Social Media has gone ablaze with #FreeSheenah hashtag after Police in Kampala arresting socialite Sheena Bageine (@sheena_sheenzy) on orders of Carlton Douglas Kasirye on charges of cyber bullying, cyber harassment and defamation after exposing top city rapists.
Sheena Bageine was picked up on Thursday evening and taken to the Kampala Central Police Station where she is currently being held because of her Twitter posts on a thread she made at the start of 2020 with a list of men who she claimed were rapists.
It started with former Big Brother Africa housemate, Radio Presenter and TV star Denzel Mwiyeretsi who was accused of drugging female workmates and other girls before having forced sex with them.
Bageine was then served a letter of intention to sue with demands which included a compensation fee of UGX 2,000,000,000, a public apology among others.
“We demand that you remove from publication and the defamatory threads complained of to prevent further damage to our client, produce an apology and declaration that the allegations were false, provide details of recipients of advice or comments made of this nature and make proposals for payment to us of damages of UGX 2,000,000,000,” Mr. Kasirye wrote to Ms. Bageine on Monday January 13th.
The unapologetic Bageine would respond a day later advising Mr. Kasirye to proceed to court, citing that she was ready to defend herself.
“The contents and demands contained in your letter are noted. You may proceed to act at your convenience,” Bageine’s lawyers of Pace advocates wrote in a letter dated January 14th.
Sheebah Bageine
37 days later, Ms. Bageine has been arrested and a hashtag #FreeSheena is currently trending on twitter as activists, friends and family members demand the release of the activist.
Activist Rosebell Kagumire argues that young Ugandan women are using these platforms to face society in ways it hasn’t seen.
To her, institutions like police are complicit, from intimidation of rape victims to now arrests because the rapists have the system and this fight to free women is enormous.
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