Court order sought to prevent Haveeru staff from registering new paper
The battle for the Maldives’ oldest newspaper, Haveeru Daily, took a new twist on Thursday, with the paper’s new shareholders requesting a stay order to prevent its founder and staff from registering or operating a new paper.
22 Apr 2016, 9:00 AM
The battle for the Maldives’ oldest newspaper, Haveeru Daily, took a new twist on Thursday, with the paper’s new shareholders requesting a stay order to prevent its founder and staff from registering or operating a new paper.
Haveeru remains closed for a third week over the bitter dispute.
The daily’s new shareholders, Farooq Hassan, Ibrahim Rasheed Moosa and Mohamed Naeem, applied for a stay order against its founder Zahir Hussein on Wednesday. A hearing was scheduled the next day.
If the paper’s journalists start a new paper, it would void a High Court ruling that legitimised Farooq, Moosa and Naeem’s ownership claim, and lead to the paper’s bankruptcy, their lawyer argued.
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