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Vandalism

How A Broken Windscreen Shows How Unsafe Maldives Is- Especially for Women

By Maldives Times October 28, 2020 2 min read

Not once, not twice. For the fifth time, the taxi driven by the Male’s only female taxi driver Aminath Waheed has been damaged while it was parked in the vicinity of the Drug Court. This has led to several questions by the public, for which an answer is needed from the Maldives Police Service. How […]

Expatriate Workers Confront Police Officers with Violence

By Maldives Times July 14, 2020 2 min read

A group of expatriate workers confronted police officers with violence and damaged police property when the police attended to a protest in Hulhumale’ on 13th July 2020. The protesters threw bricks towards the police officers who attended the scene and injured several police officers. When the Maldives Police Service received information of this, a team […]