Slain blogger’s family ‘left with no answers and little hope’
“According to the official narrative, no one ordered my son’s murder. No one paid these suspects. They acted on their own,” Yameen Rasheed’s father wrote in an op-ed.
21 May 2018, 9:00 AM
The father of liberal blogger Yameen Rasheed questioned the official narrative of his son’s murder in an op-ed published Monday in the Indian Express.
Hussain Rasheed expressed concern about the secrecy and lack of access to the closed-door murder trial.
“According to the official narrative, no one ordered my son’s murder. No one paid these suspects. They acted on their own. But without access to the trial, there is no way of being sure that these seven suspects are the only — or even the actual — people responsible for my son’s murder,” he wrote.
The refusal to heed calls by family and friends to open the trial was “one part of the painful denial of justice our family has had to endure,” he added.
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