Yameen Rasheed

[1] He studied in Bangalore Presidency College and received a Best Outgoing Student Award and did his Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA) there as well.

[1] While he was working at the Maldives Stock Exchange, he started his own blog called The Daily Panic, where overtime he amassed a large following for his "droll reporting and biting satire" of Maldivian politics.

[4] Yameen was one of many people who led the 'Find Moyameeha' campaign to find Ahmed Rilwan Abdulla, his friend and journalist who was abducted and murdered.

[7][8] On 23 April 2017, Yameen Rasheed was found dead in his apartment staircase with multiple stabs on his neck, and chest.

[11][12] The government, including then-President of the Maldives Abdulla Yameen, condemned his death and had called upon independent state institutions to bring the perpetrators to justice.

[7][13] The then-Director General of UNESCO Irina Bokova condemned the attack and called on the Maldivian government to investigate.

[14] Sandya Eknelygoda, a human rights activist, protested along with others at the Embassy of the Maldives in Colombo where she held a red balloon and a placard.

[37] A secret witness has said that Yameen's murder was funded by people in Maldives and nobody has been investigated, arrested or charged for financing his death.