Word: maafushi
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...write, the current prison population is 100, as a large number of prisoners have been released after the annual presidential pardon. Regarding the events of Sept. 19 and 20, your story fails to report the establishment of an independent commission to examine what took place in Maafushi prison, identify those responsible, and recommend reforms. The President has said that the findings of the report will be fully implemented and that those responsible [for the prison event] will be brought to justice. The report is expected shortly. There is no mention of the substantial reform program that the President has announced...
...there's a hot fury reserved for Gayoom himself, whom they and Amnesty International accuse of running an iron-fisted regime that controls the police, army, media, legislature and courts, tolerates no rival parties, virtually outlaws free speech and makes liberal use of torture. Inmates inside nearby Maafushi Prison claim they are the epicenter of the repression. "They torture and kill, then they hang the bodies from a bedsheet so it looks like suicide," says one 36-year-old prisoner speaking on a smuggled mobile phone, who says he has seen 12 inmates die this way. Ahmed Nazim...
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