Brian Tamaki has been given his personal hygiene items after his supporters protested outside Mt Eden prison over claims they had been withheld.
The controversial Destiny Church leader is remanded in custody at the Mt Eden Corrections Facility until January 27 after his bail application was refused earlier this week.
Tamaki is facing multiple charges relating to the COVID-19 Protection Public Health Order and breaching bail conditions.
His supporters flocked to the prison on Monday after his arrest and have been camped out ever since.
In a Facebook live video of the protest Tamaki's son-in-law Caine Warren said they had been told by police the self-proclaimed apostle had received his hygiene products, but Tamaki told them he had been denied them.
Warren said these "lies" had upset his mother-in-law Hannah.
In the video supporters can be seen standing with arms linked, while Warren asked police to send someone from senior management from the prison down to talk, telling them not to "sit on their bums like that. We are not going to move."
An accompanying post said "Prison/police representatives have lied to the Tamaki family - the family were advised that Apostle Brian Tamaki had received his personal hygiene items as was discussed and agreed.
"However when the family received one of their phone calls from Apostle Brian, it was revealed that this had not happened.
"Church representatives are advising that because the prison/police had lied about their actions and still have not complied with their agreement, disruptive action would be taken.
"The barricade will remain until they receive a call directly from Apostle Tamaki notifying that the agreement was acted upon correctly."
The protest lasted a couple of hours and blocked vehicles coming in and out of the prison.
At the end of the video a prison guard confirmed Tamaki wasn't given his toiletries but since the protest started he had received them.
The guard said Tamaki was a "happy man at this stage."
Tamaki's son-in-law thanked the guard for helping his father-in-law for getting the items through and the protest disbanded.
Corrections said they were unable to say why the products hadn't originally been delivered to Tamaki saying in a statement to Newshub: "Our overriding priority is the safety of the public, our staff and the people we manage. For operational and security reasons, and due to our legislative obligations to protect personal information, we are unable to comment on the specific management of individual people.
"All people in prison are managed in accordance with the provisions set out in the Corrections Act 2004 and our international obligations for the treatment of prisoners. Every person in prison is provided with the minimum entitlements set out in the Corrections Act 2004 here.
"All remand and sentenced prisoners are provided with daily meals, adequate clothing to provide for their safety, warmth, health and comfort, and essential health, sanitary and hygiene products. In addition, people can purchase goods and grocery items through the prisoner canteen, and can have approved personal property sent to them by friends and family.
"We respect people's right to protest, however we are mindful of the impact on our neighbours and regret any inconvenience for them."
A police spokesperson told Newshub on Tuesday they've been monitoring behaviour at the ongoing protest.
"We are aware of some concerns raised from local residents in relation to the level of noise by those present and we have been liaising with the Auckland Council and Corrections as well as the organisers," they said.
"Police are not aware of any concerns in relation to criminal behaviour or offences from individuals present at the gathering and we will continue to monitor the situation in case of any issues."
Newshub has contacted Destiny Church for comment.
