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Continue reading →: Prison Break: Who will resign?
I was watching the two o’clock news on TV Maldives on Friday, and was shocked to hear that, the Minister of State for Home Affairs Ahmed Shafeeg has said that “about four prisoners” who fled Maafushi prison last night have been apprehended by the authorities in a nearby island. Haveeru…
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Continue reading →: Foreseen: The Demise of the Maldives Tourism Industry
Today I sat at a table in a coffee shop with a man who was delighted with the success of their strike to “make things right” on a tourist resort in Maldives. Hce was delighted that they had won. He was delighted that the “culprit” lost and could not do…
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Continue reading →: Child Right’s Law and Juvenile Delinquency: by Dr. Waheed
Dr. Waheed writes: Since 1991, when the Law on the Rights of Children was passed, crimes among children under 18 have skyrocketed. There are reasons to believe that this increase is not a mere coincidence and that the law is at least partially responsible for the rising trend of juvenile…
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Continue reading →: Breaking News: Police Officer Hospitalized
According to a police media report, a police officer has been hospitalized in ADK Hospital in Male’ after being attacked by gangsters and was found “thrown into a lane” around Alikilegefaanu Magu. The report says that the officer’s face has been severely beaten. The Police Officer was in plainclothes according…
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Continue reading →: How the Serbian Canvas Group succeeded in toppling the Maldivian Dictator: by Omidi from Minivan News
Omidi writes: In October 2008, the Maldives held its first multi-party elections, toppling 30-year incumbent Maumoon Abdul Gayoom and replacing him with Mohamed Nasheed, a former political prisoner and according to Dhivehi Rayyithunge Party (DRP) opposition members, rabble-rouser extraordinaire. Indeed, this is how members of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP)…
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Continue reading →: Is Islam the Cause of Paedohpilia in Maldives?
The question has crossed my mind several times – in fact every time there is a report of sexual child abuse in the local media, and the subsequent comments when it is posted on this blog and CAWM group wall on Facebook. The accusation is that it is Islam that…
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Continue reading →: Mind boggling figures…
The Defense Minister and Home Minister and the Police Commissioner gave a joint press conference on Tuesday to brief the public on the ongoing street violence and gang related murders that are terrorizing Male’. Some of the figures that were revealed in the press conference were mind-boggling. The new “Pentagon”…
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Continue reading →: Politics or Homophobia? :by Dr. Waheed
Dr. Abdulla Waheed writes: Pedophilia of any hue, be it heterosexual, homosexual or incestuous, is a heinous crime that must be condemned in the strongest words and punished with the harshest penalties. There is no dearth of any of these varieties of sexual abuse of children in the Maldives. However,…
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Continue reading →: Parliamentarians to get a pension of 20,000 Rf a month
The Maldives Parliament or Rayyithuge Majlis (meaning the People’s Chamber) has deliberated on a revision of the Pension Bill, to give one third of salary to any MP who completes one five year term in the Majlis. Parliamentarians are paid three times the highest paid civil servant and more than…
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Continue reading →: Male' Street Killings: Ongoing Terror Unchecked
Minivan News has reported that an 18 year old boy (Abdulla Farhad, 18) has died “after being assaulted by a group of young men on the south side of Majeedhee Magu”. It also reported that “Farhad’s murder (on the night of 8th March) is the sixth gang-related death since December…
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Continue reading →: The gang rape of a 17-year-old girl on Gaaf Alif Gemanafushi has led to the arrest of four men: by Naish from Minivan News
The gang rape of a 17-year-old girl on Gaaf Alif Gemanafushi has led to the arrest of four men. Police received reports of the girl’s disappearance on Wednesday night and conducted joint search activities with islanders. She was found coming out of the woods near her house at 9.45pm the…
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Continue reading →: Police Arrest two men who Sexually abuse several Young Boys: Haveeru News Report
Police on Thursday said that they had arrested two people who had been sexually abusing a large number of young boys. The two men are Moosa Ismail, 40, and Ahmed Ibrahim, 33 and Police said that the two had been arrested in two separate cases. Last month Police had captured…
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Continue reading →: Disaster Management Centre for Male'
Male’ is home to over one third of the population of the country and a great majority of over 78,000 expatriates who live and work in the Maldives. This morning a shocking experience took the whole island by surprise. Male’ did not have any electricity right throughout the island for…
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Continue reading →: One in Five girls is Sexually abused: by Omidi from Minivan News
One in five schoolgirls has been sexually abused at least once in her lifetime, according to the country’s first large-scale study on physical and emotional punishment, and sexual abuse of children. The study asked 1,911 students in grade eight or above a series of questions on adult behaviour towards them,…
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Continue reading →: HRCM describes paedophile case as "appalling": by Omidi from Minivan News
The Human Rights Commission Maldives (HRCM) has condemned the alleged sexual abuse of more than 35 underaged boys by a paedophile, arrested on 13 February. The commission described the abuse by Hussain Fazeel, 38, as “appalling” and has called for an immediate investigation of this case. Fazeel was arrested after…
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Continue reading →: The Black Market for US Dollars…
This is the second call I had today. Just now it was from an expatriate project manager that I know who is from a neighbouring country. He said that he has a 100,000 US Dollars that he can sell and was looking for a willing buyer. He also told me…
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Continue reading →: Unpunished Paedophiles Roam Free: by Shazra from Minivan News
A paedophile who had abused 35 children was arrested in January this year – when the news became public last week it sent shockwaves through the Maldives. In a country where one in every six women has been abused before the age of 15, it is rare to find a…
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Continue reading →: Paedophile Arrested in Male’
A man who had long term homosexual relations with 35 underage persons has been arrested. Addressing the media at Thursday’s press conference, Inspector Ismail Athif of the serious and organized crime unit, said Hussein Fazeel, 38, of Veyruge of K.Viliingili , was arrested on the 11th of January this year,…
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Continue reading →: He Said I Said…
I said: If this Majlis fails to deliver on what is required of it and uphold the promising new August Constitution, the people should come out and lock the House and dissolve it. People who are paid beyond our means cannot be left to hijack the People.January 15, 2009 5:33:00…
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