Title:	Maldives 2017 human rights report
Authors:	U.S. Mission to Maldives
Issue Date:	2017
Publisher:	U.S. Mission to Maldives
Citation:	U.S. Mission to Maldives. (2017). Maldives 2017 human rights report. U.S. Mission to Maldives. 1-33.
Description:	The Republic of Maldives is a multiparty constitutional democracy. Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom won the presidential election in 2013, and most international observers and the local nongovernmental organization (NGO) Transparency Maldives (TM) determined it to be a credible and transparent election. Parliamentary elections held in 2014 were well administered and transparent according to TM, although there were credible reports of vote buying. Civilian authorities maintained effective control over the security forces. The most significant human rights issues included the deterioration of democratic governance, as the executive branch increased its interference in legislative and judicial affairs; a politicized and inefficient judiciary; and political prisoners. The government severely restricted freedom of expression, including freedom of the press, by using an antidefamation law to silence dissenting voices and targeted harassment and arbitrary detention of journalists. The government restricted the freedoms of assembly and association, and freedom of religion. Same-sex sexual conduct is criminalized. The government did not take steps to prosecute and punish police and military officers who committed abuses, and impunity for such abuses remained prevalent.
URI:	http://saruna.mnu.edu.mv/jspui/handle/123456789/15180
Appears in Collections:	ސިޔާސީ ޢިލްމު Political Science

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