Nasheed says talks without forensic evidence regarding Afrasheem murder are political

Former President Mahomet Nasheed has said that the talks without forensic evidence regarding the murder of Dr. Afrasheem Ali, MP for Ungoofaaru Constituency, are all political.

Nasheed’s statements have come at a time when the Government has said that remarkable progress has been made into the high-profile murder that occurred on the 1st of October this year and which shook the whole nation.

About a week ago, President Dr. Mohamed Waheed Hassan Manik said, in Ungoofaaru, that the police had gone a long way in uncovering the killers and that they would soon reveal the facts discovered by the investigation.

Last night, Minister of Home Affairs Dr. Muhammad Jameel Ahmad said, while speaking in a ceremony held at Kaafu Thulusdhoo, that the killers of Dr. Afrasheem, one of the most prominent Islamic religious scholars of this country and one of the only three doctorates in Islamic sciences in the country, had been identified. Dr. Jameel also said that Dr. Afrasheem’s murder involved happenings over which the whole society should be seriously concerned, although he did not give any details of what he meant. He also promised that the killers would soon be brought before justice.

Former President Nasheed had consistently expressed his concern over the police investigation of this issue from the time some of his party-activists were arrested on suspicion of being involved in the matter. Nasheed had demanded the release of those arrested, and has criticized the police over the issue a number of times, never giving a factual basis for his opinion.

Nasheed made a tweet today saying that talks without forensic evidence regarding the murder of Dr. Afrasheem Ali, MP for Ungoofaaru Constituency, are all political.

Dr. Afrasheem was murdered at H. Funvilu, his rented private residence in Malé, as he entered the main gate of the building. The Maldives Police Service has also engaged the assistance of police from the USA and Singapore, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, USA. Personnel from these are working with Maldivian police in the investigations.