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Text of report by Sri Lankan-based Maldivian Minivan News website on 7 May
Aishath Aniya, former deputy secretary-general of the opposition Maldivian Democratic Party, has accused the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs and President Gayoom of "religious hypocrisy".
Aniya was summoned to the Supreme Council, the country's highest religious authority, on Sunday [6 May] to discuss an article she wrote in Minivan Daily on 20 March, which argued women should not have to wear the buruga [head scarf].
After her interview, she told Minivan News "both the Supreme Council and the President have publicly indicated before women do not always have to wear buruga". She also said the Supreme Council had acted in an un-Islamic manner by having police arrest her.
Un-Islamic behaviour
"I question how Islamic it is for the Supreme Council to send police to my home and to have them search my bedroom when the Supreme Council have never formally asked me to attend,"...