Azra Naseem dissects the government-proposed bill to recriminalise defamation. "To start with, direct full-frontal assault on the right to freedom of expression," she writes.
The ruling party-dominated parliament voted today to accept a bill on criminalising defamation and restricting free speech, disregarding forceful international criticism and a free speech campaign...
A revised bill on criminalising defamation and imposing severe restrictions on free speech was introduced to parliament last Tuesday without addressing concerns raised by Maldivian journalists.
The Maldives remains "very hostile for independent and opposition media" since the February 2012 "coup d’état," reads the Reporters Without Borders' 2016 press freedom index entry...
Speaking to reporters after a meeting Tuesday afternoon with the Maldives Media Council, the parliamentary group leader of the ruling Progressive Party of Maldives said the...
