processprocessprocess: Graph showing: Press Freedom Index (Rank & Score) for Maldives from 2003 to 2012. Data sourced from: http://en.rsf.org - Reporters Without Borders Maldives (73rd) showed up the weakness of press freedom there (Asia-Pacific area). A climate of religious intolerance prevailed in the Maldives, where media organizations were subjected to threats by the authorities and had to deal with an Islamic affairs ministry bent on imposing the Sharia to the detriment of free expression.  http://en.rsf.org/IMG/CLASSEMENT_2012/C_GENERAL_ANG.pdf

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Graph showing: Press Freedom Index (Rank & Score) for Maldives from 2003 to 2012. Data sourced from: http://en.rsf.org - Reporters Without Borders

Maldives (73rd) showed up the weakness of press freedom there (Asia-Pacific area). A climate of religious intolerance prevailed in the Maldives, where media organizations were subjected to threats by the authorities and had to deal with an Islamic affairs ministry bent on imposing the Sharia to the detriment of free expression. 

http://en.rsf.org/IMG/CLASSEMENT_2012/C_GENERAL_ANG.pdf