Maldivas, Madives Independent, Inglês

OPINION | Two Adhadhu journalists are serving 10 and 15 days in prison.

Mohamed Shahzan for a question he put to President Mohamed Muizzu at last Monday’s press conference. Leevan Ali Nasir for reporting that the Criminal Court had issued a gag order.

Neither had legal representation. Both were sentenced behind closed doors.

These are the first contempt detentions of journalists in the Maldives’ post-2008 democratic period – and they were produced by an order that fails every limb of the constitutional test.

Maldives Journalists Association executive director Mohamed Junayd lays out the case: the gag order is unconstitutional, the qazf charge does not fit the facts, the investigation did not ask the questions it was obliged to ask, and the stakes for every accountability beat in this country are immediate.

Read the full op-ed: https://maldivesindependent.com/opinion/comment-a-line-drawn-against-the-maldivian-press-57b4

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