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News Archive November 2002 - January 2003 Luthfee Letters part 10 Arrest and detention practices of the Maldive NSS police 'The matter under investigation this time was that I had slandered the police, and defamed their reputation, and I was an anti-government person'...[more] Luthfee letters part 9 Ibrahim Luthfee's wife sexually harassed by NSS police and fanditha man 'He tried to make her understand that I had no future left, my business had collapsed, and there was no way I could start again. He told my wife there was no way of getting a guarantee or loan from a bank or anywhere else. Those who criticise the police will be squashed'...[more] Luthfee Letters part 8 The Horrors of Maafushi prison in Maldives 'Sometimes when the police beat up prisoners, they hit them on their spine. I saw the police hit prisoners on their eyes and ears very hard. If any of these things were reported to the chief of the prison 30 - 50 police officers would come and wake up the inmates in that block. They will march all the prisoners out of the block and pull out the bedsheets, pillows, clothes, soap and even the water they keep for drinking'...[more] Luthfee Letters Part 7 Magistrate and court administration staff join NSS harassment campaign 'Your honour, see for yourself. This is how the police behave. This is a court proceeding. This is the extent they go to, even here! So what would it be like in the police station? Please imagine how investigations would be carried out in the police station'...[more] Luthfee letters part 6 Upset mothers and crying policeman prompt return to Maafushi prison 'You'll find out. You don't understand your size, so this time we'll teach you what your size really is. We'll make sure you are sentenced over your other court case. But these matters are also an issue. We'll make sure you get a sentence over this, as well'...[more]
'I told the court that I had irrefutable evidence, and yet the police were falsifying government records and giving false testimony in this court case against me' Luthfee Letters part 5...[more]  LinksMedia sanitised for the West From www.maldivesroyalfamily.com 'the hatred of the West at all levels is phenomenal. Sympathy for terrorists such as Osama bin Laden and despots such as Saddam Hussain is almost universal. For obvious reasons, such sentiments are carefully concealed'...[more] ' International Children's Digital Library Educational site supplying children's literature via Internet...[more] Maldive Islands Vanishing? 'the media willingly trotted out the usual IPCC inspired misleading scaremongering about threats from rising sea levels. Other Pacific nations inhabiting atolls trot out the same line all trying to get western sympathy and aid. Good work if you can get it I suppose'...[more] Testing the Waters A Report on Sea Levels 'These processes not only are believed to be sufficient to offset the rise in sea level predicted from ocean warming, but could result in falling sea level of up to 7 mm per year'...[more] 'Rent your own cell' while the havaru continues NSS ignores Presidential and Court instructions
'Abdullah Rasheed said loudly that I should not be sent home under any circumstances, and that I was not brought Malé to be sent home. He said I must be sent to Maafushi island'...[more]
Hulhangu: Black magic mango woman — training for the bigtime 'I realise, like all prospective presidential candidates, that matrimony has definite attractions. After all, how can any great man cope with his official duties if there is no wife to tell him what to do?'...[more] Correction Our recent report on Maafushi island prison, south of Malé, gave details of an attempt to hide two thirds of the 98 inmates of C Block from an official prison inspection by senior government officials. Near the end of the report, it was mentioned that a Sandhaanu prisoner, Mohamed Zaki, was receiving special privileges. Maldives Culture has received reliable information that although Zaki has been separated from the Sandhaanu prisoners, his living conditions are the same as other inmates. The editors apologise to Mohamed Zaki for this mistake.
The Washington Times Maldives Report 'The question of democracy... Engendering change in a male world... Fostering new partnerships for development'...[more] Muslimedia International 'Maldive Muslims sentenced to life imprisonment for criticising president Abdul Gayoom'...[more]
Beyond 2003 a window of opportunity for Maldives 'For Gayyoom, it is no longer feasible to go on spreading lies within the corridors of power by declaring the active presence of extremist elements among those interested in the formation of political parties'...[more] To see, or not to see? Prison numbers hidden from new deputy Home Minister during Maafushi island inspection
Fanditha flies in Pigeon power seals Victory win
New links from www.maldivesroyalfamily.com
an incident from Maldives' recent past United States - Maldives Territorial Dispute 'The United States aircraft always flew above the range of the Maldives National Security Service artillery'...[more] China and the Maldives in Antiquity 'In the seventh year of the second reign of the Hilaaly King Dhammaru Veeru, the Maldive King sent an ambassador to the court the Emperor in Nanjing'...[more]
'The National Security Service of the Republic of Maldives have taken delivery of a new Hamilton Jet powered landing craft'...[more] Israel and the Maldives 'This made the Maldives the first Muslim country to recognise the State of Israel and establish diplomatic relations at ambassadorial level'...[more] July 2002 - October 2002 |
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Maldives Culture is an independent internet magazine of Maldivian cultural issues.
Editors and translators: Michael O'Shea and Fareesha Abdulla, Australia
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