Mahloof was charged with obstruction of justice for distributing masks at an opposition protest.
The opposition spokesman was made to apologise for a request to change the judge presiding in his trial on a charge of false reporting to law enforcement.
The Amnesty International prisoner of conscience on Tuesday told the judge presiding over his trial on a "false reporting" tweet to hand down any verdict he...
Independent MP Ahmed Mahloof was released Friday morning after serving 10 months and 24 days in prison on two counts of police obstruction.
Independent MP Ahmed Mahloof has issued several press statements from jail during the past month, expressing concern over the treatment of inmates at the Maafushi jail...
Expressing concern about "the severity of the sentence" handed to the Independent MP, the international organisation of parliaments said it "fails to understand the justification for...
Mahloof's wife claim that the MP's health is deteriorating in jail has prompted calls for his transfer to house imprisonment for medical care.
Mahloof's petition is the fourth from a high-profile Maldivian politician to come before the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention since early 2015. In September, the...
Today's verdict comes a week after the lawmaker was sentenced to four months and 24 days in prison on a separate count of obstructing police duty....
MDP MPs clamoured for the immediate release of their jailed colleague and called for President Yameen's resignation. Speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed adjourned proceedings shortly after the...
MP Ahmed Mahloof and three others were briefly detained Saturday evening. Standing atop a pickup, Mahloof was using a megaphone to invite the public to the...
The Maldives United Opposition, launched in London last month by opposition leaders in exile, had planned to hold the rally Thursday night despite the last-minute withdrawal...
At a meeting last Thursday, senior police officers informed MDP officials that political activity will not be allowed in the streets of the capital, citing complaints...
Riot police also thwarted on Wednesday morning a prayer gathering by opposition supporters outside the Islamic centre in Malé after the communal Eid al-Fitr prayer.
The opposition has renewed calls for Yameen’s arrest, claiming it has new evidence he instructed the central bank to halt an inquiry into the Maldives’ biggest...
Citing insufficient evidence, the Prosecutor General's office has declined to prosecute Independent MP Ahmed Mahloof on a charge of assaulting a police officer during an anti-government...
The Maldivian Democratic Party has strongly condemned the police's "unconstitutional" obstruction of Friday's protest as well as the heavy use of pepper spray against protesters and...
