Maldives

PRESS RELEASES

  • PR/MAL/01/06: UN urged to intervene in Maldives, 08 November 2006
  • PR/MAL/05/05: Rights group condemns the Kangaroo trial of Maldives' Opposition Leader, 27 October 2005
  • PR/MAL/04/05: ACHR condemns 10 years imprisonment of MDP activist Jeniffer Latheef, 18 October 2005
  • PR/MAL/03/05: Over 350 political activists arrested in Maldives, 19 August 2005
  • PR/MAL/02/05: Maldives Foreign Minister urged to release opposition leaders, 13 August 2005
  • PR/MAL/01/05: President Gayoom urged to withdraw his proposals, 30 March 2005
  • REPORTS

     

    South Asia Human Rights Index 2008

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    SAARC Human Right 2006

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    Maldives: The Dark Side of Life, 30 March 2005

    This report highlights continued repression on the political opponents and human rights defenders even after the declaration of socalled general amnesty on 31 Decmber 2004 and rigged elections in January 2005. The report exposes the manipulative tricks of the President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom to appease an increasingly critical international community through his much vaunted proposals for constitutional reforms unveiled by the Strategic Communications Unit of the President's Office on 7 March 2005. ... Full report in PDF


    Maldives urged to undertake composite reforms for democracy, 13 August 2005

    In an hour long dialogue with Foreign Minister of Maldives, Dr Ahmed Saheed on 13 August 2005, ACHR welcomed the reforms being urged to expite composite reforms for demcoracy and to release Chairperson of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party, Mohamed Nasheed and other political detainees.


    BRIEFING PAPERS

    Maldives: Judiciary under the President's thumb, 28 February 2007

    ACHR REVIEW

    Review/151/07: Maldives: Journalists' prison, 24 January 2007 Review/140/06:Intervene for reform in Maldives, 08 November 2006
    Review/129/06: Democratic Maldives? 23 August 2006
    Review/126/06: Urgent: Intervene Against State Terror in Maldives, 24 May 2006
    Review/95/05: Maldives: The Kangaroo Courts of the Paradise Lost, 19 October 2005
    Review/86/05: Call for International Intervention against Maldives, 17 August 2005
    Review/76/05: Multi-party Democracy in South Asia: One Down, One More to Go, 8 June 2005
    Review/72/05: Maldives: Still Dark, 11 May 2005
    Review/CHR61/66/05: Maldives: The Dark Side of Life, 30 March 2005
    Review/34/04: Maldives: Emergency and tyranny in the Blue Lagoon, 18 August 2004
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