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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, né le 29 décembre 1937, est un homme d'État maldivien, président de la République des Maldives du 11 novembre 1978 au 11 novembre 2008, date à laquelle Mohamed Nasheed lui succède.

En 2018, près de dix ans après son départ de la présidence, et un an après avoir rejoint les rangs de l'opposition, dirigée par son ex-rival Nasheed, il est arrêté sous ordre de son demi-frère, Abdulla Yameen Abdul Gayoom, au pouvoir depuis 2013. Il est ensuite libéré peu après la défaite de celui-ci à la présidentielle de septembre 2018, remportée par Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, et que Gayoom soutenait. Wikipedia  

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom: Citations en anglais

“These people where inciting people to violence. That is not allowed in any country, in any democracy. You don't allow that in the United Kingdom, you don't allow that in the United States, or anywhere in the world.”

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

BBC World interview (2003)

“I think our human rights record is very good. … there is no systematic human rights abuses in the Maldives, there are no arbitrary arrests and people are tried in open court and they have access to lawyers.”

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

BBC World interview (2003)

“When asked about why the opposition members were arrested, Gayyoom replied "Violence, Violence, Violence"”

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

BBC World interview (2003)

“Yes, because that conceals their character. You don't know who you are talking to. Who you are dealing with. So, the face should be seen. That is even in Islam, even during the time of the holy Prophet Mohammed, women used to have bare faces. I mean women did not cover their faces.”

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

When asked by al jazeera journalist, Juliana Ruhfus (in an interview on 8 August 2007) that there is a law (in Maldives) that women are not allowed to wear a dress that only shows the eyes.
2007

“My main objective has been to raise the standard of living of the people, to achieve social and economic progress.”

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Maumoon Abdul Gayoom

BBC World interview (2003)