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Archive 21 - 25th Oct 2004
Monday 25 October 2004
Gayyoom threatens Maldives
with another State
of Emergency
Since
the
announcement of tomorrow's visit by Commonwealth Secretary
General Don
McKinnon to the Maldives, locals have been organising a
peaceful demonstration, hoping that Gayyoom will hesitate to use his
NSS against the people
while McKinnon is in the
country. Gayyoom's public threat of another State of Emergency is
directly linked to the planned opposition
gathering.
read more
reporters without borders
Cyber-dissident
Fathimath Nisreen banished again
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release
from prison today of cyber-dissident Fathimath
Nisreen, who was detained on 13 August in the
wake of a pro-democracy rally, but condemned as
"unacceptable" her announced transfer within a
few days to Feeail island south of the capital
to resume serving a five-year sentence of
"banishment."
read more
Minivan
Radio
broadcasts spread hatred and contempt,
claims Gayyoom
Over the last six years Gayyoom had enjoyed an average budgeted expenditure each day of over Rf419,000 or
US$32,000. (The daily wage rate for a relatively well-paid Maldivian is Rf100 or
US$7.82, based on monthy pay of Rf3,000.)
This year, 2004, Gayyoom has a personal budget of RF186 million or US$14.6 million. This means his daily expenditure is nearly RF510,000 or
US$40,000.
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more
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Sunday 24 October
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Regional Development Project 1- Report
Business
Development Workshop.
Gan, Addu Atoll
27th-29th March 2001
List of Donors to the Maldives - Capital
Investments
Check out the "Atoll
Vote Projects"!
Public Sector Investments Allocated Programmes
2004
Public Sector Investments Unallocated Programmes
2004
Saturday 23 October
2004
Newly Formed Maldives Police Sinks to
Gayyoom's Dirty Politics
The Powers that be in police had ordered not
to be serious in Crime related matters but to concentrate more in
arresting reformers and stop gatherings etc. As a result the public is
confused as to what needs to be done after a robber is caught. Do you hand
over the thief to the police or do you take justice into your own hands?
read more
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Friday 22 October 2004
News
Maldives names defence minister as envoy to
India
New Delhi,
Oct 22 (IANS) The Maldives has appointed
Minister of State for Defence and National
Security Abdul Sattar Adam as its first high
commissioner to India.
India's external affairs ministry Friday said it
had been informed about Adam's appointment and
that he was expected to take up his post
shortly.
The Maldives high commission in Delhi will be
the fourth diplomatic mission abroad of the
Indian Ocean atoll nation with a population of
300,000, after Sri Lanka, Britain and the UN.
Adam was in the centre of a political storm in
August when he ordered his National Security
Service personnel to disperse by force
demonstrators in the capital Male demanding
democratic reforms.
President Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom had clamped
emergency following the incident but has since
lifted it.
By Indo-Asian News Service
A
matter of pride:
Compensating the
victims of torture
in Maldives
There
is also the matter
of compensation to
the victims whose
lives have been
ruined by criminal
orders from
Gayyoom, Isthafa
Manik, Ilyas
Ibrahim and senior
NSS officers.
It would be
unfair to expect
that the Maldives
treasury, which
has been looted by
Gayyoom and his
associates, should
also have to bear
the cost of this
compensation. It
should be paid by
the same people
who ordered the
torture.
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more
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Thursday
21 October 2004
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Submission of the
Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) to
the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group's
meeting, 25th September 2004
CHRI brings
to the attention of CMAG the lack of democracy,
rule of law and respect for human rights in the
Maldives, a situation that clearly contravenes
the Harare Principles.
In particular, we draw attention to recent
events in Male', the capital of the Maldives. On
13 August, 5,000 - 10,000 people gathered
peacefully outside the national police head
quarters demanding the release of political
detainees and democratic change. In response,
the government used police force to disperse
activists and has declared a state of emergency.
Around two hundred pro-democracy activists have
been arrested, including high-profile members of
the Special Majlis (citizens assembly). There
are concerns for the health and safety of those
detained amidst reports of beatings and torture.
At the time of writing some of those arrested
remained incommunicado.
read more
The
reasons for
torture in
Maldives
When Gayyoom met Adam Mynott from the BBC after the September 2003 riots in
Male', he privately assured
Mynott that he knew nothing about the torture occurring in his jails. This was a bare-faced lie. Gayyoom visits the NSS HQ early every morning when he is in
Male', and he isn't there to discuss the breakfast menu. With his fellow senior officers, he decides who will be arrested and tortured and how it will be done.
read more
see
also: America's tortuous road to Abu Ghraib
Editorial
Time for Gayyoom to prepare his own cell
Countries ruled by families of gangsters provide
a breeding ground for despair and terrorism. Indhira Gandhi and her son Sanjay thought the fanatical Sikh separatists were a
joke; in the 1980s the US thought Saddam was an
ally; and the CIA and Saudi royal family thought Osama Bin Laden could be useful too. The
civilised world is learning the hard
way that today's joke is
tomorrow's nightmare.
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more
NSS
police place
illegal notices on
reformists'
house doors
Political
detainee Ibrahim
Ismail has been
placed under house
arrest after being
imprisoned,
tortured and
poisoned in
Dhoonidhoo jail
for 68 days
without any
charges being
laid. Under
Maldives law, the
public notice of
his house arrest
is invalid and the
NSS are acting in
breach of the
criminal code and
presidential
decrees regarding
arrest procedures.
Below is a
translation of the
illegal notice.
Scroll down for
the original
Dhivehi version. Similar notices have been
placed in other houses as well.
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Maldives leader dismisses rights critics
MALE, Oct 20 (Reuters) - Beset by accusations of endemic human
rights abuses in his Indian Ocean resort nation, Maldives President
Maumoon Abdul Gayyoom says his critics should check their facts
before accusing his regime of systematic torture.
read more on Reuters
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News in brief
Commonwealth Secretary General to visit Maldives on 26th October
Commonwealth Secretary General Don McKinnon will
visit Maldives on October 26. This visit will be of significant
importance to the reform process and it is believed that he will be
spending 2 days in the Maldives prior to visiting India.
Commonwealth Secretary General has been quite concerned about the
situation in the Maldives and a Commonwealth Parliamentarian Group
was in Maldives this week who met with several
reformists who were being held in Gayyoom's torture chambers in
Dhoonidhoo and Maafushi Island.
It is encouraging to observe Commonwealth playing an
active role in bringing peace, freedom and democracy to member
nations.
It will be a great opportunity to express our views
to the wider-world. DO has information that local groups are now
looking into organising a pro-democracy demonstration on the day of
his arrival.
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