Dunya asks India to help free jailed father Gayoom
Dunya Maumoon, a former foreign minister in her uncle President Abdulla Yameen’s government, told an Indian newspaper that the Maldivian “experiment with democracy may be failing” and that the future remained uncertain.
01 May 2018, 9:00 AM
Dunya Maumoon, daughter of jailed former president Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, has appealed for Indian intervention to help free her father.
Dunya, a former foreign minister in her uncle President Abdulla Yameen’s government, told Indian newspaper Asian Age that the Maldivian “experiment with democracy may be failing” and that the future remained uncertain.
“Democracy in the Maldives is [in] a crisis point. It is a serious crisis, with far reaching consequences.. there is a cycle of vengeance,” she said.
Gayoom was arrested in February following a state of emergency that was declared after the Supreme Court ordered the release of nine political prisoners, including Dunya’s younger brother MP Faris Maumoon.
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