Yameen murder trial hearings will be open, says PG office
09 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
Public hearings will be held in Yameen Rasheed’s murder trial, the Prosecutor General’s office has told the Maldives Independent, amid mounting criticism of the closed-door sessions.
Following a statement from 20 regional rights groups, the PG office’s spokesman Ahmed Thaufeeg said all criminal cases were carried out according to the criminal procedure code.
“All the hearings in the case will not be closed, so there will be open hearings as well. I am not at liberty to discuss proceedings of closed hearings. However, if preliminary hearings are being closed it is usually because it involves evidence,” he said.
He declined to comment on when the next hearing in the case would be. However, hearings are normally at least ten days apart.
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