A digest of news and opinion from the Maldives.
Basic questions about an abducted Maldives Independent journalist have not been answered by the state including whether he is still alive, a court heard Thursday. Three suspects have been charged in connection with the kidnapping of Ahmed Rilwan, who went missing three years ago. Two of them, Aalif Rauf and Mohamed Nooradheen, are not in […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 7th November 2017. The following is a loose translation: The administration of President Abdulla Yameen is way ahead when it comes to restricting freedom and rights. The rights that the constitution had allowed broadly had now been hindered and narrowed down by overriding them with […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 30th September 2017. The following is a loose translation: Is Malé safe anymore? Who is there to guarantee the safe return from a visit to a corner shop without getting stabbed in the throat or chest? In the capital city Malé, which has become a […]
Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan. He went missing on August 8, 2014. A suspect who is charged with terrorism over the abduction of Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan has been declared dead by his family, according to the judge presiding over the case. Mohamed Suaid, of Hulhudhoo ward in Addu City, is one of three […]
Posters put up by family and friends of missing journalist Ahmed Rilwan. PHOTO/MALDIVES INDEPENDENT The whereabouts of one of the suspects charged with terrorism over the abduction of Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan are unknown, Mihaaru has found out. Three years after the journalist was forcibly disappeared, the Prosecutor General (PG)’s Office has forwarded terrorism […]
The original Dhivehi article was published on Avas.mv website on 12th August 2017. The following is a loose translation: – Growing number of young delinquents falling prey to extremist religious ideology – Some sheiks behind Islamic radicalization – The extremist’s atrocities reached to serious levels With claims of heresy against Prophet Muhammad’s Sunnah, are there […]
by Azra Naseem In the early hours of the morning on 8 August 2014, journalist and blogger Ahmed Rilwan (28), was captured on CCTV boarding a ferry from Male’ to Hulhumale’. It is the last known and verifiable movements of Rilwan who, it has been widely reported, was abducted later that morning from his apartment in […]