Word: maafushi
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Dates: during 2003-2003
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...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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