Fourteen individuals are currently under travel ban, following the probe conducted by the presidential Commission on Investigation of Murders and Enforced Disappearances into the disappearance of journalist Ahmed Rilwan, local media reported Tuesday.
Daily newspaper Mihaaru cited credible sources that authorities seized the passports of 14 individuals. There are no further details pertaining to this development.
The Commission on Investigation of Murders and Enforced Disappearances last Sunday disclosed several findings into the disappearance of Rilwan, who has been missing since August 8, 2014.
At the press conference, the commission's President Husnu al-Suood declared that most of the evidence indicated that Rilwan was murdered by a local extremist group affiliated with al-Qaeda.
According to the commission's president, Rilwan was abducted near his apartment in reclaimed suburb Hulhumale'. Rilwan was then transferred to a dinghy and then beheaded aboard a marine vessel. However, Suood said that disparities between different testimonies prevented the aforementioned evidence from being sufficient to prove a murder.
Suood further stated that the commission identified Rilwan's abductors, and the vessels along with their owners. The commission's investigation also unearthed that two officers employed at Police intelligence had attempted to prove that Rilwan went abroad.
The commission's investigative report on the case has since been presented to Speaker of Parliament Mohamed Nasheed, and publicised on the parliament's website.
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