The court threatened to proceed with the trial in absentia but the hearing was cancelled after neither Gasim nor his legal counsel showed up.
“We cannot accept arson and the murder of our youth aimed at disrupting peace in the greed for power @maumoonagayoom,” the minister tweeted Monday after a...
Saud is the fourth lawmaker to face criminal prosecution since the four-party opposition coalition secured a majority in the parliament to impeach Speaker Abdulla Maseeh Mohamed.
Following heavy-handed police crackdowns on opposition gatherings during the past week, opposition lawmakers and supporters meanwhile began sharing photos on social media of individual police officers...
Nadheem Abdul Rahman was stabbed in the head Thursday evening by a group of masked men while he was inside the Terminal Café in the Galolhu...
A young man was stabbed in the back near the Supreme Court around 1:45 pm and two others were stabbed near the AMDC clinic about half...
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom attended Sunday morning his son MP Faris Maumoon's identity fraud trial as opposition lawmakers gathered outside the criminal court in solidarity...
Mohamed Badeeu, from the Henveiru Landhooge in the capital, was taken to IGMH on Monday afternoon and passed away around 3:30am, according to the Maldives Correctional...
Jumhooree Party leader Gasim Ibrahim has been barred from travelling overseas after he was hospitalised Sunday afternoon shortly before the first hearing of a fresh trial...
MP Ahmed Rasheed publicly confessed Tuesday to signing a no-confidence motion against the speaker of parliament despite previously alleging that his signature was forged.
Nine MPs have left the Progressive Party of Maldives after the Attorney General sought the anti-defection ruling, dramatically shifting the balance of power in the 85-member...
The police have confiscated the phones of former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb's lawyers and placed them under investigation for refusing to disclose the source of information...
Adeeb's lawyer Mahfooz Saeed wrote to Police Commissioner Ahmed Areef on Sunday claiming to have learned of "a plot to assassinate my client former Vice President...
Adeeb told the Supreme Court that the pistol found in Nazim's bedroom did not belong to the then-defence minister, assuring the chief justice "as someone who...
The managing director of the State Electricity Company was appointed state minister of environment and energy and replaced by President's Office Minister Ahmed Zuhoor.
The home ministry claimed the lawmaker was barred from leaving the Maldives because he might stay overseas to impede an ongoing investigation.
Zaidul Ameen is accused of attempting to sell a secretly recorded conversation with Supreme Court Justice Ali Hameed Mohamed.
