Male’-(Scene-16- 18 April) – After a fiercely fought battle over where to conduct the post-mortem of Hussain Solah, government has been forced to change their minds and allow them to take the body of Salah to Sri Lanka for autopsy. The decision comes because the deceased's family refuses to have an autopsy performed in Maldives under the auspices of the police.However, police did not give any information on the date when Solah's body will be airlifted to Colombo, nor details of procedures on how the postmortem will now be carried out following the victim's family's calls for an "independent body" to conduct the autopsy.The government is now undertaking all procedures necessary to facilitate the transfer of Solah's body to Sri Lanka, state-run Television Maldives quoted Foreign Minister Dr. Ahmed Shaheed as saying.
Husnu Suood, lawyer for Solah's family, yesterday said that though the government claims that it has decided to transfer Solah's body to Sri Lanka for a postmortem, the government has not officially indicated this decision to the family."But I have informal information that the government has decided not to conduct Solah's autopsy in Maldives," Suood said.The family lawyer said that he had appealed to the Sri Lankan embassy in Maldives to stop the two Sri Lankan pathologists from conducting the postmortem in Maldives at a time when the victim's family was against it.Suood also said that such an appeal had been made to the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, the Health Ministry and the Male Municipality as well.The chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Ahmed Saleem, said that he had called on the government not to undertake a postmortem without the express consent of the family. He said that he had asked the government to undertake the postmortem in a way that will be fair to all parties concerned. Maldives Police Service is presently fighting a public relations war as the opposition here is continuously pointing fingers at police for the gaps in information that seems to be missing from the time of Solah's release to the time of his mysterious and probable murder 36 hours later.
Husnu Suood, lawyer for Solah's family, yesterday said that though the government claims that it has decided to transfer Solah's body to Sri Lanka for a postmortem, the government has not officially indicated this decision to the family."But I have informal information that the government has decided not to conduct Solah's autopsy in Maldives," Suood said.The family lawyer said that he had appealed to the Sri Lankan embassy in Maldives to stop the two Sri Lankan pathologists from conducting the postmortem in Maldives at a time when the victim's family was against it.Suood also said that such an appeal had been made to the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, the Health Ministry and the Male Municipality as well.The chairman of the Human Rights Commission, Ahmed Saleem, said that he had called on the government not to undertake a postmortem without the express consent of the family. He said that he had asked the government to undertake the postmortem in a way that will be fair to all parties concerned. Maldives Police Service is presently fighting a public relations war as the opposition here is continuously pointing fingers at police for the gaps in information that seems to be missing from the time of Solah's release to the time of his mysterious and probable murder 36 hours later.
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