Min. Imran: Suspects should also be treated fairly

Home Minister Imran Abdulla has stated that people accused or suspected of a crime must also be treated fairly and with justice.

The minister stated so in a tweet sent out last night and called for the government to stick with the principles it had advocated for from the start and not to forget those principles. 

"A suspect must also be treated fairly and with justice. The people that should be detained, will be detained fairly, God willing," read the minister, who had spent a lengthy period in jail during the previous administration President Yameen.

Imran was speaking at a time when concerns had been boiling among the public regarding the failure of the state to detain any of the people involved in the case of murdered journalist Ahmed Rilwan. 

The Attorney-general had ordered the arrest of two intelligence officers of the Maldives Police Service involved in the case. But this request was not heeded by the police, who stated that sufficient evidence was not present to warrant a criminal case against them. The Commissioner of Police Mohamed Hameed had also tweeted that according to the law, it was only the Presidential Commission behind the investigation into the case that can order the arrest of the two officers.

President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih met with reporters yesterday and stated that the slow process was due to some institutions not being looped in on the information in the report of the investigation. 

The report by the Presidential Commission on Deaths and Disappearances showed that Ahmed Rilwan was murdered by an affiliate of Al Qaeda in the Maldives.