Terrorism
Supreme Court overturns ex-VP’s terrorism conviction
Adeeb’s combined 33-year jail sentence is now down to eight years.
27 May 2019, 9:00 AM
Maldives beefs up security after Sri Lanka bombings
An emergency response exercise was conducted as border security was tightened.
06 May 2019, 9:00 AM
Maldives court frees ‘top terrorist leader’
Mohamed Abdul Rahman was charged with terrorism for participating in a foreign war.
05 Aug 2018, 9:00 AM
Charges raised against detained Special Ops police
The eight Specials Ops officers were initially accused of planning to violently confront on-duty police officers when the Supreme Court ordered the release of political prisoners on February 1.
07 Apr 2018, 9:00 AM
Maldives state of emergency detainees charged with terrorism
A former president, two judges, four lawmakers and the police chief conspired to instigate a coup with a Supreme Court order for the release of nine prisoners, the Prosecutor General’s office said Tuesday night, revealing charges against 11 suspects.
20 Mar 2018, 9:00 AM
Government blasts Nasheed over terror threat claims
Mohamed Nasheed said there was a parallel state of religious radicals ready to overrun the country and there were 300 Maldivians fighting in Syria and Iraq.
23 Jan 2018, 9:00 AM
No threat of terror attack on tourists, says minister
The tourism minister said there was no danger to tourists and that there was no report of a threat to the Maldives.
14 Jan 2018, 9:00 AM
Alleged Maldivian jihadis cleared of intent to join terror group
The first three Maldivian men to be charged with travelling abroad with the intent of joining a terror group have been acquitted of the terrorism charges.
23 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
Two Maldivians caught en route to Syria
Two Maldivians en route to join the fighting in Syria have been arrested in Turkey and brought back to the country, according to the police.
21 Oct 2017, 9:00 AM
Maldives downplays UK warning of ‘very likely’ terror attack
Playing down the United Kingdom’s updated travel advice to the country which said terrorists were “very likely” to carry out an attack, the ambassador to the UK stressed the tropical paradise “remains one of the safest destinations in the world”.
27 Sep 2017, 9:00 AM
Three Maldivians arrested en route to Syria
According to the police, the three men were arrested in a joint operation with the Turkish law enforcement authorities. They were alleged to have been planning to cross the border into Syria to join a militant group.
24 Sep 2017, 9:00 AM
Two Maldivians among Malaysia terror suspects
“The two Maldives men, who worked as air-conditioner technicians, were arrested for using Malaysia and Singapore as a transit point before heading to Syria to join IS,” said Inspector-General of Police Datuk Seri Mohamad Fuzi Harun.
06 Sep 2017, 9:00 AM
Judge decides to proceed with MP Ibrahim Didi’s terrorism trial
The judge overruled objections from the defence lawyer who contended that the lawmaker could not be prosecuted for the second time on the same charge as the Prosecutor General’s office had withdrawn the case two years ago.
17 Aug 2017, 9:00 AM
Opposition MP charged with terrorism
The retired brigadier general was previously put on trial along with former President Mohamed Nasheed over the military’s detention of the criminal court’s chief judge but the Prosecutor General had withdrawn the case in July 2015.
04 Jul 2017, 9:00 AM
Four arrested over ‘terror plot’
Four men were arrested on Monday during a series of police raids in Male over an intelligence tip off over a suspected terror plot, according to court documents and local media reports.
25 Apr 2017, 9:00 AM
‘Terror threat’ prompted cancellation of Saudi king’s visit to Maldives
Both the police and the home minister have dismissed the article by Asian News International, which reported that the Saudi king’s official visit was cancelled over fears that terror cells set up by a Yemeni man in the Maldives could pose a threat.
19 Mar 2017, 9:00 AM
Second Maldivian ‘jihadi’ on trial for fighting in Pakistan
Ahmed Naiz was charged with terrorism for allegedly participating in a foreign war, an offence that carries a jail sentence of up to 20 years.
05 Feb 2017, 9:00 AM
Maldives holds landmark conference on tourism and terrorism
The Maldives police and British counter-terrorism experts sat down this week with more than a 100 tourism sector security personnel to work out measures to protect visitors from potential acts of terror.
26 Jan 2017, 9:00 AM
Trial begins for Maldivian man ‘who fought in Pakistan for nine years’
Mohamed Abdul Rahman is alleged to have fought with a militant group in Pakistan’s Waziristan for some nine years
15 Jan 2017, 9:00 AM
Police seek to charge Nasheed for Yameen’s 2010 arrest
A spokesman said the police have sent files on the investigation to the prosecutor general’s office, but declined to comment on the charges against the opposition leader.
10 Jan 2017, 9:00 AM
