‘Let me know if you need a lawyer’
Omkar Khandekar recounts the police raid on the Maldives Independent’s office in the wake of the much-anticipated release of Al Jazeera’s corruption exposé Stealing Paradise.
13 Sep 2016, 9:00 AM
“Hope you’re okay. If you need a lawyer, let me know,” said one of 100 unread messages on my phone in the two hours that I hadn’t checked it while out on an assignment. “Office being raided,” said another, this one from a colleague at the Maldives Independent. The first message now made sense.
This article was first published on Scroll .
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