A video posted by state media showed several men tearing a statue off a plinth
Officials said Gayoom, 80, and the other political prisoners were taken back to the Maafushi prison island...
Voter turnout was 89.2%, the Elections Commission said, adding the official results would be released...
A candidate must secure 50% of the vote to win outright, failing which there would be a run off three...
Yameen's administration made defamation a crime in 2016, a move government critics say was aimed...
The Maldives’ economy has grown by an average of 6% a year for the last five years, buoyed by tourism...
Independent reporting in the Maldives is difficult and Yameen, who has ruled since winning a controversial...
Maldivian authorities have already turned down requests by international media to cover the...
Can the small Muslim nation refer Myanmar to the International Criminal Court?
The European Union in July warned of possible sanctions ranging from travel bans to asset freezes against...
The government has repeatedly denied claims of corruption
Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, who is backed by the archipelago nation's four main opposition groups, flew...
The European Union and the United States have also expressed concern over the crackdown
India and China are going head to head in the Maldives, the Indian Ocean island chain where Beijing is...
The opposition lost the last elections in 2013 in controversial circumstances
Nearly 1.39 million tourists visited the Maldives, a nation of 1,192 tiny coral islands scatted across...
The move comes ahead of a presidential election set for September 23 at which Yameen will seek a second...
A key problem now is that there is little money for mangrove regeneration and conservation, though all...
The island chain has faced upheavals since February
Mohamed Nasheed was convicted of terrorism in 2015 in a case widely decried by rights groups as politically...
Rights group Amnesty International said in a statement the convictions are politically motivated and...
