06 Jun 2019, 9:00 AM
Hassan Mohamed
The home ministry on Monday formed a committee to oversee prison reforms recommended by an audit of jails in the Maldives.
Chaired by Home Minister Sheikh Imran Abdulla, the five-member ‘Prisons Reform Monitoring Committee’ includes State Minister for Home Affairs Ali Nazeer, Inspector of Correctional Service Ahmed Mohamed, Superintendent of Prisons Mohamed Asif and police spokeswoman Izmia Zahir.
The committee was formed after a presidential commission inspected 11 prisons across the country and submitted a 290-page report last month with 182 recommendations.
Conditions were “shameful” and inmates were deprived of basic human rights, the report stated.
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