Maldives police raid newsroom after documentary broadcast
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Police in the Maldives have raided the office of one of the country’s leading news websites shortly after a television documentary was broadcast that accused the country’s president of corruption, money laundering and misrule.
Zaheena Rasheed, editor of Maldives Independent, said Thursday that her offices were raided by the police who produced a court warrant over an alleged “conspiracy to topple the government.”
Police took away the security camera recordings and the computer hard drives in the raid on Wednesday.
“Given that it came just hours after the Al Jazeera documentary was broadcast, it was aimed at harassing us,” Rasheed said.