Judge Haleem ordered Haveeru's founder, management and staff not to "commit any act that could impair Haveeru's archive, property, news, information, photo, video, money, all its...
Vice Admiral Tiang Zhong met with Defence Minister Adam Shareef Umar, Chief of Defence Forces Major General Ahmed Shiyam and senior military officers to discuss boosting...
Independent MP Ahmed Mahloof pleaded not guilty today to a charge of obstructing police officers during a protest in March last year, denouncing the trial as...
Two suspects arrested earlier this month in connection with the abduction of The Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan was transferred to house arrest on Friday.
A private TV channel has leaked an audio clip of a phone conversation between Deputy Commissioner of Prisons and an unidentified man, discussing the unlawful release...
According to Sri Lankan media, the pair, aged-28 and 30, respectively, were arrested from a hotel in Colombo's Bambalapitiya district in the late night hours of...
The battle for the Maldives' oldest newspaper, Haveeru Daily, took a new twist on Thursday, with the paper's new shareholders requesting a stay order to prevent...
“We would urge the administration to consider all of the options at its disposal, which might be effective in influencing the government’s behavior,” Senators McCain and...
The Maldives remains "very hostile for independent and opposition media" since the February 2012 "coup d’état," reads the Reporters Without Borders' 2016 press freedom index entry...
Home Minister Umar Naseer said in a tweet this morning that he has asked the Maldives Correctional Services' medical board to review a decision to revoke...
The landmark Criminal Procedure Act, comprising of 30 chapters, codifies in detail the rules to investigate, prosecute and pass judgment on suspected criminal offenders. The legislation...
The National Disaster Management Centre is providing temporary shelter to some 72 individuals displaced by a massive fire that broke out Monday evening at the Coastline Hardware...
Commissioner of Prisons Mohamed Husham told the press this afternoon that the 30-day extension was revoked after Nasheed's lawyers denied President Abdulla Yameen's claim that the opposition...
If the retired colonel fails to return in the next two days, the Maldives Correctional Services will "begin work to bring him back," Superintendent of Prisons...
Tamrat Samuel, a senior advisor to the UN's department of political affairs, is seeking to lay the groundwork "for substantive political party dialogue in the interest...
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 police have returned seven out of 33 pieces of broadcasting equipment confiscated from Sangu TV during a raid of the privately-owned station's offices in Malé...