Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders Annual Report 2006 - Maldives

Release of Ms. Jennifer Latheef79

Ms. Jennifer Latheef, a photographer and journalist for the daily newspaper Minivan and a human rights activist, was released thanks to a presidential pardon on August 16, 2006.

She had been sentenced on October 18, 2005 to ten years' imprisonment for "terrorist acts" and accused of throwing a stone on a police officer on September 20, 2003 during a protest following the death by torture of five prisoners of conscience. Ms. Latheef always denied the accusations held against her.


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79. See Annual Report 2005.

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