Thread by @kapatidPP

A day before Reina Mae Nasino's filing of a motion with a Manila court, KAPATID reiterates there is no reason for the court to deny Reina Mae her right to be at the wake of River, her 3-month old daughter. #JusticeForBabyRiver #FreeReinaMaeNasino #FreePoliticalPrisonersPH

“The court should swiftly grant the grieving mother's appeal to visit her dead child and to be present until her baby is brought to her final resting place. For Reina Mae who barely had the chance to spend a...

...lot of time with her child, nothing will be more tragic than losing what could be her last chance to stay with her firstborn one last time,” said Fides Lim, KAPATID spokesperson.

Tomorrow October 12 at 10 a.m., Reina Mae's counsels from NUPL will physically file a manifestation with Manila executive judge Virgilio Macaraig, who also heads Manila RTC Branch 37, to follow through the “Very Urgent Motion for Furlough” that was filed last Friday, October 9.

Reina Mae lost her child without seeing her alive for the last time as the motion is still pending in court.

Knowing how the government prosecutors opposed the young mother's several motions prior to her child's admission at a hospital for exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms, KAPATID said they...

...see “no reason why the government prosecutors should even think of opposing the motion this time unless they want to compound the anguish of a mother whom they put in jail on trumped-up charges of planted firearms.”

“We earnestly ask the court to give Reina Mae this last chance to see her child. She's already been deprived of a lot of things – liberty when she fell victim to the government's crackdown on activists; the chance of giving birth without worrying for her safety and of her...

...child when she spent most of her pregnancy inside prison and at a time of a pandemic; the chance to take care of her baby when she got separated from her after one month. Now that River has died, Reina Mae lost a lifetime to witness her grow up,” Fides said.

“Please, grant the motion and let a mother grieve properly at her baby’s side. The smallest coffin is the heaviest and the sorrow it brings, the most painful,” Fides appealed.

“We also press for action on Reina Mae’s humanitarian release, which we filed way back April 8 in the Supreme Court. This government and the courts, including the Supreme Court, have already created too much sorrow for a mother and child. Tama na,” she said.