Some 183 Maldivian journalists have signed a historic petition urging the authorities to tackle threats to press freedom, including the withdrawal of a bill criminalising defamation...
The journalists were not allowed to march as closing down the capital's main thoroughfare would have caused traffic jams and posed difficulties to pedestrians and businesses,...
The unprecedented prosecution of three journalists comes amidst a campaign launched by the Maldivian media against a government crackdown on press freedom in the country.
It is perhaps not the best idea to jail a bunch of journalists. It means that those who hold the pen, the power to communicate, feel...
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...
While international human rights and press freedom organisations have condemned the mass arrests as symptomatic of declining press freedom in the Maldives, the Human Rights Commission...
The ruling party-dominated parliament has approved six of President Abdulla Yameen's nominees to the Maldives Broadcasting Commission, including the regulator's incumbent president and two campaign workers....
The police have violently cracked down on a peaceful sit-down protest staged by journalists outside the president's office this morning, arresting more than 15 reporters from...
Misbah Abbas, senior desk editor at CNM, told The Maldives Independent that he was barred days after he reported Judge Bari threatening journalists over allegedly unfair...
A reporter was briefly detained today for taking a picture of former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb as he left the capital under heavy police guard following...
Hassan Zaheen, senior journalist at Addu Live, told The Maldives Independent that suspects acquitted by the criminal court had often called reporters and demanded the removal...
Raajje TV COO Hussain Fiyaz Moosa alleged that Abdul Shukoor Abdulla, executive coordinator at the youth ministry, and Ahmed Mamdhooh, deputy managing director of the state-owned...
