{"id":371,"date":"2024-04-23T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-23T03:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/?p=371"},"modified":"2024-04-23T06:35:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-23T06:35:07","slug":"press-release-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/?p=371","title":{"rendered":"Press Release: Yameen Rasheed\u2019s murder: Family left clueless as presidential commission wraps up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240423_YR_7yrsF-2.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Press Release.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-c61742db-f56d-44ae-9b90-557f121dfcd4\" href=\"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240423_YR_7yrsF-2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Press Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240423_YR_7yrsF-2.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-c61742db-f56d-44ae-9b90-557f121dfcd4\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:20px\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><strong>Yameen Rasheed\u2019s murder: Family left clueless as presidential commission wraps up<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>23 April 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As we mark seven devastating years to the ruthless murder of young blogger and human rights defender Yameen Rasheed (1988 \u2013 2017), the Presidential Commission on Deaths and Disappearances (DDCOM) formed by former president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih will wrap up its work on 31 May 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The DDCOM has so far been unsuccessful in indicting anyone on suspicion of Yameen Rasheed\u2019s murder or commissioning the crime. Moreover, whether the DDCOM has successfully indicted any suspects on any of the 27 cases mandated for investigation by the commission in 2018 is unknown. Findings of the investigations have not been disclosed to families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>\u201cI firmly believe we have the right to receive information about our brother\u2019s murder. The DDCOM has a moral and legal duty to provide us with a report of their findings, even if they could not bring Yameen any justice. We are disappointed that the DDCOM has failed to achieve their goals. We had high hopes when President Solih promised us justice from the podiums of his campaign trail. We have&nbsp;been left&nbsp;in the dark.,\u201d<\/em>&nbsp;said Aishath Rasheed, Yameen Rasheed\u2019s sister and the ADM\u2019s Chairperson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>We call on the DDCOM to disclose vital information about each of the cases they were assigned and remind the commission <\/strong><strong>of international obligations of the Maldives to the right to freedom of information and transparency.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yameen Rasheed will be remembered for the kind, generous and brilliant writer he was. On this day marking seven years since he was brutally taken away from us, we wish to memorialise and remember his blog and legacy &#8211; The Daily Panic. His words brought us the truth and made it bearable through his witty and sharp prose we all admire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ENDS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yameen Rasheed\u2019s murder: Family left clueless as presidential commission wraps up 23 April 2024 As we mark seven devastating years to the ruthless murder of young blogger and human rights defender Yameen Rasheed (1988 \u2013 2017), the Presidential Commission on Deaths and Disappearances (DDCOM) formed by former president Ibrahim Mohamed Solih will wrap up its&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=371"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":377,"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371\/revisions\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/democracymaldives.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}