Maldives state ready to kill Humam, and a way of life

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIbF7-Z9p4JM3QN5-pzK4WmBQ4YPUXasZgRl2bh3ZGAK1iJQkrnPVWtwZNj8XAPTHd9r92zAiL1uNyCjLLrbqItphDYnp58kLDI7he4NcfAxwlfsPxVryAuLxonQlcsnNHdvJ-8KMceZc/s1600/Humam+being+brought+to+court+Maldives.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Humam being brought to court" border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIbF7-Z9p4JM3QN5-pzK4WmBQ4YPUXasZgRl2bh3ZGAK1iJQkrnPVWtwZNj8XAPTHd9r92zAiL1uNyCjLLrbqItphDYnp58kLDI7he4NcfAxwlfsPxVryAuLxonQlcsnNHdvJ-8KMceZc/s400/Humam+being+brought+to+court+Maldives.jpg" title="Humam being brought to court" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Humam being brought to court</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">In the early hours of the morning on the 19th day of Ramadan, as most of the country slept, the Maldives Supreme Court upheld the verdict by lower courts to kill <a href="http://maldivesindependent.com/feature-comment/no-sympathy-for-people-like-us-milestones-in-the-life-of-a-maldivian-death-row-prisoner-123628" target="_blank">Hussein Humam Ahmed</a>. The 22-year-old man was convicted of killing MP Dr Afrasheem Ali on 2 October 2012 in <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_TT83MGbKM1d00yU1FtTmx6bkE/view" target="_blank">a trial laden with irregularities</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Regulations introduced recently say the sentence must be carried out within 30 days. Umar Naseer, Home Minister until a sudden resignation on Tuesday this week, has said the State is now ready to <a href="http://maldivesindependent.com/politics/maldives-to-execute-death-row-inmates-by-hanging-124872" target="_blank">kill by hanging</a> - the only thing missing was someone’s neck to put the noose around and squeeze the life out of. The Supreme Court delivered that last night in the shape of Humam.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Humam’s killing will be the <a href="http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=47680#.V2zOM1dlfAM" target="_blank">first in the Maldives since 1953</a>, even then a rare thing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Supreme Court’s decision is political in another way. It panders to the strict Salafi clerics and their philosophy of ‘progression through regression’ that now dominate Maldives society. It caters to their demands for a legal system in the Maldives based on Sharia alone. This is a demand expressed by the whole spectrum of Salafis in the Maldives from the apolitical to the radicals and <a href="http://www.dhivehisitee.com/people/maldives-fighters-in-syria-warns-government/" target="_blank">the violent ‘Jihadists’ who have emigrated to Syria</a>. The Supreme Court decision will appease them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It also panders to the overlords who facilitate, finance and continue to groom Maldivian Muslims to become Salafis: Saudi Arabia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The noose around Humam’s neck will put an end to not just his life but to two problems the government encounters: rumours of President Yameen’s involvement in Afrasheem’s murder that just won’t die; and accusations that it is not following the path of ‘true Islam’, i.e, Saudi-led Salafi Islam.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is still a significant part of Maldivian society today, like me, horrified by the Supreme Court decision which <a href="http://www.dhivehisitee.com/people/maldives-fighters-in-syria-warns-government/" target="_blank">ignored even the last-minute pleas by the murdered victim’s family</a> for a temporary reprieve. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We should understand this verdict is a harbinger of things to come: a society characterised by injustice, faux piety, and appeasement of the radical. There was a time when none of us could have imagined life in Maldives dominated by strict Salafi ideology. Today it is a lived truth. Tomorrow seems likely to be totally ruled by it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.dhivehisitee.com/executive/maldives-state-ready-to-kill-humam-and-a-way-of-life/" target="_blank"><b>Click here to read the full article</b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Source: Dhivehi Sitee, Azra Nassem, June 24, 2016</div><span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size: small;">- Report an error, an omission:<a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com" target="_blank"> deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a></span> <span style="font-size: small;"> </span> <span style="font-size: small;"> - Follow us on <b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank">Facebook</a> </b>and <b><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank">Twitter</a></b></span>

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Humam being brought to court In the early hours of the morning on the 19th day of Ramadan, as most of the country slept, the Maldives Suprem...

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