Human rights defenders came under attack, with threats from hard-line religious groups and the government shutting down a prominent human rights group. The Supreme Court’s chief justice and other judges were replaced. Two women became Supreme Court judges for the first time. There was some progress...

In this seven-point human rights agenda addressed to the presidential candidates in the Maldives, Amnesty International calls on the candidates to make clear their commitments to protect human rights if elected. Highlighting the current human rights situation in the Maldives based on Amnesty’s...

This document makes recommendations to 10 of the states to be reviewed during the 36th Session of the Universal Periodic Review, 2-13 November 2020: Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Honduras, Jamaica, Libya, Malawi, Maldives, Mongolia and the United States of America.

He was waiting for his flight back to Colombo in the departure lounge of the Velana International Airport in the Maldives when they arrested him; a police officer in plain clothes along with four others. Sri Lankan Lahiru Madushanka Manikkaudura (hereafter referred to as Lahiru Madushanka), who had...

In this oral statement, delivered at the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on 27 September 2018, Amnesty International urges the HRC to renew the mandate of the Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen and draws attention for the need for the Maldivian government to implement human rights pledges including by...

On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International calls on South Asian governments to put an end to their use of torture as a tool of law enforcement and ensure reparations for victims.

The Asian Forum for Human Rights and Development (FORUM-ASIA), the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (an FIDH-OMCT partnership), Front Line Defenders and Amnesty International call on the Government of the Maldives to immediately end the targeted harassment and intimidation...

Amnesty International and ISHR would like to express our deepest concern to this Council. Over the past year, several UN member states, including some members of this Council, have launched attacks of a personal nature against Special Procedure mandate holders and members of Commissions of...

The Maldives must immediately reinstate 56 lawyers who have been suspended from practicing on politically-motivated grounds, effectively cutting in half the number criminal lawyers practising in the country and a third of the total legal profession in the country, denying legal representation to...

Amnesty International and six other Maldivian and international organizations have written to the President of Maldives to express concern at his announcement that executions in the country would resume by the end of September and ask for his intervention to halt the implementation of the death...

Amnesty International urges the Maldives authorities to immediately grant the imprisoned former Vice President Ahmed Adeeb permission to travel abroad to seek the medical care that he urgently needs. According the Ahmed Adeeb’s legal team, authorities have since 2016 ignored repeated requests for...

The Maldives authorities have launched a troubling crackdown on peaceful protests and media workers ahead of a visit by the King of Saudi Arabia, Salman bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud, which was meant to take place this week. Although the King’s visit has been postponed indefinitely, Amnesty International...

The Maldives authorities must immediately halt plans to resume executions and instead impose a moratorium on the implementation of the death penalty with a view to its eventual abolition. Amnesty International has received reports that the resumption of executions could be imminent.