Raajje TV journalist threatened with knife
A journalist with an opposition-aligned TV channel claims he was followed by two men who threatened him with a knife for his criticism of the government.
17 Aug 2016, 9:00 AM
A journalist with an opposition-aligned TV channel claims he was followed by two men who threatened him with a knife for his criticism of the government.
Azmoon Ahmed, a senior correspondent at Raajje TV, said that two men stopped him on Malé’s streets and warned against criticising President Abdulla Yameen and Yazeed Mohamed, the head of the Maldives Inland Revenue Authority.
He said he was also told not to write on the brutal murder of MP Afrasheem Ali.
The men further said that if Azmoon didn’t oblige, he would end up with the same fate as Ahmed Rilwan, a journalist from Maldives Independent who was abducted and disappeared in 2014.
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