Man arrested over photo of boat blast suspect
Ismail Shakir, an employee of the state-owned Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL), was arrested for taking a photograph of Maldivian police officers taking a suspect in a ‘bomb plot’ into custody from the airport tarmac on Friday.
02 Nov 2015, 9:00 AM
An airports company staff has been detained after he published a photo of police officers arresting a suspect in the alleged plot to assassinate President Abdulla Yameen.
Ismail Shakir, an employee of the state-owned Maldives Airports Company Ltd (MACL), photographed police officers taking into custody an influential businessman, Hamid Ismail, from the airport tarmac on Friday.
Hamid, who is also a relative of detained Vice President Ahmed Adeeb, was arrested in Kuala Lumpur last week and deported to the Maldives on Friday.
A senior staff at the MACL told The Maldives Independent on the condition of anonymity that Shakir was arrested a few hours after Hamid stepped off the Sri Lankan airlines flight.
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