@farishussain@p3st@__almaas__ The problem is this also has to go to court to test. Which is already so damn inefficent.
There needs to be a remedy for the aggrieved to find recourse that doesn't take 3 years and also can be applied for everyone equally.
No express route for politicians in power.
@farishussain@p3st@__almaas__ RTI Act also talks about proactive disclosure and public interest similar to this clause in (c) but the reality is far from it.
The whole defamation act can be very easily weaponize against dissent.
@farishussain@p3st@__almaas__ The top is a bit of a gag at how much of an overreach the bill can be weaponize to be.
But the text of the bill reads to me like it was a rush job by people that have not thought this through on how it can be applied even.
Implementation passed on to a regulation.
5 million tree program is a smoke screen to hide #MvTreeGrab , trees/coconut palms are uprooted to landscape the reclaimed islands for settlers.
This gov scaled up environmental destruction.
How many of the trees planted via this initiative survived? Who’s keeping those stats?
The “Aburu Bill” proposed today appears to be an attempt to criminalise the exposure of corruption and wrongdoing by those in positions of authority.
Under the proposed law, information an official declares confidential could become a criminal offence to disclose, regardless of its relevance to the public or national interest.
Even hashtags, cartoons, photographs or signs deemed harmful to any official’s aburu-fulhu could potentially be criminalised.
And this wouldn’t just apply to registered media. It would extend to blogs, social media users and ordinary individuals.
In other words, protecting the reputation of those in power could take precedence over the public’s right to know.
And the best part? The bill is sponsored by none other than the most aburu-ful MP himself, Mohamed Ismail.
@ERA_Maldives has clarified that Villimale' banyan tree which @WAMCOmv & @PoliceMv r actively involved in felling is a PROTECTED tree.
What these institutions r doing is unlawful.
This is absolutely unacceptable. How is MPS able to act outside the law in broad daylight like this?
So @MMuizzu takes a show of hands from a few people at a meeting in Vilimalé, and suddenly that's the law????
Police are telling residents MCC gave permission. We didn't. Police cordened the area, people in civilian clothes showed up to cut the tree, and now we're left asking who authorised any of this. We've asked our departments and no such document has been given.
And who are we supposed to report the police to? The police?
This is state sponsored environmental destruction nothing less..
To @ekkomv who climbed that tree to stop them, you have my utmost respect. That's what actually standing up for your city looks like!
Police are currently trying to bring down Ibrahim Niyaz, an environmental activist, who has climbed a banyan tree near Villimale watersports to stop it being cut down. #HappeningNow