A sad day for democracy in the Maldives!
President Muizzu, using his party’s supermajority in parliament, has rushed through the so-called Media Control Bill—a law that signifies the end of press freedom in Maldives. The underhanded manner in which it was forced through parliament, despite protests by journalists, opposition parties, media organizations, civil society, and the public, lays bare the government’s disregard for Maldivians’ democratic rights.
The Maldivian Democratic Party (@MDPSecretariat ) will not yield to this affront to the people’s will. We will stand firm and fight for the social and political rights of all Maldivians. ✊🇲🇻
Thousands of pairs of shoes were lined up in a public square in Utrecht in the Netherlands, in a tribute to the more than 13,000 children killed in Israel’s war on Gaza ⤵️