FILE PHOTO: Family members of disappeared Maldivian journalist Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla participate in an event to mark the “International Day of the Disappeared” in Colombo, Sri Lanka August 28, 2018. REUTERS/Dinuka Liyanawatte/File Photo
Source: Reuters
Ahmed Rilwan, a journalist for the Maldives Independent who wrote about corruption and Islamist militancy, was abducted in August 2014, a year after Yameen was elected.
Journalists and rights groups in the tropical archipelago say Rilwan’s criticism of the government and radical Islam could have made him a target.
Husnu Suood, the head of a Presidential Commission on Investigation of Murders and Enforced Disappearances, said his panel had received witness accounts from those directly involved in his murder.