Open letter to the President & the Government of the Maldives

I write this to you, sir, as a visible public figure of a growing political movement in the Maldives. It is a movement for the establishment of a secular democracy in the Maldives. When activist, blogger and my friend Yameen Rasheed was brutally and mercilessly murdered at his home in the early hours of last…

Police raids known Islamist Extremists holdouts and make arrests on Monday night for bomb suspicion

In the wake of the murder of my friend and fellow blogger/activist Yameen Rasheed the Maldives Police Service had conducted operations on Monday night and made arrests of certain individuals. Local media have since reported that the individuals were arrested for an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) bomb plot in the capital city of Male'. Police…