New foreign minister downplays UN request to halt execution
Contrary to reports in local media, the UN Human Rights Committee has not “ordered” the government to halt the imminent execution of a 22-year-old convict, newly-appointed Foreign Minister Dr Mohamed Asim said today.
13 Jul 2016, 9:00 AM
Contrary to reports in local media, the UN Human Rights Committee has not “ordered” the government to halt the imminent execution of a 22-year-old convict, newly-appointed Foreign Minister Dr Mohamed Asim said today.
“The UN Human Rights Committee sent a note to the Maldivian government about Hussain Humam sometime last night,” Asim told the press this afternoon.
“The note was sent to inform the government that information about Humam’s case has been submitted by some people to the Human Rights Committee. It isn’t an order for the Maldivian government to do or not to do anything specific. The government is now studying the content of this note.”
He added that the attorney general’s office will brief the media in the near future.
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