Rilwan’s abduction: court schedules next hearing for Sunday
The last two hearings were cancelled due to a failure to produce witnesses
Missing journalist Ahmed Rilwan
A court hearing on two suspects charged over the alleged abduction of journalist Ahmed Rilwan has been scheduled for Sunday, 3pm.
The last two hearings were cancelled due to a failure to produce witnesses.
In total, three have been charged with terrorism over Rilwan’s disappearance, but two are now being tried after the third suspect, Mohamed Suaid, reportedly fled to Syria and died.
Aalif Rauf and Mohamed Nooradeen are currently being tried for allegedly abducting Rilwan near his apartment building in Hulhumale’ in the early hours of 8 August 2014. The state alleged that the suspects had carried off Rilwan inside a car. Rauf and Nooradeen currently remain free.
In the hearing on April 8, two witnesses testified seeing Nooradeen driving a red car in Hulhumale’ around the time Rilwan went missing. The witnesses, who use to work with Nooradeen, recounted Nooradeen telling them that the car belonged to Alif Rauf.
