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Island President Archives - Dhivehi Sitee
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Life in Times of Radicalisation and Regression: Maldives. May 17, 2015. 48: 24 In and Out of Prison. After 18 months of such inhumane treatment, on 8 April 1992, about a month before his 25. By then he had spent another birthday, the third in a row, in jail. He was suffering from severe back pain, the result of police beatings in custody. He was bleeding internally, the result of food laced with crushed glass he had been forced to eat. He had just turned 26. Journalism is a crime. In 1996 Nasheed publish...
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Long Reads Archives - Dhivehi Sitee
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Life in Times of Radicalisation and Regression: Maldives. August 9, 2016. Maldives ‘defamation law’ to curtail freedom of expression. The ‘People’s’ Majlis is about to kill the people’s right to freedom of expression. Very few of the MPs who will pass the law have any knowledge of, or the brain power to comprehend, the legal minefield that is the offence of defamation, and the tightrope between the right to freedom of expression and the right to a good name that it requires legislators to walk. An opinio...
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Parliament Archives - Dhivehi Sitee
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Life in Times of Radicalisation and Regression: Maldives. August 9, 2016. Maldives ‘defamation law’ to curtail freedom of expression. The ‘People’s’ Majlis is about to kill the people’s right to freedom of expression. Very few of the MPs who will pass the law have any knowledge of, or the brain power to comprehend, the legal minefield that is the offence of defamation, and the tightrope between the right to freedom of expression and the right to a good name that it requires legislators to walk. An opinio...
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Mohamed Nasheed Archives - Dhivehi Sitee
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Life in Times of Radicalisation and Regression: Maldives. May 17, 2015. 48: 24 In and Out of Prison. After 18 months of such inhumane treatment, on 8 April 1992, about a month before his 25. By then he had spent another birthday, the third in a row, in jail. He was suffering from severe back pain, the result of police beatings in custody. He was bleeding internally, the result of food laced with crushed glass he had been forced to eat. He had just turned 26. Journalism is a crime. In 1996 Nasheed publish...
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democracy Archives - Dhivehi Sitee
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Life in Times of Radicalisation and Regression: Maldives. March 21, 2016. CoNI and the Coup III: The Legacy. If there is a particular event which can be pointed to as the beginning of the end of Maldives’ peaceful transition to democracy, the acceptance of the 2012 CONI report. As a way forward can be described as such. This document, supported and endorsed by the international community. The Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma, said, admiring the CoNI findings. Of the many problems with CoNI,...
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authoritarian reversal Archives - Dhivehi Sitee
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Life in Times of Radicalisation and Regression: Maldives. March 21, 2016. CoNI and the Coup III: The Legacy. If there is a particular event which can be pointed to as the beginning of the end of Maldives’ peaceful transition to democracy, the acceptance of the 2012 CONI report. As a way forward can be described as such. This document, supported and endorsed by the international community. The Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma, said, admiring the CoNI findings. Of the many problems with CoNI,...
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Breaking Panic: Maldives Police to train Scotland Yard : The Daily Panic
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Society & Beliefs. Features & Analysis. Breaking Panic: Maldives Police to train Scotland Yard. Filed in Breaking Panic. By The Daily Panic. On October 20, 2014. Bull; 1 Comment. BREAKING PANIC: The Daily Panic. Brings you the absolute latest breaking news from this week. And other weeks. Slavery Industry Gets Much Needed Boost. Maldives Immigration Department took firm steps today to alleviate the misery of the nation’s long suffering slave traders. The procedure is simple, explained the immigration dep...
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The Rilwan Story : The Daily Panic
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Society & Beliefs. Features & Analysis. Filed in Features and Analysis. On February 9, 2015. Bull; 13 Comments. I remember the exact moment when I first saw Ahmed Rilwan. It was late 2009, and I had just arrived in the Maldives. Some bloggers had gotten together to sort of welcome me and get introduced. We were sitting in a sea-side café at night, when he walked in with two other well known bloggers. Looking back, I’m reminded of the great Jalaluddin Rumi’s teacher who once prophesied to him:. He shoved ...
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