Expressing Religious Views is Risky in the Maldives

Expand The Maldivian flag flies at Jumhooree Maidan, or Independence Square, in Male, Maldives. © 2007 (WT-shared) Jpatokal/Wikipedia Ibrahim Ismail, the chairman of Mandhu College in the Maldives and a former lawmaker, says he believes in debate rooted in facts and backed by citations, including over religion. But Ismail, better known as Ibra, recently discovered the potential danger of such debate. On January 7, 2019, a magistrate in Naifuri, an island in northern Maldives, sentenced a 25-year-old woman to death by stoning on charges of adultery. Although the Maldives Supreme Court overturned…

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