Customs seizes more than 100 books with ‘irreligious content’
The books were confiscated from an annual book fair.
03 Sep 2019, 9:00 AM
Hassan Mohamed
The Maldives Customs Service on Saturday seized 109 books from the Novelty Book Fair for allegedly containing irreligious content.
The books were confiscated in a joint operation conducted with police, Chief Customs Officer Aishath Wilny said.
“We confiscated books that were suspected of containing irreligious contents. It is being investigated by the police and customs right now,” Wilny told Maldives Independent.
She declined to confirm that the books were taken from the Novelty fair. But it has been widely reported that books with information about Hinduism and Christianity had been taken from the annual fair, the largest in the country.
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