It was the first case wrapped up by the inquiry commission.
Hamzath Ahmed Fathuhy died after suffering a stroke last week.
Giving prisoners basic rights should not be seen as giving them luxuries, said a local NGO.
Politician Ahmed Mahloof said inmates are dying without proper care from authorities.
HRCM Vice President Shifaq Mufeed told the press that the hunger strike was prompted by "tightened security measures" but an informed source alleged that electricity was...
Jailed former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb's lawyer has slammed a report in Vnews alleging that his client was transferred to a police custodial centre Wednesday after...
The president plans to free "200 or 300 or even more" prisoners because he "loves you a lot," the home minister told inmates at the Maafushi...
Mahloof's wife claim that the MP's health is deteriorating in jail has prompted calls for his transfer to house imprisonment for medical care.
Ahmed 'Shumba Gong' Ashraf was forced to sit on the floor, in handcuffs, while prisons officers alternately poured hot and ice-cold water on him, said lawyer...
Lawyers said they had been allowed to visit the opposition leader only four times since his re-imprisonment in August. A meeting scheduled for November 19 has...
A floodlight aimed at former President Mohamed Nasheed’s prison cell throughout the night is depriving him of sleep, his family has said.
The government has earmarked funds in next year's budget for new jails, a "death chamber" and solitary confinement units at the Maafushi jail, but slashed funding...
Hassan Latheef's statements on behalf of former President Mohamed Nasheed on social media "could harm public interest and the state's dignity," Home Minister Umar Naseer informed...
Former President Mohamed Nasheed’s parents and siblings were denied a weekly visit at the high-security prison on Maafushi Island today, according to lawyers.
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has expressed concern over the re-imprisonment of former President Mohamed Nasheed on Sunday.
The government today denied commuting former President Mohamed Nasheed’s 13-year jail term to house arrest, suggesting official documents publicised by his lawyers may have been forged.
The criminal court has thrown out a petition filed by former President Mohamed Nasheed requesting his transfer from house arrest to prison be ruled arbitray and...
