Man who was stripped and forced to walk on road now under Police custody

A man who was stripped and paraded through Majeedhee Magu on Saturday has now been brought under Police custody. 

A Maldives Police Service official said that they did not know the reason why the man was stripped and being paraded but that they were currently investigating the matter.

Traffic police officers saw him being paraded naked through the street and brought him under our custody, said the official. 

Eyewitnesses said that the man was handed over to the Police near the ATM machine by the Thalassaemia Centre. The witness said that the man had been wearing a board which proclaimed he was homosexual when he was turned over to the Police. The eyewitness also said that the man's hair had been cut off from the right side of his head. The men who were marching the naked man were shouting out that he was a homosexual and a child molester. 

The Police said that no such reports had been made to them officially as of yet.

We are investigating the matter, said the Police official. Some witnesses said that he had been marched naked from as far as the Galolhu Stadium. 

Haveeru Daily

Oct 23, 2006

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