Joint letter to Kutti Nasheed from Article 19, International Federation of Journalists, International Media Support, Reporters without Boarders, South Asia Media Commission
The Mission expresses its continuing concern about the detention and health of Abdulla 'Fahala' Saeed, a Minivan journalist, who received a life sentence for alleged drug possession and trafficking on 19 April 2006. According to his family, he is physically and psychologically debilitated after more than one year of detention. We see little improvement in relation to cases of legal harassment since May 2006 and, although some individual cases have been addressed, the ongoing targeting of media practitioners demonstrates a lack of serious commitment by the government to uphold and promote press freedom. more
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