Maldives police raid private TV station at midnight
The court warrant authorising the raid on Sangu TV stated that the police are seeking evidence related to a “video message uploaded to YouTube threatening to kill the president of the Maldives and senior officials of the state, and to carry out terrorist attacks.”
06 Nov 2015, 9:00 AM
The police raided private station Sangu TV at 1:30am last night, stopping its live transmission and confiscating hard disks and archive systems.
According to the court warrant authorising the search and seizure operation, the police were seeking evidence related to a “video message uploaded to YouTube threatening to kill the president of the Maldives and senior officials of the state, and to carry out terrorist attacks.”
The police had submitted information from YouTube and an intelligence report to obtain the warrant.
Ruling party MP Yameen Rasheed, a close associate of impeached Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, is reportedly a shareholder of the Dhivehi Media Group company that operates Sangu TV.
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