Maldives government denies involvement in journalist’s disappearance
Responding to the UN, the Maldivian foreign ministry said the government “rejected any suggestion that it is responsible for the disappearance of Rilwan, or that it has any involvement as alleged at all.”
10 May 2016, 9:00 AM
The government has denied involvement in the disappearance of The Maldives Independent’s journalist Ahmed Rilwan, who was abducted from outside his home at knifepoint in 2014.
Responding to the UN Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances in Geneva, the Maldivian foreign ministry said today the government “rejected any suggestion that it is responsible for the disappearance of Rilwan, or that it has any involvement as alleged at all.”
That Rilwan’s abduction was reported five days after he went missing had proved to be the biggest obstacle to the probe, the ministry said in a separate and shorter statement in Dhivehi.
It went on to question the mandate of the WGEID – a panel of top independent experts – in reviewing the case.
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