The minister of Islamic Affairs Dr. Abdel Majeed Abdel Bari has said that the ministry is obliged with responsibilities from president to rehabilitate the prisoners of Himandhoo in Maafushi Jail. He said they were given the responsibility by president under special amnesty to the prisoners by the president.
Speaking to Voice of Maldives Dr. Majeed said under the clemency by president to the prisoners from Himandhoo who held up police with radicalism, the ministry is seeking ways to rehabilitate them with preaches and to remove any confusion fabricated on them on religion. He said a meeting with them was held in jail. But did not give any detail of the meeting.
President announced clemency to Himandhoo prisoners in Maafushi Jail on February 4 and offered amnesty to help them become useful citizens through the special envoy of the president who was lost from media after president took office in 2008 and the former parliamentarian Hassan Afeef who is now the political advisor to the president. Afeef said that the prisoners will embrace the clemency beginning this week.
source:haamadaily
