Reporters Without Borders deplores the continuing persecution of the opposition television station Raajje TV. In the latest development, the supreme court has told the police to investigate Raajje TV’s CEO and news department chief over a supposedly “offensive” report about the judicial system that the station broadcast on 19 October.
“Not only is the accusation spurious but the investigation has been assigned to the police, which has no competence in such a matter,” Reporters Without Borders said. “As the Maldives Media Council, the Maldives Broadcasting Commission and the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party have all said, such an investigation is the Council’s responsibility.”
“The police should concentrate on identifying and arresting the perpetrators and instigators of the arson attackthat gutted the station’s premises on 7 October instead of worrying about the quality of its programs.
“This unconstitutional order follows a failure on the part of the police to protect Raajje TV’s headquarters although they had been informed about the threats it had received, and it shows that the authorities are endorsing an offensive designed to silence Raajje TV by any means necessary.”
Reporters Without Borders added: “Ever since a change of government in February 2012, Raajje TV has been banned from the president’s news conferences and has been denied police protection during demonstrations. We remind the government that it has a duty of guarantee freedom of information and media independence.”
Raajje TV news department chief Ibrahim Asward Waheed told Reporters Without Borders that the station has received new threats, in which it is warned that it could be target of another physical attack.
“We are all very worried,” he said. “When I reported these threats to the authorities and requested additional police protection, they suggested that I hire private security guards.” The police inaction during the 7 October arson attack has been widely criticized.
The police investigation into Waheed and CEO Yamin Rasheed was ordered in response to a program that likened the judicial system to the biblical city of Sodom. Rasheed is also to be questioned about the station’s coverage of a sex scandal allegedly involving a judge.
In a press release on 25 October, the Maldives Media Council said a police investigation into such a matter could create “fear and discomfort” in the media and restrict media freedom. Responsibility for such an investigation lay with the council and the Maldives Broadcasting Commission, the release added.
The Maldivian Democratic Party said the police investigation was unconstitutional and asked the supreme court to rescind its order.
The supreme court also asked the Maldives Broadcasting Commission to investigate the case but gave it only ten days to deliver its findings, although the law allows 60 days for an investigation so that the media concerned has time to defend itself.OCTOBER 18, DAY OF REMEMBRANCE FOR THE VICTIMS OF KLEPTOCRATIC REGIMES
EU practices double standards in civil rights. It’s freakish for EU to interfere in the civil rights of foreigners, but condone the abuse of my civil rights, a citizen of EU! EU should get its own house in order and quit lecturing others.
It’s been now three years since the freakish Greek government stole my life, my computer, and my files. Nobody cares, nobody gives a damn! I have done absolutely nothing, and I am being persecuted by the Greek government without any reason. This is against all rules of civil society and treaties that Greece has signed.
On October 18, 2010, a gang of six brutal policemen of the violent Greek Cyber Crime Unit (CCU) broke into my home in Athens and stole my computer, software, files, documents, and personal data.
The policechimps locked me in jail for a night, they humiliated me with handcuffs, fingerprints, mug shots, and lies, leaked false information to the media parrots, and the fucking Greek government initiated sham ex-officio court proceedings for a stack of stupid fictitious freakish charges!
There was neither pillow nor toilet facility in my jail cell. I had to urinate in a bottle! I, a 68 years old with high blood pressure, was not allowed to keep my hypertension pills with me. There was neither toilet paper nor soap in the whole CCU jail.
GREECE, A FAILED STATE, THE BLACK SHEEP OF FOURTH REICH, THE PARIAH OF OCCIDENT, ENEMY OF BLOGOSPHERE
Ex-officio law suit, autepageltos αυτεπαγγελτος, the most dreadful word in justice, means the state sues somebody without involvement of the accuser. This terrible scheme has been used by the freakish Greek government to persecute me. Mariliza Xenogiannakopoulou, Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, sued me, and she wouldn’t show up in court, because the state took over her position!
At the ex-officio law suit, the accuser just hits and runs! This hit-and-run justice is the most disgusting kangaroo justice on Earth. In all civilized nations, the accused is in a position to face his accuser eyeball to eyeball, but not in Greece, a failed state. The fucking accuser slings false accusations against you, the freakish state takes over, the accuser disappears from the kangaroo court, and the trial is postponed infinite times! venitis@gmail.com, http://themostsearched.blogspot.com
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