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Maldives blogger stabbed to death in capital
Source: The Guardian and agencies
Maldives blogger stabbed to death in capital
Yameen Rasheed, who used his Daily Panic blog to poke fun at politicians,
found with stab wounds at his flat in Malé
Michael Safi and agencies
Sunday 23 April 2017 11.38 BST
A blogger who frequently satirised the Maldives’ political and religious establishment has been stabbed to death in the capital, the third media figure to be targeted in the Indian ocean archipelago in the past five years.
Yameen Rasheed, 29, was found early on Sunday in the stairwell of his apartment building in Malé with multiple stab wounds to his neck and chest. He died shortly after being taken to hospital, family members said.
His blog, The Daily Panic, had gathered a large following for its droll reporting and biting satire of what Rasheed called “the frequently unsatirisable politics” of the country, home to about 340,000 Sunni Muslims.
An IT professional by trade, Rasheed maintained the blog in his spare time, writing that he aimed to report “the unfiltered truth, the sickening facts, the gruesome details, and – because this is the Maldives – the painfully obvious”.
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Yameen Rasheed, who used his Daily Panic blog to poke fun at politicians,
found with stab wounds at his flat in Malé
Michael Safi and agencies
Sunday 23 April 2017 11.38 BST
A blogger who frequently satirised the Maldives’ political and religious establishment has been stabbed to death in the capital, the third media figure to be targeted in the Indian ocean archipelago in the past five years.
Yameen Rasheed, 29, was found early on Sunday in the stairwell of his apartment building in Malé with multiple stab wounds to his neck and chest. He died shortly after being taken to hospital, family members said.
His blog, The Daily Panic, had gathered a large following for its droll reporting and biting satire of what Rasheed called “the frequently unsatirisable politics” of the country, home to about 340,000 Sunni Muslims.
An IT professional by trade, Rasheed maintained the blog in his spare time, writing that he aimed to report “the unfiltered truth, the sickening facts, the gruesome details, and – because this is the Maldives – the painfully obvious”.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/23/maldives-blogger-yameen-rasheed-stabbed-to-death-in-capital
