Parliament rejects motion over hour-long use of LRADs

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The ruling People’s National Congress (PNC) on Monday used its supermajority in the Parliament to reject an emergency motion filed by the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) over the alleged use of excessive force and the employment of Long-Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) or sound cannons to disperse protestors during last weekend’s anti-government rally in the Maldivian capital. The main opposition MDP’s ‘Lootuvaifi’