Civil Court orders Police to bring Shafeeg to court hearings

Friday, June 1st, 2012

Civil Court has ordered the Police to bring the historian Ahmed Shafeeq, who is under trial by the court for allegedly slandering former President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, to the court hearings,

Former President Gayoom filed the law suit against Ahmed Shafeeg for allegedly writing “completely untrue, unfounded and politically-motivated slander” in his book “A Day in the Life of Ahmed Shafeeg”.

Ahmed Shafeeq is a prominent writer and a historian. He was held in solitary confinement from 21 April 1995 for 83 days without charge. About 50 diaries comprising notebooks of various sizes were confiscated by the then government at the time of his arrest.

“A Day in the Life of Ahmed Shafeeg” is based on a statement Ahmed Shafeeg wrote in September 2009, in support of his application to the Human Rights Commission of Maldives to investigate the events that led to his arrest and sufferings.

Reader Comments

  1. Hasn’t this old Dictator done enough damage to Maldives and its citizens enough.
    When will the people rise up and face the dictator and show him what happened to Mubarak.
    Historians and Linguistic people should be protected by the state for any Democracy to thrive.
    Lets all rise up and smell the coffee before the old dictator again ruins the country after a little limited freedom is established.

    Posted by Devotedmaldivian | June 3, 2012, 8:00 am

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