Court cancels first open hearing in Yameen Rasheed murder trial
The trial was cancelled 15 minutes before it was due to start.
07 Jun 2018, 9:00 AM
The first open hearing in the murder trial of slain blogger Yameen Rasheed was cancelled Thursday, with the family condemning the move by the Criminal Court.
It had been scheduled for 11am but was cancelled 15 minutes before it was due to start. Defence lawyers were busy, court staff informed family members.
Preliminary hearings have been closed to the public and press at the request of the Prosecutor General’s office, despite requests by family and friends to open the trial.
“It seems defence lawyers are very influential on our judiciary in this case. It’s more than a year since the case is filed in the court. Every time the judge surrenders to the defence lawyers. This is why (we) say that the government is complicit in this murder case,” Yameen’s father Hussain Rasheed tweeted.
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