Court blocks Haveeru staff from registering new paper
Judge Haleem ordered Haveeru’s founder, management and staff not to “commit any act that could impair Haveeru’s archive, property, news, information, photo, video, money, all its resources, and any other item under Haveeru’s ownership”.
26 Apr 2016, 9:00 AM
The civil court has barred all of Haveeru’s journalists from quitting en masse and registering a new paper, pending an outcome in the battle for the Maldives’ oldest newspaper.
The stay order was requested last Thursday by the local daily’s new shareholders, Farooq Hassan, Ibrahim Rasheed Moosa and Mohamed Naeem, who argued that the organisation would go bankrupt if staff were allowed to register a new paper.
The three men were granted a controlling share of Haveeru by the High Court last year.
Judge Mohamed Haleem ordered today the newspaper’s founder Dr Zahir Hussain, parent company Haveeru Media Group, and all of the organisation’s employees to “respect employment contracts.
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