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Below are some of the key actions that you are required to take, at the behest of the People, immediately and unconditionally, in consistency with the pledges you made in your speech on the 9^th of June 2004.

1. You must immediately halt the illicit activities of Cabinet Ministers, especially your Brothers Hameed and Yameen and Senior Public Figures such as Atoll Chiefs and Island Chiefs from lobbying against the reforms you advocated; and from influencing the Legislative proceeding by lobbying, to appoint a Government minister to the chair of the Upper House Sessions

2. You must relieve your brothers Hameed and Yameen of all their duties and official capacities and submit them to a Court of Justice and report the proceedings under the supervision of a Parliamentary Oversight Committee.

3. Threats and Intimidation to apprehend Reformists must come to an end; there shall be no arbitrary arrests.

4. You must release all Prisoners of Conscience and Political Prisoners
(Whose names explicated herein are only a few of which the Dhivehi Observer has confirmed the status of: Fathimath Nisreen, Ibrahim Didi, Ibrahim Fareed, Mohamed Zaki, Naushad Waheed)

5. You must lift the ban on dissident websites/media such as Dhivehi Observer and Maldives Culture amongst other independent web-press organisations.

6. You must cease your repeated equivocations to the International Community/Non-Governmental Organisations/ Media Corporations (including BBC), providing them with false postulations of having ratified the United Nations’ Declaration on Human Rights.

We will assess and report the situation to all Maldivians and the International Community on the degree of compliance, once these actions have been taken.

Respectfully,

signed

Ahmed Shafeeq Ibrahim Moosa
Editor in Chief - Dhivehi Observer News Website
www.dhivehiobserver.com Email: asmoosa@gmail.com Fax: + 44 8080208 3494

cc: Foreign & Commonwealth Office UK, Amnesty International, UN, Rt. Hon. Robert Key MP - All Party Parliamentary Committee on Maldives , Rt. Hon. Calude Moraes, Member of European Parliament, London, Friends of Maldives UK, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN, The Guardian, TIME

References:

i. Actions: To execute the powers granted to the Chief Execute, the Commander-in-Chief of the National Security Services, the Chief of the Judicature, the power to appoint/dismiss the Chair of the Parliament and appointment/dissolution of the Cabinet Ministers in the course of giving effect to the requests made.

ii. Behest of the People: The written and spoken utterances of the Citizens of Maldives (eligible and able to vote as per the Constitution) addressed to The Chief Executive, Cabinet Ministers, Members of Parliament, Opposition Political factions, Dissident activists, Printed/web-casted/telecasted or broadcasted media; with regard to the requests made.

iii. Reformists: Political Activists at home and abroad who promotes/disseminates thoughts, utterances and publications either by themselves or by a political faction; relating to the Reformation of the Government Sectors, the Institutions of Democracy and the Constitution of the Maldives, without undermining the Law and Constitution.

iv. (Political)/Prisoners of Conscience: Citizens of Maldives who are apprehended (and confined to their residences) and/or sentenced to serve a Prison sentence (either in State Penitentiaries or Abolishment camps in remote islands) for exercising their Rights to the Freedom of Expression, Freedom of Assembly and Freedom of Association (Article 25 through 27, Chapter II, of the Constitution of Maldives)

v. Dissident websites/media: All material, printed, web/broad/tele-casted through electronic mail, mail service, Web-servers (mirrors inclusive), satellite transmissions and radio signals; attributable to (iii) and (iv)