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PRISON IN MALDIVES - PART: V
 
INMATES WERE SHOT FROM BEHIND
In this fashion, torture was made an ordinary harmless activity that happened inside Maldivian jails. People thus have been beaten to death in these jails. When they shot prisoners from behind (20th September 2003) I was present in jail. I even witnessed the scene when, after the shooting incident inmates were man-handled, kept face down on the ground and guards jumped up and down and ran on the backs of those inmates. I saw them doing this. I believe, this time, when in 2001 I was arrested and sentenced for 15 years, completely against the constitution and the rule of Law. And although they had taken statements from me by confining me to a cell in Dhoonidhoo and as I had signed those statements because I could not endure the different kinds of torture I was subjected to, I believe these confessions were obtained through completely illegal ways and methods.
 
 
THERE IS NO WAY I CAN BE CLASSIFIED AS A LAW BREAKER OR A CRIMINAL

And it is my belief that in spite of the fact that even if I had claimed for assistance from amnesty International via the net, saying that five of us were planning to form a political party, I have not acted unlawfully. And even if I had claimed that Maumoon cannot be a better leader than Ibrahim Nasir, or, even if I had claimed that we will only know what kind of ruler Maumoon is when he concludes his term of rule, that I have acted outside the law. Furthermore, even if I had written in an e-mail that Maumoon is a cruel ruler, any person reading the e-mail, would easily understand that I had not broken the law or was disrespectable towards the constitution. As the discussions and constitution were carried out as an activity focused on the future formation of a political party, and furthermore as the formation of political parties is allowed in the Maldivian Constitution, everyone will agree that there is no way I can be classified as a lawbreaker or criminal. Therefore I believe that I am not a criminal and furthermore I believe that my continued detention is against all established Laws and regulation.

 

 
 
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