Journalists retrace missing colleague’s final known footsteps
A group of Maldivian journalists retraced Friday the final known footsteps of their abducted colleague, Ahmed Rilwan, in protest against the government’s response to a UN human rights panel on his disappearance.
14 May 2016, 9:00 AM
A group of Maldivian journalists retraced Friday the final known footsteps of their abducted colleague, Ahmed Rilwan, in protest against the government’s response to a UN human rights panel on his disappearance.
Some 17 journalists from The Maldives Independent, Haveeru, Raajje TV, Sangu TV, CNM, VTV and Dhuvas boarded a ferry to Malé’s suburb island Hulhumalé at 4:30pm yesterday.
They staged a silent march there, carrying banners and posters, walking from the ferry terminal to Rilwan’s apartment building, where the reporter with The Maldives Independent (formerly Minivan News) had been abducted at knifepoint on August 8, 2014.
The group signed a handwritten declaration outside his building, resolving to “remain steadfast in the search for the truth in Rilwan’s disappearance until justice is served.”
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