This video is a call for help.
My mum is battling with stroke, and it is slowly taking her life. She needs urgent medical funds to stay alive, and I cannot do this alone anymore. Please, if you have it in your heart to help or retweet this to someone who can, I beg of you 🤲🏻🙏
Please, if you can, come to Luzira Magistrates Court and stand with Miria Matembe.
In times like these, it’s community and showing up that mean the most!
#FreeMiriaMatembe
🚨UPDATE: This is Atim Sheilla Gloria the judicial presiding officer who remanded mama Miria Matembe an old woman of 73years who’s facing concocted charges
I don’t know if these so called chief magistrates/judges are appointed on merit or favoritism
Now this Atim Sheilla Gloria who seems to be between 30’s to 40’s remanding a mother to the nation with a renowned address
Sheilla Atim Gloria will you be happy assuming your mother in her 70’s experience such a tragedy
When does humanity prevail in legal and justice circles?
Good evening Atim Sheilah Gloria, Someone as old as your mother is brought before you in this state and your conscience tells you that she belongs to jail and not in the hospital?
With utmost honesty, Uganda needs real redemption!
Our biggest problem is the lack of solidarity. We only cry in phases. Today it’s teachers, tomorrow it’s doctors, then journalists. We stay silent until the problem reaches our own homes. Until we learn to cry together, we’ll all keep suffering.
My thoughts and prayers are with the NMG staff. I called a few friends at NMG today, and all I can say —It is very tough waking up to no job at all, and a lot of uncertainty surrounding what brings food on the table, but most importantly the future of press freedom as a fundamental bedrock of our democracy.
Our prayer is that you come back safe and alive, for we know you will tell your story eloquently and boldly.
You have never failed to stand for the things you believe in. Your contribution to the democratization of our country, your unrelenting pursuit of the rights of women, and the girl child will not be diminished by the cowardly acts of your detractors.
Your name is indelibly inked in history and our hearts in ways that your abusers can only envy and therefore seek to destroy you. They may disappear you, but never your ideas. Theirs is brute hollow and backward force.
Those who ingratiate themselves with your abusers know in the deep recesses of their thoughts and hearts, too well, that you have done nothing wrong.
FREE DR. MIRIA MATEMBE!
Miria Matembe is a mother!
Miria Matembe is a grand mother!
Miria Matembe is a mentor!
Miria Matembe is an icon!
Miria Matembe is a fighter!
Miria Matembe is a hero!
Miria Matembe is a disciplinarian!
Miria Matembe is our Ssenga!
FREE DR. MIRIA MATEMBE!