President regrets early release of child sex offender
Solih expressed regret for the decision to commute Ibrahim Rasheed’s sentence.
27 Mar 2019, 9:00 AM
President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih on Wednesday expressed regret over his decision to commute the 10-year prison sentence of a convicted child sex offender in December.
Ibrahim Rasheed, known as ‘Hoara Ibbe,’ an under-secretary at the president’s office during the previous Maldivian Democratic Party government, was sentenced in December 2013. Shortly after assuming office last November, President Solih followed a recommendation of the clemency board from 2016 and authorised Rasheed’s early release, a decision that sparked outrage on social media.
Appearing on Raajje TV’s Fashaairu morning show, Solih said he was still troubled by the decision although it was done within legal bounds.
“But I now wish I hadn’t done it,” he said, adding that he regretted the move. “It was done a bit too hastily. If it had been done in my real pace, it wouldn’t have happened that way.”
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