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Travel Ban

Politics

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

Politics

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

Politics

‘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

News In Brief

Law amended to prevent passports being held without court orders

28 Aug 2014, 3:32 PM

Features & Comment

Week in review: March 1– 8

08 Mar 2014, 7:49 PM

Environment

Former President Nasheed reaches Copenhagen climate talks despite alleged obstruction

15 Apr 2013, 10:27 PM

Politics

Court bans former President Nasheed from travelling abroad

03 Mar 2013, 7:19 PM

Politics

“Technical problem” prevented former President Nasheed from leaving, Immigration Department claims

22 Dec 2012, 2:58 PM

Culture

Blacklisted Chinese national flees Maldives as “murder” allegations circulate in media

15 Dec 2012, 6:59 PM

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