Feature Comment
The Maldives Nine (part two)
Nine people are on trial over an alleged plot to topple the government. Their arrests followed a shock Supreme Court ruling that ordered the release of President Abdulla Yameen’s opponents and the reinstatement of opposition lawmakers who had been stripped of their seats.
08 May 2018, 9:00 AM
‘First he raped me. Then he came for my sisters’
Child sexual abuse is a problem in the Maldives. More than 400 cases of child sexual abuse were reported last year alone.
02 May 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: The Rilwan Story
“I remember the exact moment when I first saw Ahmed Rilwan,” Yameen Rasheed wrote. “It was late 2009, and I had just arrived in the Maldives.”
22 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: Selected works
April 23 2018 will mark a year since blogger and satirist Yameen Rasheed was murdered. The Maldives Independent is re-publishing some of his work to commemorate what he stood for.
21 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: Timeline of a murder
There have been six preliminary hearings in the Yameen Rasheed murder trial. All six have been held behind closed doors.
20 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: Selected works
April 23 2018 will mark a year since blogger and satirist Yameen Rasheed was murdered. The Maldives Independent is re-publishing some of his work to commemorate what he stood for.
20 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: Selected works
April 23 2018 will mark a year since blogger and satirist Yameen Rasheed was murdered. The Maldives Independent is re-publishing some of his work to commemorate what he stood for.
19 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: Who’s Who
Police arrested eight people in relation to Yameen Rasheed’s murder. Six were charged.
18 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen Rasheed: An introduction
Yameen Rasheed was a popular blogger and IT professional. He would have been 30 this month.
18 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Maldives-India Bye Bhai?
Relations between the Maldives and India have sunk to new lows — and remain on a downward trajectory — since President Abdulla Yameen was sworn into office.
17 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Apostasy, foreign fighters and religious freedom in the Maldives: a policy paper
The Islamic affairs ministry has published a paper about issues related to religious freedom, mocking religion, going to war in the name of religion, committing murder and acts of war in the name of religion.
15 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Small is beautiful: startups in the Maldives
Aminath Shareehan Ibrahim launched a startup in the Maldives, creating products based around the Dhivehi language.
10 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
After Ibthihaal
Ibthihaal Mohamed was physically and psychologically harmed by different individuals on different occasions, for a long period of time, a high-ranking police officer said.
30 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
China, debt and the Maldives
The IMF and World Bank say major building projects have the capacity to transform the Maldivian economy, but are concerned about the high debt being fuelled by the infrastructure scale-up.
27 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
Crowded out by Concrete
The Maldivian population is 338,434, almost 40 percent of which lives in a congested capital that measures 2.2 square miles.
24 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
An unjustly jailed dictator
The incarceration of the former president and strongman, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has provoked mixed emotions among Maldivians.
21 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
Yameen assails ‘traitorous’ coup plotters
Extracts of President Yameen’s speech on February 27 in which he railed against “traitors” in the judiciary and police who plotted with opposition leaders to remove him from office.
01 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
“When somebody shits, we clean it up”: President addresses coup plot
“That night of 1 February was an attempt to bring my government down to its knees,” said President Abdulla Yameen of a Supreme Court ruling ordering the release of his opponents.
20 Feb 2018, 9:00 AM
#MaldivesInCrisis, young people and politics
The young people interviewed for this article did not feel represented by any one politician or party and none of them have connections to the country’s political parties.
17 Feb 2018, 9:00 AM
Maldives State of Emergency: A timeline
President Abdulla Yameen claims the Supreme Court is at the centre of what his supporters have called a “judicial coup” to overthrow the government. He says there was no way to investigate the attempted coup without declaring a state of emergency.
12 Feb 2018, 9:00 AM
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