A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Mohamed Nimal, formerly the managing director of MRDC. FILE PHOTO/MIHAARU The Prosecutor General’s Office informed the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Wednesday, to take back the charges against Mohamed Nimal, the former managing director of the state-run utility firm Fenaka Corporation, and three others for the illegal purchase of US Dollars to the corporation. Fenaka had […]
Detained MP Ahmed Faris Maumoon has submitted disciplinary complaints regarding five Supreme Court judges to the Judicial Service Commission, Mihaaru has reported. The complaint is about the judges’ failure to create regulations that, under the Criminal Procedures Act, are stipulated to be made within an allocated time period, said Maumoon Hameed from Faris’s legal team. […]
Dhiggaru MP Faris Maumoon arrives at Male from Maafushi Prison to attend a court hearing. PHOTO: HUSSAIN WAHEED/MIHAARU The lawyers of Dhiggaru MP Faris Maumoon have decided to file a case against his current incarceration at the United Nations’ Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. The son of former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, Faris was arrested […]
Justice Building in the capital Male, which houses the Civil Court. MIHAARU FILE PHOTO The Civil Court has revealed that more than half of the cases it revealed in 2017 were closed at its Dispute Resolution Division without proceeding to trials. According to the statistics for the previous year, the Dispute Resolution Division closed 1,277 […]
The Elections Commission has not explained the delay in holding by-elections for 12 constituencies that have lacked parliamentary representation for months. The affected constituencies are those where lawmakers were stripped of their seats after being expelled from the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM). The EC announced last August there would be by-elections for the […]
The Maldives is ready to carry out executions, local media has reported a government minister as saying, ending a six-decade moratorium on capital punishment. Home Minister Azleen Ahmed told Raajje TV that work has been completed on building a place to carry out the death penalty and that executions will resume as soon as legal […]
Authorities must investigate the “defamatory acts and incitement to violence” against a human rights defender who tweeted about Islam. Shahindha Ismail has become the focus of criticism, threats and even a police probe for saying that Allah allowed for other faiths after President Abdulla Yameen said he would only permit Islam to be practiced in […]
The criminal court on Wednesday ordered the return of large amounts of alcohol seized from a tourist liveaboard by the police in a raid last week. The verdict came after the owner of the liveaboard lodged a case in court claiming the alcohol was seized in violation of the criminal procedures act. In an operation […]
The Local Government Authority (LGA) has issued an exception that allows local councillors to meet foreign organisations involved in government partnerships, after initially banning all contact between foreign diplomats and councils. The LGA explained the exception in a letter sent to city, atoll and island councils on Wednesday. Citing the home ministry, the LGA said […]