The family of The Maldives Independent’s journalist, Ahmed Rilwan, has alleged state-involvement in his abduction and disappearance nearly two years ago.
Fiyaz was accused of assaulting a police officer while reporting on the military's attempts to defuse a bomb on November 2 last year, but he was...
A shop and staff barracks burnt down late last night at the high-security prison on the island of Maafushi in Kaafu atoll.
Scores of police officers have blocked a labour day march organized by Maldivian civil society organisations, despite an appeal by the human rights watchdog to allow...
The immigration depart has claimed that MP Ahmed Nazim's passport is in its possession despite reports of the former ruling party lawmaker fleeing from Singapore to...
Adam Zareer, a videographer at the privately-owned station, was served summons yesterday to appear for a first hearing next Sunday. He is accused of obstructing police...
The arrest of the 28-year-old is the first made in Malé over the killing of the murder of Maldivian national and notorious gangster Hussain Razeen ‘Rabarey'...
The Maldives Broadcasting Commission has expressed concern over charges filed against three journalists from the opposition-aligned Raajje TV, but stopped short of condemning the unprecedented criminal...
Some 183 Maldivian journalists have signed a historic petition urging the authorities to tackle threats to press freedom, including the withdrawal of a bill criminalising defamation...
The unprecedented prosecution of three journalists comes amidst a campaign launched by the Maldivian media against a government crackdown on press freedom in the country.
A judge detained over a “forged” warrant to arrest President Abdulla Yameen in connection with the Maldives’ biggest corruption scandal pleaded not guilty to a corruption...
Hamid's lawyer Husnu Suood told The Maldives Independent that the four surveillance cameras in the cell and one in the cell toilet represents a "serious human...
The criminal court blocked reporters from observing proceedings in a graft trial against former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb and his associates today citing a lack of...
While international human rights and press freedom organisations have condemned the mass arrests as symptomatic of declining press freedom in the Maldives, the Human Rights Commission...
The 13 women and one man were sentenced to three months in jail, suspended for three years, on a charge of disobeying orders by protesting at...
Former Colonel Ahmed Fayaz 'Papa,' who is accused of ordering two explosives experts to remove evidence from the Finifenma speedboat immediately after the mysterious explosion, told...
Azima Shukoor's visit comes amidst a lobbying effort by the government to avoid action by the Commonwealth over widely condemned human rights abuses, including the imprisonment...
