Travel Ban


Top opposition figure’s passport seized
Shidhatha Shareef’s passport was confiscated upon her arrival in Malé on Thursday. The police and immigration refused to comment.
26 Jan 2017, 9:00 AM


EU parliament debates targeted sanctions against Maldives
The European parliament is due to vote today on a resolution calling on member states to “freeze the assets abroad of members of the Maldives government and their leading supporters in the Maldivian business community and to impose a travel ban on them, in view of the continuous deterioration of the human rights situation in the country.”
17 Dec 2015, 9:00 AM


‘We worry for his safety’: Nasheed’s daughter at UN Human Rights Council
“My father, Mohamed Nasheed, former president of Maldives, was imprisoned by the Maldivian government on fabricated charges of ‘terrorism.’ He is the first democratically elected president of the Maldives. Although I know him as my tenacious and also brilliant father, who has tirelessly risked the majority of his life trying to establish basic human rights in our country,” said Meera Laila Nasheed at the UN Human Rights Council yesterday.
25 Sep 2015, 9:00 AM
Law amended to prevent passports being held without court orders
28 Aug 2014, 3:32 PM
Week in review: March 1– 8
08 Mar 2014, 7:49 PM
Former President Nasheed reaches Copenhagen climate talks despite alleged obstruction
15 Apr 2013, 10:27 PM
Court bans former President Nasheed from travelling abroad
03 Mar 2013, 7:19 PM
“Technical problem” prevented former President Nasheed from leaving, Immigration Department claims
22 Dec 2012, 2:58 PM
Blacklisted Chinese national flees Maldives as “murder” allegations circulate in media
15 Dec 2012, 6:59 PM