Dozen arrested for eating during fasting hours
Eating before sunset is a criminal offence during Ramadan.
26 May 2019, 9:00 AM
A dozen people were arrested for eating during fasting hours in the first 15 days of Ramadan.
According to crime statistics released by police on Saturday, 19 cases of people eating during the day were reported in the fast half of the holy month.
The 12 people taken into custody included nine from the capital Malé and three from elsewhere in the country.
The local population of the Maldives is ostensibly 100 percent Sunni Muslim. Fasting from dawn to dusk during Ramadan is one of the five pillars of the Islamic faith and eating before sunset is a criminal offence in the country.
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