May Day protest detainee dies in custody
Sources told the Maldives Independent that Abdulla Rasheed, who was serving a five-year sentence on assault charges, had been ill with severe diarrhoea and vomiting for the past three days.
10 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
An inmate at Maafushi high-security prison died Tuesday while being treated at Malé’s Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
Sources told the Maldives Independent that Abdulla Rasheed, who was serving a five-year sentence on assault charges, had been ill with severe diarrhoea and vomiting for the past three days.
But a Maldives Correctional Service spokesperson told the Maldives Independent he had been reported ill Monday and been hospitalised that same day in the capital.
Abdulla Rasheed was arrested at a May Day rally in 2015, when 25,000 people turned out on the streets demanding the release of former president Mohamed Nasheed. It was the country’s largest-ever protest.
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