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The road to justice is paved with answers to Rilwan’s abduction

The road to justice is paved with answers to Rilwan’s abduction

By Maldives Times 6 min read

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 […]

Maumoon’s Monsters

Maumoon’s Monsters

By Maldives Times 7 min read

by Azra Naseem The ruling party, PPM, has split into two. One (so-called) Faction, is led by Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, the party’s founder, leader, and muse. The second is led by Yameen Abdul Gayoom, the younger brother anointed and hoisted onto the throne by the elder, now a turncoat publicly, gleefully, stabbing his octogenarian sibling in […]