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Criminal Court issues 15-day remand for 3 arrested over terror attack
Nafaahath Ibrahim
Mujaz Ahmed, 21 (L), Adhuham Rasheed, 26 (M) and Thahmeen Ahmed 32. PHOTO: POLICE
Nafaahath Ibrahim
09 May 2021, MVT 21:36
The Criminal Court on Sunday remanded three suspects arrested in connection to the terror attack against former President and Parliament Speaker Mohamed Nasheed, for a period of 15 days.
Police made the first two, Mujaz Ahmed, 21 and Thahmeen Ahmed 32, in connection to the attack on May 8. The third person, Adhuham Rasheed, 26 was arrested on May 9.
The Criminal Court came to this decision on the basis that all three posed danger to the public if they remain loose.
The May 6 Incident and the Roots of Maldives’ Violent Politics The May 6 attempt on the life of former President Nasheed
COLOMBO: The Maldives, which is an Indian Ocean archipelago, is a tiny country of only 530,000 people. Its politics is dominated by a few elite families, many of whom are related to each other. Yet, it is intensely faction-ridden and violence-prone, to boot.
Added to the combustible mixture is Islamic radicalism. According to the US State Department, an estimated 200 Maldivians, were fighting in Syria and Iraq in 2019, making their country the world’s second largest supplier of foreign fighters per capita, after Tunisia.