Human Rights Watch: Maldives - Free Speech, Assembly Under Threat
July 15, 2020
July 15, 2020
NEW YORK, July 15 -- Human Rights Watch issued the following news release:
The Maldives government is enforcing restrictions on protests that violate fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said. New regulations also threaten civil society groups for supporting peaceful protests.
Migrant workers who have gone unpaid for months since the outbreak of Covid-19 have protested their living and work conditions as inhumane. About 100,000 migrant workers work in the Maldives, mo . . .
The Maldives government is enforcing restrictions on protests that violate fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said. New regulations also threaten civil society groups for supporting peaceful protests.
Migrant workers who have gone unpaid for months since the outbreak of Covid-19 have protested their living and work conditions as inhumane. About 100,000 migrant workers work in the Maldives, mo . . .