Youth minister acquitted over ‘false reporting’ tweet
The former lawmaker was put on trial over a tweet alleging culpability over custodial deaths.
21 Nov 2018, 9:00 AM
Former MP Ahmed Mahloof was acquitted Wednesday on a charge of false reporting to law enforcement over a tweet alleging culpability over custodial deaths.
The newly-appointed minister could have faced a jail sentence of nearly five months if found guilty.
During the trial earlier this year, the former lawmaker insisted he was expressing concern over prison deaths and that his intention was not to inform any authority.
“Inmates are not dying in Maafushi jail, they’re being killed. They’re deprived of proper treatment and killed. When 10 inmates die in a year that’s a serious problem,” Mahloof tweeted in January.
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