Convict alleges president’s involvement in MP Afrasheem’s murder
13 Apr 2015, 9:36 PM
Hussain Humam has alleged president Abdulla Yameen and tourism minister Ahmed Adeeb’s involvement in the murder of MP Afrasheem Ali while contesting his conviction for the killing.
At the first hearing of his appeal at the High Court today, Humam, who was sentenced to death in January 2014, reportedly said the pair “will know best” the details of the crime.
The late moderate religious scholar and Progressive Party of Maldives (PPM) MP was brutally stabbed to death on October 1, 2013 in a murder that shocked the nation.
Suspicion has since been cast upon the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP), religious extremists and president Yameen. Humam is the only person convicted so far despite police saying the murder was planned and politically motivated.
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