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UN Judge and Former Columbia University Fellow Convicted of Modern Slavery
The Gateway Pundit ^ | March 24, 2026 | Antonio Graceffo

Posted on 03/24/2026 9:23:46 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin

Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan lawyer who served as a High Court Judge in Uganda beginning in 2013 and as a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the successor body to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since May 2023, was convicted on 13 March 2025 at Oxford Crown Court on four counts: conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, arranging travel with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labor, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.

She was also a fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights in 2017. She was studying for a doctorate in law at Oxford University at the time of the offences.

Mugambe had met the victim in Uganda when the victim was 19 years old and employed her there as a nanny and maid.

When Mugambe relocated to the UK on a Tier 4 student visa, a category that did not permit her to sponsor a worker, she arranged to bring the victim to continue in that role.

Because she lacked the legal right to sponsor a visa, she conspired with John Leonard Mugerwa, then Deputy High Commissioner of Uganda to the UK, who agreed to sponsor the victim’s entry under a diplomatic servants scheme.

False employment contracts and a false Certificate of Sponsorship were created stating the victim would work as a paid housekeeper at the Ugandan diplomatic residence.

The intention from the outset was that the victim would instead live and work unpaid at Mugambe’s private home.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
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While modern "liberals" make it a point of emphasis that slavery was about racism, the historical record shows that many "people of color" supported and profited from slavery as an institution and a business. African tribes sold their own people into slavery, and many freed slaves of African descent found it profitable to own slaves. Because of slavery, an African-American man could buy himself a wife, who would remain his property. It was indeed a "curious institution" as it was then known to be, and called that as a more polite term for the ownership and sale of human souls. The truth is that we still have Africans engaged in slavery, and they aren't "racist" white folks.
1 posted on 03/24/2026 9:23:46 AM PDT by Dr. Franklin
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To: Dr. Franklin

Butt, butt, butt.......u.n.! 🖕


2 posted on 03/24/2026 9:24:31 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Madmani is from Uganda. Uh, oh.


3 posted on 03/24/2026 9:26:49 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Dr. Franklin

“Judges” suck.


4 posted on 03/24/2026 9:27:47 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Governor Prickster Welcomes you to "The Wrong Place At the Wrong Time". Hope you brought bullets.)
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To: Dr. Franklin

Remember, these are the people who “would be our betters.”

US out of the UN, UN out of the US, a pox on all global elite!


5 posted on 03/24/2026 9:28:55 AM PDT by Skwor
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To: Dr. Franklin
Lydia Mugambe, a Ugandan lawyer who served as a High Court Judge in Uganda beginning in 2013 and as a Judge of the UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), the successor body to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, since May 2023, was convicted on 13 March 2025 at Oxford Crown Court on four counts: conspiracy to facilitate a breach of UK immigration law, arranging travel with a view to exploitation, requiring a person to perform forced or compulsory labor, and conspiracy to intimidate a witness.

Geez, the titles. And we the US are footing the bills for these kangaroo courts.

6 posted on 03/24/2026 9:37:49 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Ok In anyq war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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To: Dr. Franklin

There should be no surprise.

Slavery was ended, to the extent that it can be ended, by Western Civilization.

People who reject Western Civilization should be fully expected to restart the slave trade and even maintain slaves today.


7 posted on 03/24/2026 9:39:33 AM PDT by Maelstrom (To prevent misinterpretation or abuse of the Constitution:The Bill of Rights limits government power)
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To: Maelstrom

“People who reject Western Civilization should be fully expected to restart the slave trade and even maintain slaves today.”

Like Democrats, family courts and judges?

Freehold bondage and indentured servitude are alive and well.


8 posted on 03/24/2026 9:53:28 AM PDT by Justa (Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people....)
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To: Justa

Sounds like Democrats and the TSA, you will work, but not get paid.


9 posted on 03/24/2026 10:01:22 AM PDT by E.Allen
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To: Maelstrom
Slavery was ended, to the extent that it can be ended, by Western Civilization.

While every country has laws on the books banning slavery, google "Are there more slaves than ever before?" and prepare to be depressed.

10 posted on 03/24/2026 10:18:21 AM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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To: Dr. Franklin

Islam controlled much of the slave trade when they conquered Christian villages and would sell them into slavery. That is why most of the slaves were Christian.


11 posted on 03/24/2026 10:42:44 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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To: Maelstrom

slavery was finally abolished in Oman by sultan Qaboos in 1970!
It was more-less forced on him by the British!
His father Said has a slave concubine (at least one).

Qaboos did not care about slave concubines, he liked young European men!


12 posted on 03/24/2026 10:55:38 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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Oh, slavery was huge in Turkey and Iran, among others.

The harems were full of European slave girls. It was actually illegal to enslave muslims, so harem could only be filled by slave Christians.
Turkish sultans were more-less of European (French, Ruthenian, Greek) descent.

The Turkish and Persian armies were based on slave soldiers.
These were Christian kids either kidnapped or actually taken in lieu of tax from Christian families, indoctrinated and trained to fight.

But the servants in harems were always slave black eunuchs.
They could not play with the harem ladies and if they did, the may be some black kid born.

Famous Russian poet Pushkin was descendent of “Peter the Great Arab”, a black slave boy donated by Turkish sultan to Peter the Great! Peter like him so much that not only freed him, but made him a noble.


13 posted on 03/24/2026 11:08:09 AM PDT by AZJeep (sane )
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Oh, slavery was huge in Turkey and Iran, among others. The harems were full of European slave girls. It was actually illegal to enslave muslims, so harem could only be filled by slave Christians.

It's why the leaders of these nations always look so white. Don't believe me; look online for yourself. The only person of color I recall was Anwar Sadat, and he was too reasonable for the Islamist extremists to tolerate, so they assassinated him.

14 posted on 03/24/2026 11:32:44 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens. --DJT)
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To: AZJeep

Over 150 countries today either tolerate or legalize slavery but only hear about America 150 years ago as the villain.


15 posted on 03/24/2026 12:51:12 PM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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