Home Minister Umar Naseer said the high-profile prisoners were transferred while their special protection unit in 'Asseyri' jail undergoes maintenance. But the main opposition party contends...
The ruling party-dominated parliament has approved six of President Abdulla Yameen's nominees to the Maldives Broadcasting Commission, including the regulator's incumbent president and two campaign workers....
US Ambassador to the Maldives Atul Keshap met this morning with some of the 18 journalists arrested Sunday from a sit-in protest outside the president's office...
Home Minister Umar Naseer says the government is planning to grant police the authority to prosecute petty crimes in a bid to speed up long-pending criminal...
The police have violently cracked down on a peaceful sit-down protest staged by journalists outside the president's office this morning, arresting more than 15 reporters from...
The home ministry has ordered former Defence Minister Mohamed Nazim to cut short a medical trip to Singapore and return to the Maldives to serve the...
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...
Assistant Secretary of State Nisha Biswal said the Maldives has seen "a steady weakening of its fragile democracy and an erosion of the rule of law"...
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...
Opposition MPs have slammed a bill that proposes stripping privileges for former presidents convicted of criminal offences as the latest attack on dissent by the ruling...
A corruption-themed television drama produced by the Anti-Corruption Commission has stirred controversy with the Maldives Customs Service and a government-run hospital complaining of negative portrayals.
Several inmates and prison guards at the Malé jail sustained injuries Sunday night after “a random cell check” escalated into a violent confrontation. “The inmates aggressively...
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...
The Malaysian government is also considering selling refined oil products to the Maldives from the state-owned Petronas company and extending on-arrival visas for Maldivians to 90...
An 11-point guideline imposed by the Supreme Court on the state human rights watchdog has not hampered its functioning, Shifaq Mufeed, vice president of the Human...
Maldivian journalists have urged the government to reconsider a bill criminalising defamation, expressing grave concern over proposed restrictions on freedom of expression and speech.
The president's spokesperson said the names of all 23 individuals who applied to the president's office will be forwarded for parliamentary approval today to fill six...
