Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2015-04-29-Speech-3-1303-000"
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"en.20150429.150.3-1303-000"2
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"Madam President, in a country better known for tourism rather than militancy, sadly human rights and democracy in the Maldives are deteriorating at an alarming rate with rising Wahhabi-Salafism as an influence and political tensions. Peaceful protestors are being arrested and critical media outlets in civil society are being silenced, whilst the judicial system is being manipulated to imprison opposition politicians.
The recent arrest and conviction of the former President Mohamed Nasheed, the first democratically elected President of the Maldives, who did so much in the past to raise the plight of inundation his country faces from climate change, is just one example of selective justice and corruption in a politicised judiciary. It has been reported that his trial clearly failed to meet national and international standards of justice.
My group, the ECR, calls on the Government of the Maldives to immediately and unconditionally release former President Nasheed and to take the necessary steps to reform the judiciary in order to restore confidence in the rule of law. The introduction of delayed death sentences, now under Sharia law, on minors is of the gravest concern. The significant rise in the number of Maldivians joining ISIS has also created a rise in Jihadi radicalisation within that small country’s society.
This resolution calls for warnings to be given to EU tourists visiting the Indian Ocean tourist destination. I do hope, as a Commonwealth country, the Maldives can soon be brought back from the brink."@en1
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