MPs clash over Afrasheem murder report
Shouting matches erupted at the security services committee.
23 Nov 2019, 9:00 AM
Opposition and ruling party lawmakers clashed on Thursday night over a presidential commission’s report on the brutal murder of Dr Afrasheem Ali in October 2012.
A televised meeting of the security services committee was disrupted by opposition Progressive Party of Maldives MP Ahmed Shiyam, leading to heated exchanges with MPs Eva Abdulla, Ali Azim, Hassan Latheef and Ilyas Labeeb from the ruling Maldivian Democratic Party.
Naifaru MP Shiyam questioned the legitimacy of the presidential commission’s report, which ruled out political motives and concluded that Afrasheem was killed by a local extremist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
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