Home Ministry publishes list of detention centres four days after deadline
11 Apr 2014, 5:37 PM
The Ministry of Home Affairs has published a list of detention centres four days after a legally-mandated deadline elapsed.
The home minister was required by the the recently passed Anti-torture Act to make public a list of prisons and detention centres where individuals are held in state custody.
The anti-torture law that came into effect on March 22 stipulated that the list must be publicised within 15 days (before April 6).
The document (Dhivehi) released last night (April 10) listed 29 detention centres, including the main prison on Maafushi island, the low-security facility on Himmafushi, the Malé jail, custodial centres in the capital and Dhoonidhoo as well as 18 police stations across the country.
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