It is not known at this stage whether Nazim was subjected to any coercion or if it was his wish and not the government's decision to turn this extremely private act into a media event.
The fundamental issue of human rights violation by the state remains and Maldives Dissent calls for a full, external, and independent inquiry not only into the chain of events but also why the human rights commission remained silent.
Meanwhile religious hardline contributers to the blog Addu Community have launched a witch-hunt by cut-pasting comments from Facebook profiles that it says are anti-Islam.
