Maldives - Religious intolerance to blame for leading blogger's detention for past week

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing detention of Ismail Kilath “Hilath” Rasheed, a leading journalist and blogger who was arrested on 14 December, four weeks after his blog was closed down on the government's orders. “One of his country's leading free speech advocates, Rasheed has been held for the past week without any information being made available about him,” Reporters Without Borders said. “All he did was start a debate about the issues of religious freedom and tolerance in (...)

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