What can be the excuse for detaining Ameen Faizal indefinitely? This is one of many questions that Maldivians are asking. Salah's death in mysterious circumstances, news of attempted suicide by an opposition activist, and the MDP call for civil disobedience contribute to the climate of dissatisfaction that appears to be brewing in the atoll-state.
Ajay Makan, Police Delaying Ameen Faisal Investigation: Lawyer, Minivan News, April 30, 2007.
Meanwhile Hussein Salah’s death has exposed many negative aspects of the Maldivian system; a lack of trust, political and media polarisation, the epidemic of drug addiction and more.
Will Jordan, As Salah Is Buried, A Dire Need For Independent Institutions, Minivan News, April 29, 2007.
The President of the Human Rights Commission (HRCM) has challenged President Gayoom to come up with “a clear policy statement” condemning torture.
Meanwhile Three journalists were arrested at Malé’s Asahara cemetery on 27 April while covering the funeral of Hussein Salah, a government opponent whose body was found on 15 April with his face and body swollen, although the official autopsy said he died of drowning. Police accused the three journalists - Zeena Zahir of the pro-government newspaper Miadhu, e-Sandhaanu website editor Adam Miqdad, and Minivan Daily photographer Mohamed Nasheed - of being demonstrators and not reporters. Zahir was freed a few hours later but the other two have been taken to Dhoonidhoo island prison, near the capital.
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