support of Tate, denying the allegations against him.

On Tuesday, Khan posted photos noting Tate holding the Quran, which Tate's profile retweeted.

Tate's conversion sparked worry among some Muslims who said it was damaging to the community to be aligned with Tate's overt misogyny.

In a video where he announced he was a Muslim, Tate said he was going to "find myself a nice Islamic housewife, and build up a big pile of rocks in case she gets fresh," an apparent reference to the belief among some Muslims that people should be stoned to death for adultery.

Yousra Samir wrote in Al Jazeera in November that she was concerned Tate was using his popularity among alt-right Muslim men to rebrand himself.

"We need more and more Muslim men to join us in pushing back on misogyny in all its forms — online, on campus, at home, on the streets, and in the masjid," Samir wrote.

Tate, his brother, and the two women — Georgiana Naghe and Luana Radu — are accused of exploiting women to produce porn for their online business. Tate and the others were initially held for 24 hours, which a court extended to 30 days.

Tate has not made any public statement, but his lawyer gave an interview to the Romanian news outlet Gândul in which he said there was no evidence against the brothers.