The First Wave Move­ment has con­demned the crim­i­nal charges laid against Ka­ia Sealy, de­scrib­ing the pros­e­cu­tion as “a trav­es­ty of jus­tice” and call­ing for the im­me­di­ate with­draw­al of the charges.

In a state­ment, the or­gan­i­sa­tion’s founder and leader, Umar Ab­dul­lah, re­ject­ed le­gal ar­gu­ments made in a re­cent ar­ti­cle dis­cussing the case, say­ing the rea­son­ing ad­vanced was “legal­ly un­sound, fac­tu­al­ly in­con­sis­tent and dan­ger­ous­ly mis­lead­ing to the pub­lic.”

The move­ment ar­gued that at­tempts to hold Sealy re­spon­si­ble for the death of Sama­roo were based on a “dis­tor­tion of crim­i­nal li­a­bil­i­ty.”