Yameen Rasheed murder planning started in a mosque, testifies secret witness
The witness implicated the six defendants during anonymised testimony.
31 Jul 2019, 9:00 AM
Defendants charged over the killing of liberal blogger Yameen Rasheed started planning the murder in a mosque, a secret witness testified on Wednesday.
The prosecution’s key witness gave anonymised testimony via an audio link and told the court that he knew the six defendants well as friends. He claimed to have heard them plotting the murder in various places, including the Furqan mosque and Thoiba mosque in Malé.
Discussions started in November 2016 and meetings also took place in the home of Ismail Haisham Rasheed, the leader of the group, said the witness, whose voice was altered to prevent identification.
Yameen Rasheed, a satirist and IT professional, was stabbed to death in the stairwell of his apartment building on April 23, 2017.
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