About Nihan Zafar
I am a dissident in Maldives where I have spent most of my life. For some this is a picture-perfect paradise; for others this is a hell-hole of human rights abuses and torture.
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August 6th, 2007
Maldives: Secret Haven for Pedophiles
Maldivian bloggers are expressing outrage over the prevalence of child sexual abuse in the country and the lack of firm action by the government to address the issue.
Maldives has been rocked by the news of four rapists receiving a light sentence after a judge decided that because the raped girl ...
July 16th, 2007
Maldives: Jamming to save the islands from submerging
In Greek mythology singing of the Sirens were so sweet and melodic that sailors were lured into the sea and met fateful deaths. On July 07, or the date known better as 07.07.07, music and melodies were used by Maldivians as they pondered about the fate that sea level rise ...
May 12th, 2007
RSF names Maldives police unit Star Force as predator of press freedom
Reporters without Borders (RSF) has listed Star Force, an elite unit of Maldives Police Service, as a predator of press freedom. The listing came weeks after a dead body fished out of water in capital Male’ made the public point their fingers at the police, whose torture techniques could be ...
April 20th, 2007
Maldives police accused of torture and killing a young man
Torture by Maldivian police on detainees has come under spotlight once again with the discovery of a badly beaten body from water in the morning of April 15 in the capital Male’. The young man Hussain Solah was under police custody a few days before his death. Even though the ...
February 26th, 2007
Maldives: Torture Techniques in Paradise
The blog Groundsix notes some of the torture techniques used on detainees and prisoners in the Maldives.
Putting in stocks: The victim is restrained with his or her ankles and wrists locked in tiny holes in a block of wood. The victim remains bent and does not have the use ...
February 7th, 2007
Press freedom watchdogs slam Maldives
Major international press freedom watchdogs have recently slammed the Maldives for the Indian Ocean country’s bad record in press freedom.
Reporters without Borders (RSF) has criticized the Maldives for violations of press freedom in its 2007 annual report.
Information Minister, Mohamed Nasheed, who in May 2006 met members of an international ...
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