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Category: Press

March 9, 2023

Joint Press Release: Stop the use of Conductive Energy Devices (Tasers) by the Maldives Police Service.

9 March 2023 The undersigned organizations condemn the lack of transparency and arbitrary nature of the decision of the Maldives Police Service to begin using Conductive Energy Devices (CEDs), namely the Taser 7, from 26 February 2023. We call on the Minister of Home Affairs and the Commissioner of Police to immediately stop its use…

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January 11, 2023January 14, 2023

Joint Press Release: Maldives – Protect the rights to expression, peaceful assembly and association, and halt the obstruction of protests.

10 January 2023: We, the undersigned organisations, strongly condemn the continuedobstruction of peaceful protests, and the unjustified arrest of peaceful protestors and mediapersonnel by the Maldives Police Service during the series of protests that have taken place as aresponse to the sentencing of former President Abdulla Yameen. The freedoms of right to expression, peaceful assembly…

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December 28, 2022

Press Release (Dhiv) – The enforced disappearance of journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah on 8 August 2014: Regarding information provided by the Presidential Commission on Deaths and Disappearances via press conference on 15 December 2022.

Rilwan and Yameen Foundation, ADM 28 December 2022

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December 28, 2022December 28, 2022

Press Release (ENG) – The enforced disappearance of journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah on 8 August 2014: Regarding information provided by the Presidential Commission on Deaths and Disappearances via press conference on 15 December 2022.

Rilwan and Yameen Foundation, ADM 28 December 2022 We thank the Commission on Deaths and Disappearances for sharing further information about the investigation into the enforced disappearance of journalist and blogger Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah in August 2014. We appreciate that the Commission has revealed new information surrounding the disappearance and eventual fate of Rilwan, and…

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September 26, 2022

Press Release – Stop delaying minimum wage for migrant workers, sign the Convention on the Rights of Migrant Workers and their Families (Eng)

26 September 2022 We condemn in the strongest terms, the government’s decision to indefinitely postpone the minimum wage for migrant workers in the Maldives. Setting a minimum wage is one of the key election pledges of President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih. We call upon the government to uphold the Maldives Constitution and adhere to the state’s…

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August 19, 2022

Joint Press Statement: Concerns about the decision of the Employment Tribunal in the case of Dr Iyaz Abdul Latheef (Eng)

18 August 2022

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August 19, 2022August 19, 2022

Joint Press Statement: Concerns about the decision of the Employment Tribunal in the case of Dr Iyaz Abdul Latheef (Dhiv)

18 August 2022

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August 7, 2022

Press Release – Eight years without justice: the enforced disappearance of Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah (Dhiv)

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August 7, 2022August 7, 2022

Press Release – Eight years without justice: the enforced disappearance of Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah (Eng)

8 August 2022 Today marks eight years since Ahmed Rilwan Abdullah (28), a journalist and popular blogger of http://moyameehaa.blogspot.com/ was abducted at knifepoint and disappeared. It is believed that he was attacked by violent extremists who alleged that he was an offender against Islam. In addition to other socio-political issues, Rilwan wrote extensively about violent…

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April 7, 2022

Press Release: Threats and intimidation against Right to Information practitioner Aimon Latheef by an employee at the Male’ City Council (Dhiv)

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