Witnesses testify in Raajje TV journalist’s assault trial
Hussain Fiyaz Moosa, chief operating officer of the opposition-aligned station, is accused of hitting Corporal Mohamed Shaheen while he was being arrested for refusing to leave the sports complex area of Malé where the military’s bomb disposal experts were defusing an improvised explosive device.
04 Feb 2017, 9:00 AM
The criminal court heard Thursday testimony from defence witnesses in the trial of a Raajje TV journalist accused of assaulting a police officer while covering a bomb scare in November 2015.
Hussain Fiyaz Moosa, chief operating officer of the opposition-aligned station, is accused of hitting Corporal Mohamed Shaheen while he was being arrested for refusing to leave the sports complex area of Malé where the military’s bomb disposal experts were defusing an improvised explosive device.
Fiyaz, who could face a jail sentence of more than a month if convicted, has pleaded not guilty to the assault charge.
“As we’ve said before, we maintain that these trials against journalists from Raajje TV are baseless in nature and is an example of the government’s continued targeting of journalists and media,” the 39-year-old veteran journalist told the Maldives Independent after the hearing.
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