MALÉ: A liberal blogger, Yameen Rasheed, was stabbed to death in the politically restive Maldivian capital Male, his family members and colleagues said Sunday. He was 29.

DDCom, formed by former President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih in 2018 to probe unsolved murders, disappearances, and abductions under the previous government, has not released its full investigative reports ...

We are left with nothing,” said Aishath Rasheed, sister of Yameen Rasheed. Blogger Yameen Rasheed was slain in his residence in the capital Male’ on 23 April 2017.

The signatories expressed concern that the criminal court recently dropped charges against the accused in the murders of journalist Ahmed Rilwan and blogger Yameen Rasheed. This statement was ...

Maldives Journalists Association (MJA), Transparency Maldives, Association for Democracy in the Maldives (ADM), International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), Human Rights Watch and Reporters Without ...

We are deeply concerned that the criminal court, on 22 November 2023, dropped charges against the accused in the murders of journalist Ahmed Rilwan and blogger Yameen Rasheed.

The commission’s investigations into some of these crimes, including the 2014 disappearance of a journalist, Ahmed Rilwan and 2017 murder of a blogger, Yameen Rasheed, faced delays, judicial ...

Yameen Rasheed. AP Father of slain Maldivian blogger Yameen Rasheed has appealed to the international community to intervene in the probe into his son’s recent death.

Illustration: Sreejith R. Kumar It was just in August that Abdulla Yameen confirmed he would run for President in the 2023 Maldives elections, five years after he was unseated from office.

Since 2012, and particularly during the presidency of Abdulla Yameen from 2013 to 2018, threats and violence against prominent Maldivian activists, politicians, and journalists escalated.

CHENNAI: A criminal court has convicted two persons in connection with the murder of Maldives blogger Yameen Rasheed (29) on April 23, 2017. There were six accused in the case.

A similar case occurred in the year 2017 when Yameen Rasheed who was known for his sarcastic takes on politicians was found dead with 34 stab wounds in Male.