Public Statements
Pakistan's Daily Times reports that Ibrahim Fauzee spoke out, for the first time following his 2005 release, on 31 October 2008. The Daily Times attributed Fauzee's comments to the electoral defeat of the Maldives leader Maumoon Abdul Gayoom. He attributed his detention to Gayoom.
Fauzee said that the Americans had allowed him to be interrogated by Maldives security officials. He said Maldives officials had interrogated him about whether he planned to challenge Gayoom. He blamed Gayoom's regime for not trying to secure his release earlier. And he said Maldivian security officials had kept him under surveillance.
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