Businessman charged over MMPRC scandal seeks order to remove cameras in jail cell
Hamid’s lawyer Husnu Suood told The Maldives Independent that the four surveillance cameras in the cell and one in the cell toilet represents a “serious human rights violation.”
06 Apr 2016, 9:00 AM
Hamid Ismail, an influential businessmen on trial with former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb over the theft of resort lease payments, asked the criminal court on Tuesday for an order to remove surveillance cameras in his jail cell and toilet.
Hamid’s lawyer Husnu Suood told The Maldives Independent that the four surveillance cameras in the cell and one in the cell toilet represents a “serious human rights violation.”
“Even when he goes to the toilet, his private parts and his body can be seen through these cameras,” he said.
Suood had raised the issue during yesterday’s hearing of Hamid’s relation in relation to the embezzlement of US$5 million paid to the state-owned Maldives Marketing and Public Relations Corporation as the acquisition fee for the island of Maabinhuraa in Lhaviyani Atoll.
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