Maafushi Prison search finds 1 potential weapon
8 mobile phones also found during 4-hour inspection.
24 Jun 2019, 9:00 AM
Hassan Mohamed
Backup guards from the Emergency Support Group have confiscated a shank and eight mobile phones from cells at Maafushi Prison after being given permission on Sunday to conduct an inspection.
The ESG carried out the search after prison guards refused to enter cells, fearing detainees were armed with makeshift weapons.
The four-hour inspection, which was carried out in the presence of Commissioner of Prisons Abdulla Munaz and representatives from the Human Rights Commission of the Maldives, went peacefully, the Home Ministry said.
“Officers found a sharp object fashioned from a steel rod which can be used as a weapon. The rod was taken from one of the steel doors of the cells,” Munaz tweeted.
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