(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has welcomed cyber-dissident Fathimath Nisreen’s release from prison on 25 October 2004. However, the organisation denounced the news that she would be transferred within a few days to Feeail Island, south of the capital, to resume serving a five-year “banishment” sentence. Nisreen was detained on 13 August in the wake of a […]
(RSF/IFEX) – RSF has welcomed cyber-dissident Fathimath Nisreen’s release from prison on 25 October 2004. However, the organisation denounced the news that she would be transferred within a few days to Feeail Island, south of the capital, to resume serving a five-year “banishment” sentence.
Nisreen was detained on 13 August in the wake of a pro-democracy rally.
“We call for the release of Fathimath and the three other cyber-dissidents still being held by the regime,” RSF said.
Nisreen is in good health, but said she had been “psychologically disturbed” by her arrest and the torture she witnessed while in detention. Two of the three other detained cyber-dissidents, Mohamed Zaki and Naushad Waheed, are presently under house arrest. The third, Ahmad Didi, who has serious heart problems, has been transferred back to Dhoonidhoo prison after spending several days in hospital.
