People of Maldives should support a victimised Sri Lankan father to reunite with his 2-year-old Maldivian daughter by urging their government to allow him to visit Maldives says
Muheed Jeeran
International Human Rights Activist
Speaking to Maldives Dispatch muheed stated that Sri Lankan national Nadeesh initially approached him in May 2024 through a mutual contact to seek my intervention to support him against his rights violation case.
“On 25th May 2024, I received a phone call from Nadeesh, who was detained at Male airport in the Maldives, and he was in a helpless situation where his lawyer in the Maldives, too, was prevented from meeting him. He was facing an immigration-related issue where Nadessh was denied entry to the Maldives”
He was treated like a dog by the airport authorities in the Maldives as his Maldivian lawyer witnessed his unfortunate state of how they have physically assaulted Nadeesh. He was forcefully removed and thrown inside the plane bare-bodied. I guided him from Male to Colombo airport on how he should proceed to make a human rights violation case later by collecting documents of evidence.
The next day Nadeesh arrived at BIA airport in Sri Lanka, and then he was admitted to the hospital through airport police instruction in Colombo. After he was discharged from hospital, I had the opportunity to meet Nadeesh for the first time in my life, who came to seek my support to fight his case. Prior to meeting Nadeesh, I posted a Facebook post related to his male airport harassment incident; later, a few random people privately contacted me to persuade me to stop supporting Nadeesh; that includes his aunt from his mother’s side and his ex-wife too. After I was reading their long letters, I had a second thought about supporting his case, but as a human rights activist, I can’t prevent him from meeting me in person.
I met Nadeesh in person, and I was listening to his very emotional story, but my mind was reading that negative information I read in those long letters that really made me believe their version, not Nadeesh’s.
Nadeesh was meeting me frequently to seek my support up until today, and that made me understand his personal life and what type of wonderful personal character he has. He is a wonderful human and a down-to-earth person.
I understood one thing: Nadeesh lost his mother’s love when he was a child and lost his father when he was at the age of 9. Nadeesh doesn’t want his daughter to lose her father’s love, as he knows the pain from his own life experience. He frequently reminds me why he wants to reunite with his daughter. He has no close relatives to comfort him, and he is living his life alone. To be honest, Nadeesh could have taken his life if he had not met me, as he was emotionally down and having difficulty bearing his own pain of missing his daughter. He always reminds me that it was I who made him be a strong person to fight back.
Nadeesh is living here in Sri Lanka with sleepless nights to achieve his only target: to visit Maldives to see his daughter.
Nadeesh was under our guidance to become a whistleblower to expose the Maldives’ ex-controller general of immigration’s corruption and misuse of power to prove Nadeesh too became the victim of misuse of power by the ex-controller general of immigration, Shammaan Waheed.
Nadeesh has no intention to attack the Maldivian government or authorities. He took that stand to prove he was a victim of the influential official’s dirty work. After the recent arrest of ex-Controller General of Immigration Shammaan Waheed has been proven he was actually misusing his powers.
Nadeesh wants compassion from the Maldivian government and their people to make his daughter see her father. I personally hurt to see the plight of Nadeesh, as his case has become a personal and emotional case to me. I have to answer to the Almighty if I don’t fight for this humanitarian cause more than human rights. I am urging the people of Maldives to support him, as believing in one deception will become a regret one day that cannot be reversed muheed stated.
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