The first issue was published on 1 January 1979, under Mohamed Zahir Hussain's proprietorship,[2] who's a close friend of the President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom[citation needed] and has been serving Minister level positions of the government since 1978.
The newspaper frequently published investigative reports and political analyses, contributing to the shaping of democratic processes in the Maldives.
Two full-time journalists are stationed there to cover events in the southern atolls, and reporting is carried out by sending information via the World Wide Web.
[2] Civil Court on Saturday (2 April 2016) also that Haveeru shut down its online news website as well as all other branches of the company – which ownership is being disputed over.
[7][8] High Court ruled last September that Haveeru News Agency wasn't just the company's chairman Dr. Mohamed Zahir Hussain's.
[4] The court had ordered Haveeru to pay Farooq and Ibrahim Rasheed one fourth of the profit made by the company to date, each.
[5] The Civil Court issued an order for a temporary halt to Haveeru operations on Thursday in response to a lawsuit filed by Farooq and Ibrahim Rasheed.
[11] The Maldivian Democratic Party said in a statement “This is evidence of the government’s influence in judiciary and its atrocity," read in Dhivehi.
[15] On 3 July 2016, the Civil Court delivered a verdict over a legal dispute over the ownership of Haveeru, barring all employees from working at a media outlet in the country for 2 years.
[18] The Maldivian Democratic Party stated that the ban was a mockery of justice and criticized Yameen's government as being an obstacle to reforming and ensuring the freedom of judiciary.