Self-exiled blogger Hilath speaks at UN Human Rights Council

Maldivian journalist and blogger Ismail ‘Hilath’ Rasheed last week spoke at the United Nation’s Palace of Nations during the 21st session of the Human Rights Council (HRC).

Judicial statistics show 90 percent of those convicted for fornication are female

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CCHDC backs sex education in schools to combat rising sexual health problems

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Sheikhs obsessed with homosexuality

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Born Free and Equal: a new publication of the UN Human Rights Office

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Monday, May 25, 2015

Detention extended for two homosexual men

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The detention has been extended for two men homosexual men who were caught committing carnal acts in the shrubbery of Hulhumale’.

A police media official said that the Hulhumale’ Magistrate Court extended their detention by 10 days.

The suspects arrested in relation to the case are two Maldivian men aged 21 and 23.

They were arrested at around 20:45 on Saturday near the pump station in the east of Hulhumale’ while involved in carnal acts.

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Sunday, May 24, 2015

Two men arrested for engaging in homosexual relations

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Two Maldivian men were arrested from Hulhumalé for allegedly engaging in homosexual relations.

According to CNM, police arrested the pair around 8:45pm near the Hulhumalé pump station. The suspects were aged 21 and 23.

Sodomy is a criminal offence in the Maldives.

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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

IS implements death penalty on Maldivian citizen

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Islamic State (IS) group has implemented the death penalty on a Maldivian citizen who was working with the terrorist group.

Reports say the death penalty was implemented after an IS “Court” gave the death penalty. However, it is unclear as to why the death penalty was issued. 

In addition to the Maldivian citizen, two more foreigners who joined IS in Iraq and Syria were killed off after the court sentenced them to death.

The death penalty was implemented on all three of them in April and they were killed by pushing off a building.

The Maldivian, who faced the death penalty, reportedly joined IS group in late 2014. He reportedly travelled to Syria before crossing the border into Iraq.

IS group had earlier implemented the death penalty on several others by pushing them off buildings.

The first such case was reported in the media as when an elderly man was pushed off a building after being convicted of homosexuality.

This is the first instance in which IS had reportedly killed a Maldivian. However, several Maldivians who are fighting with IS in Syria had been killed before.

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