It is alleged that violent clashes between inmates and prison officers have erupted at Maafushi prison over the last few days as inmates reportedly attempted to inform prison officers about the illness of a cell-bound inmate.
”On Monday night an inmate’s medical condition appeared to become serious and the other prisoners tried to call to the prison officers, but they never responded. So the inmates knocked the prison bars to get the attention of prison officers,” a person familiar with the incident told Minivan News on condition of anonymity. ”Then a squad of prison officers came to the cell and beat down those who shook the bars.”
He claimed that violence again erupted yesterday afternoon after prison officers armed with metal and wooden batons came inside the cell leading to violent clashes between prison officers and the inmates.
”One inmate got a broken shoulder, another inmate broke his nose and another injured his eyes because prison officers hit and broke the glasses he was wearing,” he alleged. ”Nobody cares for the inmates, only some politicians speak about it, but only for political purposes and not with the intention of correcting anything.”
He also claimed that recently, inmates had demanded to see the prison warden over allegations that prisoners who were kept in isolation for hours were also tortured with batons.
”There has never been any treatment programs held inside the prison, all that the prison officers do is threaten and torture,” claimed the anonymous source.
The source also claimed that fellow prisoners were expected to very soon “stand up for the nation” and reveal the secrets hidden behind the work of the political figures in the country.
”Infamous ‘Chicka’ [Ibrahim Nafiz] will also be out from the prison one day, he will tell the people publicly about the work former Commissioner of Police Brigadier Adam Zahir assigned him to do,” he said. ”It would not be kept as a secret anymore.”
Head of Department and Penitentiary and Rehabilitation Services [DPRS] Moosa Azim told Minivan News that clashes between inmates and prison officers take place very often and that it was ”nothing too serious.”
”Everyday there will be a clash between the inmates and prison officers,” said Azim. ”We give the highest priority to the safety of the inmates, then the safety of our staffs.”
He said that he had no information about the clash that occurred yesterday and Monday night.
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What are we to believe? It's not like we really know what's going on. People still believe in 'news' apparently written thousands of years ago. At least ask one question.
so f***ed up this is.
As government officers, we are in a position to substantiate these allegations.
The source said ”One inmate got a broken shoulder, another inmate broke his nose and another injured his eyes because prison officers hit and broke the glasses he was wearing,” he alleged. ”Nobody cares for the inmates, only some politicians speak about it, but only for political purposes and not with the intention of correcting anything.”
So, it is up to Azim, head of DPRS, to see if anyone has these injuries. It won't be too difficult to establish facts, especially when we are in government.
Failing this, Azim should step down and let someone more responsible do the job!
If these allegations were true, we have to do a public inquiry and charge the culprits and learn lessons from this so as to stop this from happening again.
All governments struggle to deal with prisoners, the most democratic of them, deal with them 'most' humanely!
Mujuthaaz Fahumy should be put in charge of the prison. with the large amounts of money we're giving him Mujuthaaz owes it to us.
please our democratic government make a secure jail .. give the contractors an island to develop as a resort if they are willing to construct a maximum security jail for free .. like the dhathuru fathuru ge nizaamu ..
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What a useless source are you referring to...? There are countless amount of convicts walking on the streets as fugitives when taken to Male under "medical" reasons. The first time this happened the convicts (don't call them inmates, call them convicts) gave up their right to any form of medical treatment. They should have thought of all this before they went the crime spree destroying and scarring lives of innocent people. I do not shed any tears for the conditions of the convicts... This ciountry is in such a bad situation BECAUSE they are not properly punished.
I have heard of stories of prisoners breaking their joints just to come to Male so that they meet friends n others who provide them with drugs and phones. They import drugs inside the jail through clothes sent to prisoners sewn into the hems and even inside translation of the Holy Quran. (Pages cut and phone placed inside). Prisoners talk of not getting medical services. They burnt the whole medical centre and other buildings in Maafushi. Some people who lost homes to the Tsunami are waithing for homes.Tsunami is a natural thing. But burning the jail is manmade. How much money can be spent on these prisoners forsaking the needs of the common people. My suggestion is we follow the Islamic shareeath.
where is the hrcm? does it still exist? in the past, i have found the hrcm voicing its concern at every little such incident in the jail but where is its voice now?
I have reasons to believe that most of the incarcerated (And I say most, not all) deserve being imprisoned.
They do not, however, deserve to be tortured. (Yes, I'm using that word.)
And absolutely no one deserves to be judged under the barbaric rules developed by howling fanatics in a baked desert in the medieval times.
We aren't that inhuman. I don't think I'd get satisfaction by seeing people killed every day, or face life-long tribulations of having a hand lobbed off.
enough!!!! we can go on regarding these perves over and over again!!!
Hmmm. Don't knows whose words to believe. Inmates who are in jail after taking rights of other people or corrupt penitentiary officers.