MDP calls for probe into custodial deaths
11 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
The Maldives’ main opposition party has called for an immediate international investigation into custodial deaths after an inmate died while being treated at hospital.
Abdulla Rasheed, who was serving a five-year sentence on assault charges, passed away on Monday at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital. It is the seventh custodial death in two years.
“The MDP calls for an immediate, impartial, and expert investigation into the death of Abdulla Rasheed. The State has a legal and international obligation to investigate all custodial deaths, and to ensure that the right to life, the right to be free from torture or other ill treatment or other human rights have not been violated,” it said.
Abdulla Rasheed was arrested at a May Day rally in 2015.
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