Journalists threatened on filming top judge’s secret visit with president
A group of young men threatened to kill several journalists camped outside President Abdulla Yameen’s residence hoping to film the secret visit of a top judge, the criminal court’s chief judge Abdulla Mohamed.
16 Oct 2015, 9:00 AM
A group of young men threatened to kill several journalists camped outside President Abdulla Yameen’s residence hoping to film the secret visit of a top judge.
Two young men told opposition-aligned Raajje TV’s Wisam Mohamed they would kill him if he filmed Criminal Court Chief Judge Abdulla Mohamed’s departure from the president’s official residence on Thursday night.
Three other journalists including a reporter and photographer from Sun Online witnessed the scene. The group of seven surrounded the four journalists, while a ruling party MP physically blocked their view of the residence’s door as the judge left the building and got into a waiting car.
The chief judge’s visit with Yameen comes at a time of heightened anxiety in Malé with an investigation underway into an alleged assassination attempt on the president’s speedboat on September 28.
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