#SorryNotSorry: Court throws out Sangu TV apology case
Sangu TV was fined MVR100,000 (US$6,500) for airing remarks by an opposition MP last December.
08 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
A private TV station that aired colourful language about the president faces having to say sorry, after the civil court on Sunday refused to overrule the broadcasting watchdog’s order for an apology.
Sangu TV was fined MVR100,000 (US$6,500) for broadcasting remarks about President Abdulla Yameen by opposition MP Mohamed Musthafa last December. It was also ordered to air a formal apology “without any excuses” during the 8pm – 10pm slot on a date before April 8.
But Ibrahim Waheed ‘Asward’, Sangu TV’s managing director, went on air hours before the deadline day and denied the word used by the MP was obscene. The station would only apologise if the court ordered it to do so, he said.
The station on Sunday said in a tweet that the civil court refused to accept an injunction to delay the on-air apology, as well as refusing to hear its case to overturn the apology order.
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