Authorities in the Maldives have raided the offices of a newspaper and a human rights NGO and cancelled the passports of fugitive opposition figures after an al-Jazeera documentary aired corruption allegations against the country’s president, Abdulla Yameen.
Local journalists involved with the documentary, broadcast by the Qatari news network on Wednesday evening, had already left the country in anticipation of a backlash, amid warnings by senior MPs that contributors risked jail under defamation laws.
Hours after the documentary was posted online on Wednesday, police raided a building in the capital, Malé, housing the Maldivian Independent, a newspaper accused of links to the former president Mohamed Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic party (MDP).
Nasheed was ousted in what supporters say was a coup in 2012 and is now living in exile in Britain, a 13-year jail sentence hanging over him at home.
Also in the seven-floor building were offices belonging to an MDP-linked law firm, a travel agency and a human rights NGO. Full story...
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Local journalists involved with the documentary, broadcast by the Qatari news network on Wednesday evening, had already left the country in anticipation of a backlash, amid warnings by senior MPs that contributors risked jail under defamation laws.
Hours after the documentary was posted online on Wednesday, police raided a building in the capital, Malé, housing the Maldivian Independent, a newspaper accused of links to the former president Mohamed Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic party (MDP).
Nasheed was ousted in what supporters say was a coup in 2012 and is now living in exile in Britain, a 13-year jail sentence hanging over him at home.
Also in the seven-floor building were offices belonging to an MDP-linked law firm, a travel agency and a human rights NGO. Full story...
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