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Residents, not guests: Ayla, Henley and the Pearl visa While Rasmalé dominates the headlines, a quieter project in Noonu atoll is selling something the Maldives has long resisted: the right for wealthy foreigners to stay. Project Ayla, the country’s first “sustainable township”, is rising on islands reclaimed from one of the atoll’s healthiest reefs. The Pearl Residence visa, designed with the “Passport King” Christian Kälin’s firm Henley & Partners, would let buyers live there. The tax on the first sale is one per cent. We look at how a resort lease became a special economic zone, why the facilities the law requires are missing from the developer’s filings, and what critics say about money laundering, sovereignty and who benefits. “We should not… continue converting portions of our territory into long-term private enclaves without a clear national consensus.” – Salma Fikry. Reported in collaboration with Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project:...

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News in Brief Tuesday, October 13 Facebook

When Navi Pillay addressed the Majlis in November 2011, the first UN human rights chief to visit the Maldives, she began with praise. Then she turned to flogging. Her call for a moratorium and her criticism of the constitutional rule that every citizen must be Muslim set off a backlash that spilled onto the streets. Last week Pillay was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The government has not acknowledged it. Fifteen years on, we went back through what she asked for. A domestic violence law passed within five months. But flogging is still in the law, the citizenship rule stands and the UN migrant workers convention remains the only core human rights treaty the Maldives has not ratified. Read the full story: https://maldivesindependent.com/politics/the-nobel-laureate-who-shook-the-maldives-in-2011-f272 Facebook

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News in Brief Monday, October 12 Facebook

Abdulla Ibrahim, better known as Abucha, was released on parole after about six years of an effective 25-year sentence. Days later, he was back in prison. The government says the Parole Board released him unlawfully. President Muizzu removed six members who approved it, and the homeland security minister has declined to name them. In this column, Mohamed Saif Fathih argues the problem is bigger than one release. Under Yameen, Solih and Muizzu, parole, medical release and presidential clemency have changed how court-imposed sentences are served – without consistent reasons, review or public accountability. He sets out what transparency could look like: a publicly named Board, published reasons for serious decisions, a statutory review process instead of ministerial intervention and annual parole statistics. Read: https://maldivesindependent.com/by-saif-fathih/what-abucha-exposes-about-maldives-parole-103b Column By Saif Fathih: Saif Fathih is a columnist at the Maldives Independent and a former member of the Malé City Council for Galolhu North. With his educational background in...

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