On November 17, a Presidential Commission formed to investigate enforced disappearances and unresolved murders submitted its report to Parliamentary committee, reports Maldives Independent. The report confirmed that a hardline group affiliated with Al-Qaeda had killed MP Afrasheem Ali, a moderate religious scholar, in October 2012 and abducted and murdered Maldives Independent journalist Ahmed Rilwan in August 2014. Following the reveal of the report, Parliament’s security services committee has decided to launch further inquiry about the jihadi organization headed by Mazeed and Somith Mohamed and its influence in Maldives.
The Presidential Commission report also stated that religious conservative NGO Jamiyyathul Salaf have been encouraging terrorism in Maldives. The NGO well-known for its extremist ideology were responsible for sending radicalised youth to fight in Syria and Iraq and inciting hatred against MP Afrasheem Ali for his liberal ideas that subsequently led to his brutal murder in October 2012. Based on the report, the parliamentary committee has been recommended to take action against NGO Salaf.