Prosecutor General assures slain blogger’s family of open trial

There will be an open trial for the murderers of slain blogger Yameen Rasheed, the prosecutor general told his family on Sunday.

Yameen was killed a year ago and hearings are either being held in secret or cancelled altogether.

His family, along with activists, attempted to meet Prosecutor General Aishath Bisham ahead of the first anniversary of his brutal murder but were turned away and told to return a week later.

“We remain hopeful even though it is very hopeless,” said his mother Mariyam Shafeega after Sunday’s meeting with Bisham. “Because of how things have turned out, it is difficult to have hope. PG told us that the trial will be open and we are hopeful that it will be so,” she said.