Yameen Rasheed Murder

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A roundup of the day’s top stories.

‘Don’t let go’: President marches with family of murdered blogger

President Solih marched with the parents of Yameen Rasheed and Ahmed Rilwan.

Hope for justice: Yameen Rasheed’s murder two years on

The murder blogger’s family has pinned their hopes on a presidential commission.

Yameen Rasheed murder hearing cancelled for ‘administrative reasons’

An open hearing in the murder trial of Yameen Rasheed has yet to be held.

Court cancels first open hearing in Yameen Rasheed murder trial

The trial was cancelled 15 minutes before it was due to start.

Slain blogger’s family ‘left with no answers and little hope’

“According to the official narrative, no one ordered my son’s murder. No one paid these suspects. They acted on their own,” Yameen Rasheed’s father wrote in an op-ed.

Openly killed, secretly charged: Yameen Rasheed’s murder one year on

Hussein Rasheed saw his son’s throat had been slashed and that part of his skull was missing. He counted more than 30 deep wounds on his son’s chest, face and head.

Yameen Rasheed: Selected works

April 23 2018 will mark a year since blogger and satirist Yameen Rasheed was murdered. The Maldives Independent is re-publishing some of his work to commemorate what he stood for.

Yameen Rasheed: Selected works

April 23 2018 will mark a year since blogger and satirist Yameen Rasheed was murdered. The Maldives Independent is re-publishing some of his work to commemorate what he stood for.

Yameen Rasheed: Timeline of a murder

There have been six preliminary hearings in the Yameen Rasheed murder trial. All six have been held behind closed doors.

Yameen’s family turned away by police and Prosecutor General

Yameen’s family, as well as activists, were unsuccessful in their attempts to meet officials and were told to come back a week later.

Yameen Rasheed: Who’s Who

Police arrested eight people in relation to Yameen Rasheed’s murder. Six were charged.

Getting away with murder in the Maldives

Murder is not included on the police website’s crime statistics page, which has data going back to 2008.

Government house calls for Maldivians insulting Islam on social media

The ‘house call’ initiative comes amid the ongoing trial of seven people charged with murdering liberal blogger and Internet activist Yameen Rasheed, whose death was justified and even welcomed on social media by those who saw him as an apostate.

Yameen murder trial hearings will be open, says PG office

Court dismisses police negligence lawsuit from murdered blogger’s family

The civil court has dismissed a lawsuit filed by the family of slain blogger Yameen Rasheed over the failure of the police to protect him despite numerous death threats reported to the authorities since 2014.

Rilwan and Yameen’s relatives fired for joining protest march

The nephew of missing journalist Ahmed Rilwan and sister of murdered blogger Yameen Rasheed were sacked on Monday for joining a protest march to mark three years after the former was abducted at knifepoint.

Maldives blogger killed for ‘mocking Islam’, say police

Family and friends mark 100 days since Yameen Rasheed’s murder

The family and friends of slain liberal blogger Yameen Rasheed marked 100 days since the murder with a tweetstorm and a silent vigil outside his home in Malé.

An examined life: Yameen Rasheed

“The killing of Yameen is so difficult to come to terms with because it symbolises the death of potential,” writes Azra Naseem.