The UN Human Rights Committee has requested the government to halt the imminent execution of Hussain Humam Ahmed pending the outcome of its review of his...
Dr Shaheem, the vice chancellor of the Maldives Islamic University, argued that the concerns raised by Professor Tariq Ramadan in a letter to the president last...
"Humam’s death will affect all of us, our national psyche because with him we will lose that sense of longing for something good that we might...
In a letter sent to President Yameen on July 5, the renowned Islamic scholar wrote that executing Hussain Humam without the consent of the victim's family...
If the dispute with his half-brother former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom is not resolved, Yameen said the increasingly acrimonious PPM split "will be a big Eid...
Foreign Minister Dunya Maumoon has resigned his afternoon, citing opposition to the government's plans to implement the death penalty.
Former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom has also opposed Humam's execution without the consent of the victim's family. "No Islamic state has the right to carry out...
The role of ‘journalists’ like the editor of pro-government outlet Avas and the establishments that prop such people up, was crucial in bringing to an end...
The government is forging ahead with plans to execute the 22-year-old man convicted of killing MP Afrasheem Ali. The MP's family, who asked courts to delay...
The noose around Humam’s neck will put an end to not just his life but to two problems the government encounters: rumours of President Yameen’s involvement...
Family members of a murdered MP have asked the supreme court to delay the death penalty for the 22-year-old man convicted of killing him.
The conclusion of an appeal against death sentence on Ahmed Murrath, convicted of killing a prominent lawyer, brings the Maldives a step closer to the first...
Death row prisoners will be executed within thirty days of the Supreme Court upholding or issuing a guilty verdict, Home Minister Umar Naseer said in an...
The high court overturned today a murder conviction against Fariyash Ahmed, who was serving a life sentence over a killing in 2006. The 28-year-old had escaped...
The high court has upheld today the death sentence of a young woman convicted of killing a prominent lawyer, despite her lawyer insisting the death penalty...
Here are excerpts from President Abdulla Yameen's May 3 speech, in which he defended a constitutional amendment that set age-limits of 30- 65 years for the...
Hussain Humam was sentenced to death "through a process that has breached the principles of Islamic Shari’a, common law, international obligations and even common sense," argues...
