‘Father’s crime is not supporting the government’: Gasim’s daughter
The opposition coalition rallied Friday afternoon with the families of detainees arrested during a state of emergency declared in February over an alleged coup plot.
07 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
The opposition coalition rallied Friday afternoon with the families of detainees arrested during a state of emergency declared in February over an alleged coup attempt.
The family members gathered outside the Maldivian Democratic Party meeting hall in Malé’s eastern waterfront, beneath a new billboard with the faces of more than 40 detainees that declared, ‘Everyone has the right to justice, Release all political prisoners!’
“My brother’s only crime is that he is a son of Gasim Ibrahim. And my father’s crime is not supporting the government,” said Khadheeja Sana, daughter of the exiled Jumhooree Party leader, in her first speech at a political rally.
“The result of my father not supporting the government was his unfair jailing and the bankrupting of his businesses.”
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