Raajje TV under fire again for ‘airing defamatory content’
The Maldives Broadcasting Commission, in a letter to the opposition-aligned station today, said it was looking into a complaint filed over defamatory content aired during the May 1 episode of the talk show, Fala Surkhee.
12 May 2016, 9:00 AM
The broadcast regulator has launched a probe into Raajje TV’s broadcast of a second interview with an opposition member who has repeatedly levelled corruption allegations against President Abdulla Yameen.
The Maldives Broadcasting Commission, in a letter to the opposition-aligned station today, said it was looking into a complaint filed over defamatory content aired during the May 1 episode of the talk show, Fala Surkhee.
Ali Waheed, the chairperson of the Maldivian Democratic Party, in an apparent show of defiance of the MBC’s penalizing Raajje TV for a previous interview with him, claimed Yameen has been depositing “suitcases of black money” in Singaporean banks, including the United Overseas Bank.
Raajje TV is being forced to broadcast the live talk-show with a five-minute delay after Waheed accused the president and the first lady of corruption in a February 9 interview. The former MP is living in exile in the United Kingdom.
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