Man arrested for threatening missing journalist’s brother
The brother of a key suspect in the abduction of The Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan has been arrested on suspicion of threatening the missing journalist’s brother.
02 May 2016, 9:00 AM
The brother of a key suspect in the abduction of The Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan has been arrested on suspicion of threatening the missing journalist’s brother.
According to the police, Ibrahim Aleef Rauf, from Henveiru Hilton in Malé, was arrested on April 20 on suspicion of threatening Moosa Rilwan.
The criminal court transferred him to house arrest on the same day, but the Prosecutor General’s office has since appealed the decision before the High Court. Aleef remains under house arrest.
His older brother, Aalif Rauf, 29, was arrested along with a second suspect on April 5, days after the police’s admission that Rilwan was abducted from outside his apartment building in Hulhumalé on August 8, 2014. A red car owned by Aalif is suspected to have been used in the abduction, police said.
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