PPM's parliamentary group has issued a three-line-whip against the a bill that if passed would strip former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom of the party’s presidency.
Jared Genser, Amal Clooney, and Nasheed's wife, Laila Ali, briefed the British press yesterday on the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention’s (WGAD) opinion, which said...
Ruling former President Mohamed Nasheed’s imprisonment arbitrary, a UN human rights panel has urged the Maldives to release him immediately and compensate him for losses.
Colonel Ahmed Fayaz 'Papa,' head of the president's security detail, has been transferred to the post of Malé area commander and replaced with Colonel Ibrahim Rasheed....
The ruling Progressive Party of the Maldives (PPM) has proposed salary cuts of more than 50 percent for the Malé and Addu city councilors.
Indian External Affairs Minister Shushma Swaraj is scheduled to arrive in the Maldives on October 10 for a two-day visit, The Maldives Independent understands.
Shortly after today's sitting began at 9:00am, MDP MPs started chanting "Free President Nasheed" and held up banners that read, "Free President Nasheed in line with...
The police have been taking statements from journalists who witnessed the incident from the Izzudin jetty as well as crew from the 'Finifenma' speedboat, parts of...
Vice President Ahmed Adeeb and senior government officials attended the first ever ceremony of its kind on Thursday.
The Maldives has called on the UN to reform itself to better address the needs of small island states and global challenges such as climate change.
A UN human rights panel’s finding that former President Mohamed Nasheed’s imprisonment on a terrorism charge was arbitrary has revived the opposition’s streets activities, while the government’s refusal...
Human rights advocacy group Amnesty International has called on the Maldives to release former President Mohamed Nasheed or give him a fair trial, in the wake...
Dunya called the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention's ruling on Nasheed's imprisonment "arbitrary" in a meeting with the UN human rights chief, and sought to...
"We attempted to exhaust local remedies from the Maldivian judiciary, but it seems that the courts have absconded from trial by refusing to hold hearings," Nazim's...
A magistrate court has conditioned the release of a young man arrested for assault on cutting and maintaining his hair “nice and short.” The judge said...
The government has ceased filling vacancies in the civil service in a bid to reduce recurrent expenditure. The cost cutting measures suggest the government was unable...
“If the government refuses to abide by the recommendations and decisions of the UNWGAD, we will proceed with direct street action. MDP will protest relentlessly day...
