President Abdulla Yameen invoked emergency powers and suspended basic rights "primarily because the bench of the Supreme Court was beyond any measure of constitutional accountability," the Maldives permanent...
In his opening statement Monday at the UN Human Rights Council's 36th session in Geneva, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussain said the Maldivian government was "increasingly cracking down...
The permanent mission to the UN in Geneva said the Maldives deferred its candidacy for a later term "in the spirit of regional solidarity and in...
The Maldives has scornfully dismissed calls by more than 30 countries to restore constitutional freedoms, allow space for political opposition, and prevent the intimidation of human...
Despite the foreign minister claiming successful consolidation of democracy, the curtailment of fundamental rights and the widely condemned imprisonment of opposition leaders during President Abdulla Yameen's...
The judiciary came under fire during the Maldives' Universal Periodic Review in May over "politicisation," inadequate qualification of judges, and lack of conformity to international fair...
"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...
"To seek the release of an individual purely on the basis of his political standing and having [no] regard to the allegations against him is inappropriate,...
