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Sri Lanka: One Island Two Nations
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Thiranjala Weerasinghe sj.- One Island Two Nations
?????????????????????????????????????????????????Friday, May 5, 2017
SOLIDARITY PROTEST CALLING FOR JUSTICE FOR SLAIN MALDIVIAN BLOGGER, YAMEEN RASHEED IN COLOMBO
On Monday, May 8, 2017, activists, journalists and members of Sri Lankan
civil society will gather outside the Maldivian High Commission (25,
Melbourne Avenue, Colombo 4,) at 3.30 p.m., to protest against the
recent murder of Maldivian blogger Yameen Rasheed.
Yameen ran a satirical blog called The Daily Panic and was a vocal critic of government authoritarianism and religious fundamentalism. He also lead the #FindMoyameehaa campaign,
seeking justice for his best friend and investigative journalist Ahmed
Rilwan (a.k.a. Moyameehaa), who was abducted in 2014, and has been
missing since.
Yameen was brutally stabbed to death in the stairway of his apartment
building in Male, in the early hours of Sunday, April 23, 2017. He had
been receiving death threats from religious extremists since 2014, and
had lodged multiple complaints with the Maldives Police Service, who
failed to follow up on any of them.
Yameen’s father, Hussain Rasheed, in a recent visit to Sri Lanka,
appealed to the diplomatic community to pressure the Maldives government
into expediting investigations into the murder of his son, the
abduction of Ahmed Rilwan, and other politically and religiously
motivated violence and intimidation.
Sri Lankan civil society members have previously condemned the murder in a public statement.
Join us next Monday (8th) to demand #JusticeForYameen and other victims
of politically and religiously motivated violence in the Maldives.
ALL ARE WELCOME to join us in solidarity!