Early release of child sex offender sparks outrage
Ibrahim Rasheed was an under-secretary at the president’s office.
05 Dec 2018, 9:00 AM
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih’s decision Tuesday to commute the 10-year prison sentence of a convicted child sex offender has sparked outrage on social media.
Ibrahim Rasheed, known as ‘Hoara Ibbe,’ was an under-secretary at the president’s office during the previous Maldivian Democratic Party government. The MDP activist was sentenced in December 2013.
After serving half of the jail term, Rasheed is due to be released in two days, the president’s spokesman Ibrahim Hoodh told the Maldives Independent.
“The president followed a recommendation by the clemency board in 2016 to release Rasheed,” he added, declining to comment further.
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