Two employees of the state-owned utility company were arrested Sunday over a fire that destroyed a southern island’s powerhouse and left thousands without electricity and water...
The criminal court reprimanded today two prominent lawyers who criticised the recent jailing of religious conservative Adhaalath Party President Sheikh Imran Abdulla on a terrorism charge.
The ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives has condemned accusations that it was anti-Islamic by scholars of the religious conservative Adhaalath Party in a well-attended rally...
The People’s Majlis will reconvene tomorrow after a week-long pause with ruling party MPs set to propose amendments to the new anti-terror law.
Senior UN political official Miroslav Jenča has assured President Abdulla Yameen of UN assistance for all-party talks announced amidst continuing international concern over human rights in...
Top footballer Assad ‘Adubarey’ Ali was arrested Sunday over allegations of harassment by controversial criminal court Judge Abdul Bari Yoosuf, who had said a man had...
Abdul Bari Yoosuf, a controversial judge involved in the jailing of four high-profile opposition politicians, has requested a criminal inquiry against a man who allegedly threatened...
Three British MPs who defended President Abdulla Yameen’s regime against calls for sanctions during a government-sponsored visit to the Maldives have been accused of “deliberate manipulation...
Omnia Strategy, a legal consultancy firm chaired by Cherie Blair, the wife of former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, was paid more than £200,000 by a...
"Extremism does not necessarily take the form of religious extremism; a call by an individual to commit violence in the name of a political ideology is...
Renewing calls for the release of “political prisoners,” the US and the UK have condemned the imprisonment of Adhaalath Party leader Sheikh Imran Abdulla on a terrorism...
Doctors estimate "it would take six to eight weeks for the initial stages of the treatment," reads a letter Nasheed's lawyer Hassan Latheef sent to Commissioner...
Adhaalath Party leader Sheikh Imran was found guilty of terrorism last night over a speech he made at a mass anti-government protest on May 1 last...
Adhaalath Party leader Sheikh Imran Abdulla has been found guilty of terrorism and sentenced to 12 years in prison. Imran was accused of inciting violence at...
President Abdulla Yameen has blamed former President Mohamed Nasheed's claims of Maldivians joining extremist groups in Syria for an international bank dropping the Maldives from its...
The Maldives Islamic Bank had refused to share information about Yameen's private bank account with the Anti-Corruption Commission for its investigation into the embezzlement of nearly...
The judicial watchdog has approved a proposal by the Supreme Court to transfer the chief judge of the criminal court to the family court effective February...
