After raid, Sangu TV resumes live transmission
Sangu TV was forced off-air after the police confiscated all of the station’s hard disks during a raid in the early hours of Friday. Ibrahim Waheed ‘Asward,’ Sangu TV’s managing director, said the police have not returned the broadcasting equipment. The station used hard disks from its staff to resume broadcasting at 8:00pm last night.
10 Nov 2015, 9:00 AM
The privately-owned Sangu TV resumed regular broadcast last night after a police raid in the early hours of Friday forced the station to cease live transmission.
The police said the TV station was raided based on evidence that a “threatening video message” was uploaded to YouTube from its office. Sangu TV was forced off-air after the police confiscated all of the station’s hard disks.
Ibrahim Waheed ‘Asward,’ Sangu TV’s managing director, told The Maldives Independent today that the police have not returned the broadcasting equipment. The station used personal laptops and computers from its staff to resume broadcasting at 8:00pm last night.
“We received three hard disks from individual as well. But even now the visual and audio quality of our content is lower than what we transmitted before,” he said.
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